Morning Star Union Federation Declares War To Defend Rousseff James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 20 August 2016 Brazil's biggest union federation vowed on Thursday to "go to war" for workers' rights and against the right-wing drive to oust President Dilma Rousseff. The Unified Workers' Central (CUT), an ally of Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party (PT), called a protest march in the capital Brasilia for August 29 to demand that senators vote against her impeachment. Ms Rousseff's PT predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was at the press conference in Sao Paulo as CUT president Vagner Freitas confirmed that the "great act in defence of democracy" was planned. Ms Rousseff faces a trial by the country's senate, starting next Thursday, on dubious charges of hiding extra budget spending in the 2014 election year. She was suspended by the lower Chamber of Deputies in May after the PMDB party of Vice-President Michel Temer, now heading a scandal-tarnished interim government, turned against her. "The scenario we have in the senate is different from the scenario in the house," Mr Freitas said. "In April, the public supported the coup. Today, there is an understanding that the coup has deepened the political and economic crisis in Brazil." Municipal elections Mr da Silva said Ms Rousseff had been targeted because the US covets Brazil's huge newly discovered "pre-salt" maritime oil reserves. He also condemned the "return to below-inflation wage rises" under Mr Temer. CUT vice-president Carmen Foro warned: "The next period, comrades, will be war. "I'm talking about the war in defence of our rights, which are being attacked, and the war will be the municipal elections." [email protected] From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fe26-Labour-federation-declares-war-to- defend-Rousseff#.V7flD_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13990 (20160819) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002401d1faa7%24f6fa8270%24e4ef8750%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
