Luis Inacio da Silva, or 'Lula', He met with Peter Heathfield and Mick McGahey, addressed a miners' picket in Kent and spoke at a large London public meeting.
talked about the hand-over to civilian rule in Brazil and how the PT sees it. BROTHERS and sisters, comrades, The economic social situation Brazil hasn't changed much. A huge number still norkers unemployed. huge of workers hungry today.
we have iz mıllion rural workers with no land to work. We see the people in the north east dying as a result of the drought. They zo on dying when it rains because they have no land io cultivate. And they die when they've got land because they haven't got the seeds credit they We see illiteracy continuing, with 18 million illiterate people LOOV Housing problems COtinue.
This is the situation in which the presidential succession is taking place, in a country where minimum wage Is aboul Lio a week, and where almost 15 million Brazilans earn inis or less.
When began, elections, He Knew through vote thạt problems, that the help the •OLC ward in more freedom.
campaign, raised the people.
have W C that the workers still aren't 10: impose their political Once again what is happening throughout the is repeated. The oligarchy, the bourgeoisie, the politicians, succeed in deciding the path the KT271121 people take. The fight is abandoned in the middle of the tand that Maluf (the regime's ultra-right ofwe cancere - 50 20 the regime are not one and Maluf is just one tooth on the cogs or mercure snaccry.
wheels of this machinery Call ulte happily without one tooth.
That's why we insist that the regime has to be defeated as a whole, and not just one part of it. This great chunk of the regime the Brazilian We print here parts of that speech, where Lula which now supports the Liberal Front are people who, for 20 years, have supported the regime, who made a pact with corrup. tion, with repression, with Canes Cus allu they've been redeemed to serve a few people's greed we think Tancredo Neves is better than Maluf, but we don't want the Brazilian people to yet again have to settle for the best of a bad lot. We want the Brazilian people to have the right to choose the best.
Neves has that to change Woll the 11ldependent interests the interests oI big landowners' be the Those electoral TanCred Shas already had with the mised colonly.
help stronger.
with producers promised mised time. He's But, whose recovery, for the bankers, the workers that like the child The parBrazilian what the struggles to the PT. PEOPLE CELEBRATED in the streets up and
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metalworkers' leader and president of the Workers' Party (PT), visited Britain briefly in late November.