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	Workers Party (PT)(Brazil)
		According to Carlos Noronha, the flag of the party is red with a white 5-pointed star centered and the red initials PT superimposed on the star.
		Brazil uses a system of electronic balloting, where each party is attributed a number and then voters punch the number of their preferred candidate into a special machine.
		About the PT The first independent labor party established in Brazil, the PT is a trade union-based grass-roots party embracing factions running from Trotskyite to democratic socialist.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br}pt.html (810 words)

	Workers' Party (Brazil) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The PT was legally recognized as a political party by Brazilian Electoral Superior Court on February 11, 1982.
		The relative changes in the political orientation of his party (PT), the Government and Lula himself were well received by the majority of the population, but as a historically more radical party, PT has been suffering from internal struggles with members that followed the old standards.
		In a recent move by the radical wing of the Party, sometimes called the rebels by the media, 112 members announced they are abandoning PT in the World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre, on January 30, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party_(Brazil) (863 words)

	Socialism Today - Testing Times for the Workers Party
		In Recife, Pernambuco, in Northeast Brazil, the PT responded to a radicalised strike of the state police force by attempting to distance itself from it.
		In general, the position of the party was not to prioritise attacking the federal government.
		The only effect of the relative pick-up in the economy in the second half of 2000 was an explosion of labour struggles as workers fought for compensation for the losses accumulated over the previous five years.
	www.socialismtoday.org /55/brazil.html (2691 words)

	Workers' Party (Brazil) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was officially founded by a group of intellectuals and workers in February, 10, 1980 at Colégio Sion(Sion High School) in (An ultramodern port city in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in South America) São Paulo.
		Recently, mass media has been harsh on the party, which has continuosly increased public expenses which ended up being translated to a higher tax load to the population.
		They also published a (A customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane) manifest entitled Manifest of the Rupture that states that PT is no longer an instrument of social transformation, but only an instrument of the status quo, continuing with references to the IMF and other economic and social issues.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/workers_party_(brazil)1.htm (531 words)

	Monthly Review: Building democratic socialism: the Partido Dos Trabalhadores in Brazil
		It was necessary to build a political party that would be flexible enough to include the different political views of those active in the grassroots and at the same time strong enough to compete for electoral office with bourgeois parties.
		It was also necessary to build a socialist party that would reflect the experience of workers in Brazil, building socialism from the day-to-day struggles in the workplace and in neighborhoods.
		The Workers' Party not only proposes to redistribute income with immediate economic reform programs, it is an orga ization for the empowerment of working people who, because of long standing patterns of discrimination and inequality, have been denied democratic participation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n4_v42/ai_9396661 (1299 words)

	Brazil's Workers' Party: The future for socialism?
		From 1977 to 1980, industrial workers, organized in illegal unions, undertook a series of militant strikes, including a general strike in 1980, that often spread from the auto plants to neighbouring industries.
		"The PT is a party born out of the consciousness that workers won after many decades of serving as a mass to be manipulated by bourgeois politicians and of listening to ballads of the supposed vanguard parties of the working class.
		From the beginning the party stressed that it was both a social movement, mobilizing workers, the poor and their allies to organize and fight for their rights, and a party dedicated to winning seats in the existing power structure.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/352-05-PT.html (1102 words)

	Brazil: Workers' Party Betrays Workers
		The PT is a party based on the working class, which in the past had proclaimed socialism as its aim and promised to repudiate Brazil’s massive foreign debts as well as radically redistribute the land.
		Revolutionaries must explain to their fellow workers that the union bureaucracy will try to hold back and betray the mass struggle in the interests of maintaining social stability and defending their privileged position in the system as brokers between the capitalists and workers.
		For example, in Brazil the police and soldiers have a certain tradition of struggle for their own interests that has led many workers to mistakenly think they are a legitimate part of the working-class and union movement.
	www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/brazilPR70.html (5385 words)

	Brazil's Workers Party government expels 'left' legislators
		She and other members of what is known in Brazil as the radical or “Shiite” wing of the PT have clashed with the party’s leadership since the 2002 presidential campaign.
		To push through these policies, the party has relied upon an increasingly rigid party regime, in which those who voice criticism of the government’s policies are threatened with disciplinary action.
		Lula and the PT are the instruments of the Brazilian ruling elite and the international financial institutions in imposing the full burden of Brazil’s economic crisis on the backs of the workers and the urban and rural poor.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/braz-d16.shtml (1435 words)

	Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - PT, the Workers' Party, on the Limelight - Brazilian Politics - April 2002
		Perhaps this showed signs of the party's growing confidence or perhaps Singer was brought in to make sure Lula does not deviate too much from the script and revert to his less disciplined ways.
		He told the meeting that the PT was a moderate party and pointed to the recent first primary in which party members had voted overwhelmingly for Lula as their candidate.
		Singer, who had not been made official spokesman at the time of the event, outlined the party's manifesto and stressed that, under a PT government, there would be no continuation of the policies of the Cardoso administration but a complete rupture.
	www.brazzil.com /p19apr02.htm (1846 words)

