The political cartoon in the libertarian journal A Plebe (1947-1949)

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Zélia Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/13475
• topic: Libertarian press; Libertarian cartoon; A Plebe newspaper; Anticlericalism; Caricature; Brazil; Imprensa libertária; Caricatura libertária; Jornal A Plebe; Anticlericalismo; Caricatura; Brasil

This article discusses the meanings of imagistic representations (drawings, cartoons) published in A Plebe (The Plebs), from May 1947 to May 1949, the last period of the Edgard Leuenroth’s headship. Created in 1917, the newspaper, supported by libertarian principles, set up as a public sphere suited for the proletarian world because of discussing the problems that workers were facing in their daily lives. The paper printed whipping criticisms against the country's elites and fought, without respite, the capitalist system – qualified as parasitic, violent and expropriator –, supported by mystifying and equally violent enactments from its religious arm, expressed in the actions of the Catholic Church and whose struggle against was also systematic.