This study aims to analyze the new laborism s project conducted by the Democratic Labour Party (PartidoDemocráticoTrabalhista). It addresses the political party s origins, identity formation, negotiations and conflicts, political performance, as well as the challenges faced throughout the 1980s. This is the period of the end of the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and the political-party reorganization in Brazil. For almost twenty years, laborism (trabalhismo), a hegemonic tradition in the country since Getúlio Vargas regime (1930s), was left to ostracism. PTB, Brazilian Laborism Party, was extinct, party members were persecuted and went to exiled. It was the case of Leonel Brizola, the main inheritor of getulism, who lived in exiled in Uruguay and later in Portugal. From the Portuguese capital, Brizola lead the process of the new laborism project. Finally, this study emphasizes the weight of political tradition in Brazil by investigating how the PDT sought to rescue pre-1964 labor political ideology. In doing so, Brizola gave new meanings to laborism (trabalhismo) in the context of the Brazilian redemocratization.