Elitism, intolerance and discrimination: the retraction of working class deputies of Minas Gerais State in 1964

Abstract

This paper analyses the drastic and brief process that led to dismissal of three workers provincial’s deputies in Minas Gerais House of Representatives, on Brazil, April of 1964. The event occurred a few days after military coup d’état that knocked down President João Goulart’s national constitutional government. Deputies fired were effective workers and labour movement activists and these social and political origins had indeed great influence on the violent and informal character of the process they suffered, in which was lacked any real right of self defense. The documents concerning the event were displayed to public’s knowledge only 34 years after 1964.