The present article discusses how Democratic Popular Committees and Neighborhood Associations were created, by the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, specially in the city of São Paulo, and tries to understand the connections between these organizations and the new political parties and leaders that appeared in the postwar years. It also suggests that it was because of these relations that such organizations were for a long time disregarded as a research topic.
neighborhood associations; citizenship; political culture; social movements; labor