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PT leadership reply to Socialist Resistance petition Socialist Democracy tendency statement on explusions
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| Heloisa Helena | |
| In the early
1980s the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) was formed out of the massive
mobilisation around the metalworkers' strikes in the ABC industrial
complex in Sao Paolo. The party was a major breakthough for the
Brazilian workers; their own party independent of the capitaliists,
formed on a class struggle basis. However, in the 1990s, as a result of
severe defeats for the workers movement, the party leadership moved to
the right.
Now in government, in late 2003 the PT leadership moved to expel three senators who voted against the reform of the pension law. Before the expulsions, the PT leadership made the unusual move of replying to a petition against the explusions, organised by Socialist Resistance and signed by 1000 people internationally, including prominent figures like Noam Chomsky and Ken Loach. Click on the links above to learn more.
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