	Index: Articles by date
		Slovakia: Workers in Ruzomberok sacked for organising wage protest, 4 November 2004
		Brazil: 'Party for Socialism and Liberty' founded, 7 June 2004
		Brazil: Movement for a new workers’ party launched, 29 January 2004
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/cwi/map2004.html (4287 words)

	No end: the crisis of Brazil’s Workers’ Party Hilary Wainwright - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I had been to Brazil several times in a mood of hope, to write about the participatory political experiments of the PT and to engage in the World Social Forum hosted by the then-PT government of Porto Alegre.
		These included what amounts to the partial privatisation of an extremely unequal public-pensions system, which has left Brazil’s extreme social inequalities almost untouched; and the amendment of the country’s relatively radical (albeit contradictory) 1988 constitution to facilitate the creation of an independent bank with the freedom to raise interest rates as high as it wants.
		The steady strangling of democracy from within meant that the party lost all autonomy from the government; and this in turn closed down all the mechanisms linking the party to the social movements and therefore acting as a political channel for their expectations, their pressure and their anger.
	feeds.brazilnews.net /?rid=298cdfbaade7350b&cat=24437442923341f1&f=1 (2758 words)

	CorpWatch : BRAZIL: Workers Party's Lula Remains a Step Away from Presidency
		Lula, 57, leader of the leftist Workers Party (PT) and a former metalworker, gave his rivals a run for their money with his Lula President coalition that includes the right-leaning Liberal Party, and its Jos Alencar, textile mogul, as his vice-presidential candidate.
		Brazil is among the countries with the biggest gap between rich and poor, to the extent that sociologists often use the term "Brazilianization" to describe processes in other countries in which the poor distribution of wealth continues to worsen.
		Brazil suffers greater income disparity than Mexico and much more than Argentina, and poverty here is not a problem of wealth, but rather of its distribution, according to researchers.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=4310 (999 words)

	Workers' Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Workers' Party is a name used by various political parties throughout the world.
		United States of America - Workers Party of America, Workers Party, Workers Party, USA
		See also: Labour Party, Communist Workers Party, Socialist Workers' Party, United Workers' Party, List of political parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party (110 words)

	Brazil Workers' Party - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		The Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores--PT), the country's first independent labor party, is a unique party in Brazil.
		Since then the Workers' Party has grown steadily, doubling its Chamber of Deputies delegation in 1982, 1986, and 1990, while tripling the number of its state deputies at each election, except in 1994.
		The Workers' Party is divided into six factions along a left-right continuum.
	www.photius.com /countries/brazil/government/brazil_government_workers_party.html (516 words)

	Brazil's Workers Party chooses textile magnate as candidate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For Alencar, the problem was overcoming opposition from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Christian evangelical movement that forms the principal base of the PL, many of whose elected representatives are church leaders.
		The party also dispatched its senior economic advisor to New York and Washington recently to pledge a Lula government to the defense of private property and profit.
		The PL has also demanded that a Lula government retain the country’s current Central Bank president, Arminio Fraga, a former adviser to billionaire investor George Soros who is identified with a policy of astronomical interest rates that have mired the country in recession for the past four years.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jun2002/braz-j22.shtml (908 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Brazil's Workers Party envisages state investments in power sector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		09-12-02 Brazil's Workers Party (PT) envisages state investments in the power sector of $ 2 bn a year during its four-year term, which starts January 1, PT energy advisor Luiz Pinguelli said.
		The transition team for the future government has also been in touch with international sources of financing, including US investment banks, and all have expressed their willingness to work with the PT, Pinguelli said.
		The PT also plans to "renationalise" Brazil's national development bank BNDES, Pinguelli said, referring to a certain emphasis on lending to foreign companies that has prevailed at the bank in recent years.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntl30250.htm (394 words)

	Brazil: Workers' Party leads the polls \| Workers' Liberty
		Brazil’s neoliberal president Fernando Henriquez Cardoso was hoping Brazil’s World Cup glory might give his right-wing coalition a leg up in the forthcoming presidential elections.
		Brazil’s workers and landless people can not afford to pay off the debt incurred by corrupt dictators and doubled by the interest burden.
		The millions of workers and the landless in the MST (Movimento Sem Terra) who look to the Workers' Party to solve the crisis will not allow its take-over by business interests without a fight.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/212 (744 words)

