New Hope for Brazil?  

On October 27, 2002, Luiz InĂ¡cio Lula da Silva-lathe operator, leader of the independent Brazilian labor movement that emerged in the late 1970s to challenge the military regime, a founder of the Brazilian Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores-PT), and a …



Repression in Brazil  

General Jaruzelslci’s martial-law regime has swiftly and mercilessly trampled on independent trade unionism in Poland for the present moment. We are all aware of this bitter turn of events. But few know of another crackdown on workers that has been …