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This article provides an analysis of the struggles of women domestic workers in Brazil, based on two field studies. We examine the imbrication of racism, sexism and class inequality in their lives and struggles, and in their relationship with the black and feminist movements and workers' unions. While this intersection of social relations produces multiple forms of oppression, it is also a force for the collective struggles of domestic workers, enabling them to form alliances that led to the enactment of a law guaranteeing the category's rights in 2015. However, the intersectional nature of their claims has also led to tensions and conflicts with their allies, which limit the scope of their success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the results of a research on gender relations in people's movements conducted in two working class neighbourhoods in Argentina and Brazil by a network of local researchers within the framework of Unesco's MOST programme. The research shows that women actively participate in the neighbourhood's organisations to resist, organise services, and undertake activities. While confronted to multiple difficulties, they claim and open new spaces of negotiation and intervention, questioning the power relations between men and women at the domestic and neighbourhood levels. This article discusses how another way of thinking and doing politics in these territories is under construction and how these women engage in feminist practices of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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L'article traite le thème de la mondialisation et la réponse de diverses associations et individus face au libéralisme économique. L'auteur mentionne le Forum économique mondial, qui a eu lieu du 23 au 28 janvier 2003 au Davos en Suisse. L'article discute une réunion des militantes antimondialistes au Porto Allegre, Brésil. L'auteur discute le besoin de plus de multilatéralisme suite à la décision des États-Unis de faire la guerre contre l'Irak.

The Protestant Pentecostal phenomenon, rather recent in Brazil (1910), has taken root in the popular classes. Alter an initial period of implantation (1910-1930), its real growth began in the thirties. Its main progress though has to be situated at the contemporary period of Brazilian capitalism. During this period, a new element has appeared: the popular masses. Little by little, these come to participate, at least partially, in the national life, under the influence of the dominant groups and the populist leaders. This means that the popular classes are somehow present at the social and political levels. The Pentecostal movement has to be seen within the background of this new element. We can thus observe a first aspect, i.e. the links by which this religious phenomenon is attached to the historically determined social structure. These links are of a structural nature. Through them, the Pentecostal movement is attached to the class structure of the capitalistic Brazilian society as it appears today. In this regard, at the same time as the class relations determine this phenomenon, they also make it possible to consider it as one of the components of the capitalistic society. This first step leads us, then, to the study of the religious structure of the Pentecostal movement, as it is situated in the social super-structure. Even though it is determined by the economical infra-structure, Pentecostalism keeps its specific character, which we shall attempt to analyze from the point of view of its religious structure. Finally, we shall attempt to study the ideology of the Pentecostal movement and the way it, in turn, acts upon the first determining factor. We shall analyze in particular the function of this ideology in its relation to the dominant ideology. These are the three points which constitute the dialectical perspective under which we shall approach the Pentecostal movement in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, based upon a survey carried out in Brazil, is a study of the charismatic renewal as it presents itself within Brazilian Catholicism. First of all, it poses the question of the religious status of the members of this movement: the empirical data which have been gathered indicate clearly that the charismatic renewal is not a movement of conversion, but of re-activation of Catholic spirituality. When we approach the problem of the social bases of the Catholic charismatic movement in Brazil, it appears that these bases are composed of the culturally and professionally priviledged social strata, In this regard, the Charismatic renewal is clearly distinguished from the "popular Catholicism" widely present in the subordinate classes of society. The central theme of the Catholic charismatic renewal is that of liberation in Jesus-Christ. But this liberation is viewed in almost exclusively optimistic and intimistic terms. This corresponds well to the social position of the members of this movement which is composed of people whose basic needs--food, lodging, clothing--are satisfied. Does this necessarily lead to the conclusion that the Catholic charismatic renewal in Brazil is merely a spiritual movement? This is by no means the case, for its function within Brazilian Catholicism as a whole could well be that of opposition to the liberation movement as it is conceived in basic Church communities. It thus would oppose the religious movement which is developing in a popular milieu and which views the question of the Kingdom of God as a reality which occurs within history, through the struggle against diverse forms of oppression and injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]