	ABC News: Brazil Workers Party Suffers Major Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BRASILIA, Brazil Feb 15, 2005 — An outside challenger Tuesday won the coveted post of speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, handing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers Party their biggest political defeat since he took office in 2003.
		The election of Severino Cavalcanti of the small Progressive Party marked the first time in 20 years that a president's choice for the job has not been picked, said Congressman Arlindo Chingalia, the top Workers Party leader in the lower house.
		Silva, Brazil's first elected leftist president, cobbled together a coalition in Congress after taking office, but managed to anger members of his own party during his first two years by following orthodox economic policies while drawing criticism for falling short on promised social reforms.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=501221 (412 words)

	Brazil's Workers Party goes to court against the MSIA
		Exasperated with the pamphlet's broad distribution throughout the country, the PT took legal action against the MSIA, which is a Brazilian political movement associated with the ideas of American statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche.
		The PT stated that the pamphlet was a "politically fantasy-ridden, delirious and lying" publication, linking the party and its members to "a network of international drug-trafficking and terrorism which, according to its absurd thesis, seeks to destabilize governments and destroy sovereign states and their Armed Forces."
		In Brazil, Krieschke has made a career out of spreading the slanders of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), and he is also an intimate friend of the former Montonero leader, the Argentine Mario Firmenich, among others.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/1995/2245_pt_suit.html (390 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| 'Hear her breathe'
		In a country which has suffered some of the world's most brutal dictatorships, Lula and his Workers Party (PT) were establishing what friend and foe alike acknowledge is perhaps the most democratic government on the planet.
		After all, as Brazilians and their foreign guests were waving hundreds of Workers Party red flags and chanting Lula's name on Porto Alegre streets, the president himself could not stay.
		The Workers Party's municipal government in Porto Alegre has been a resounding success, introducing a form of participatory democracy that has earned the city UN recognition as a model of good government.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/623/in3.htm (1407 words)

	Brazil News 24/7 - Nothing But Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - Fresh news daily - English-language Magazine on Brazilian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Revelations of widespread corruption in the upper reaches of the Workers Party government in Brazil are a crushing betrayal of all who believed the Party's promises and posturing.
		The Workers Party was renowned for the dedication and high ethical standards of its activists, its strong base in the labor movement, and its internal democracy.
		The new President of the Workers Party is Tarso Genro, formerly mayor of Porto Alegre.
	www.brazzil.com /content/view/9342/76 (6194 words)

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	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Brazil cash row claims party head
		Mr Genoino's brother, Jose Guimaraes, represents the Workers' Party at state level in the north-east of Brazil.
		Repeatedly over the past month, the Workers' Party has denied allegations that it paid bribes to lawmakers in return for parliamentary support.
		Brazil's Lula defies his accusers (22 Jun 05
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/4668301.stm (346 words)

	Table of Contents
		Denmark - from Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark (APK)
		France - from the Communist Party of the Workers of France
		Tunisia - from the Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia
	www.mltranslations.org /contents.htm (243 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Workers Party is not just a quixotic band of idealists, but a potent and rapidly growing political force.
		The Workers Party has shown itself to be one of the more innovative political forces in the Western Hemisphere.
		With PT Party encouragement, the city of Santos, in São Paulo state, was the first in Brazil to address the alarming spread of AIDS-primarily through its pioneering needle-exchange program for IV drug users-and was the first to offer free "AIDS cocktails" to patients when generic versions of patented AIDS drugs became available.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/alert2268.html (844 words)

	Labor Notes - Brazil’s Workers Party Tries ‘Participatory Budgeting’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If the Workers Party (or PT, for Partido dos Trabahadores) wins, South America’s largest country will be governed by a party that was created by the labor movement and dedicated to building movements of workers and the poor.
		The Workers Party was created principally by the CUT, Brazil’s main union federation and one of its most militant.
		The Workers Party, according to Wampler, is committed to national participatory programs but it is not clear how the IMF credit will affect those plans.
	www.labornotes.org /archives/2002/10/d.html (1025 words)

	BRAZIL: Workers Party government pushes neoliberal austerity
		The PT originated as a party of militant workers, with origins in industrial and anti-dictatorship struggles in the late 1970s, located especially in the massive urban sprawls created by the industralisation wave of the 1970s.
		Brazil is also being suffocated by foreign debt — in 1992 its debt represented 28% of GDP; in 2002 this reached 62%.
		Brazil may be the 11th largest economy in the world, but it's also the most socially unequal country in Latin America.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/543/543p12.htm (2704 words)

	LAB : Books : Politics Transformed: Lula and the Workers' Party in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But behind this amazing victory for Lula and his Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, or PT) is a long and often difficult struggle for ascendency which began in the early 1980s.
		Written by a Brazilian academic and a British journalist who have long associations with the PT, Politics Transformed tells the story of the PT's origins and electoral history, outlining the key politicians behind it, as well as the riveting story of their four subsequent tries for power.
		She is the co-author with Jan Rocha of Cutting the Wire, the Story of the Brazilian Landless Movement, published by LAB in 2002.
	www.latinamericabureau.org /?lid=1907 (302 words)

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