disgusted by the totally unprincipled block on offer the PMDB, well-known CUTERUIS personalities supporting a candidate for governor who recognised gangster totally compromised with the military Almost overnight, they swung to арparently viable alternative to the left, Brizola (the PT been weak in Has always Rio).
Brizola is pushing
form a new Socialist Party with the left of the PMDB and with the PT. This project will be helped by the likely formation Liberal Party by the rightare a couple of extracts from his speech:
same bag.
Brazilian working class. You could PDS) and who today are OCEN hear a lot "democratic front" as who dominated Brazilian tury) .. It was this same power over to American imperialism, successful revolution of 1952 Bolivia as a national hero, sold out American which behind the working class's back.
wing leaders PMDB. It is true that some in the PT may be attracted by this idea But class independence is so central to the PT's ponncal locaun that seems very unlikely that asked about this us section of the Asked about before the elections, Lula said, Look, the proposal of Brizola and the P* completely different. The socialism Brizola preaches only exists inside his head I mean you can't make socialism in capitalist society, and Brizola has never suggested changing capitalism.
The real struggle after the clections lies cisewhere. Faced with a linancial economic Reagan is also scheduled to visit Costa Rica, Nicaragua's SOULICIT "neighbour", in early December to further promote the counterrevolutionary "Forum for Peace and Democracy.
Set up in October this *Forum' was launched by US isolate and the revolutionary forces fighting in El Salvador under the leadership of the FMLN-FDR. Countries PHOTO: invited to meeing included Salvador, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, all reliable clients of the White House The 'Forum' was Reagan's answer to an initiative taken earlier by Venezuela and Mexico, two countries friendly to the revoltItion, who jointly offered the Nicaraguan-Honduran CORTICE Reagan's visit to Costa Rica was also intended to Socialist Challenge THIS was the main slogan at the Workers Party's final pre-election rally in Sao Paulo, one weak before polling day. 100,000 or more loca PT supporters gathered outside one of the city's football stadiums and heard the party president, Lula, himself a former tool-maker. explain why the PT refused to support the bourgeois opposition front, the PMDB, and the importance of strengthening the PT as an independent party of the working class. Here *The PDS and the PMDB are flour out of the They won't change things for the see this ab soratory creamy wavering around in this campaign in the countryside you'd find in one place a big ran. chowner who was candidate for the PDS, and ther another big ranchowner who was candidate for the And when you look closely at these two parties you'll find people who yesterday were in ARENA (the old government party and predecessor of the in the PMDB, and others who yesterday were in the MDB (the forerunner of the PMDB) and who today are in the PDS - these politicians change parties like they change their of talk bone is it were historical novelty for this country. I'd just like to re. mind the press who are here, as well as all the com. rades in this square, that this story of a democratic front is the same one that made the communists in 1945 believe in Getulio Vargas (the populist dictator the mid canpolicy of a democratic front which in 1957 made the Bolivian people hand after their And this same figure who today is going back to 1957 DUODH shouldn't believe in this story of a front, because the only kind of front that makes any sense to us is working class at its head, leading it. Anything else is just more dirty trick:
crisis of massive proportions (certainly as grave as Mexico's) the government will be forced to increase its dependence on the IMF and impose yet more savage austerity measures, with dire effects on already squeezed working class Was dea It is on the capacity for industrial resistance, the success of developing independent union congress (CUT that the future of the PT now largely depends. It is on developing and coordinating its so-far inade quate intervention in this area that the PT will have to concentrate if it is to succeed in extending the class consciousness and combativity of Brazilian workers. coincide with a major joint US-Honduran military exercise within stone's throw of the Nicaraguan border. the furore Following the Newsweek article the manouvres have postponed Managua this did automaticall an imminent invasion was any less likely Since the militar build-up by the US in the region, started during the Carter presidency, part of the region is withir very close range of US armed forces.
The Sorcert movement throughout Burop co-ordinated action to take place in each country on 4 December to publicise the threat to the місягавия people London on that day there will be a picket at Downing Sor hate a risen Thatche message *No to US intervention in For a peaceful Christmas in Central America'. 3 December 1982 page 9
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