When the political literature climbs the hill: opposition groups, slums and culture from the analysis of a book on the Borel

The aim of this paper is to discuss the action of certain groups opposed to the military regime in the slums of Rio de Janeiro during the opening, from the case of Borel. In 1980, was released a memoir of a former local resident. Edited by a library linked to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), the work was the result of an interaction between actors linked to other groups, and was subject to the construction of different meanings and political uses. Thus, to analyze this situation is to contribute to the understanding of how these groups were acting in spaces of public housing, how they related and how they adopted actions in the field of culture as a means of political intervention in a period of rebuilding democracy in Brazil