http://www.choike.org a portal on Southern civil societies http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1166.html The current resurgence of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance represents a major threat not only to the rights of the victims but also to the development of democracy and social cohesion. This threat has attained new and alarming heights in the context of the current global “war on terror”, as a result of intellectual legitimization of racist and xenophobic ideas via public discourse, and the translation into public policies by mainstream political parties of perspectives that were formally promoted by far-right political movements. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3146.html Due to the degrading situation slaves were subjected to in Brazil, they became organized in Quilombos communities, that is, ethnic territories of resistance as an alternative social organization to the exploitation of black labour. They represented a major issue from the early African pockets of resistance to colonial slavery, re-emerging in times of the Brazilian Republic with the Brazilian Negro Front (1930/1940) and returning to the political scene at the end of the 1970s, during the country’s redemocratization process.