In an attempt to rehabilitate the military, the Workers Party (PT) government has deployed troops to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ports and the western borders to fight crime.
Beginning last year, student and teachers unions diverted the fight against Bolsonaro’s attacks on education towards Lula’s election; today they are covering for the successive austerity measures of the new Workers Party (PT) government.
The UNE has isolated the students’ struggle from the growing movement of the Brazilian working class and diverted it behind Workers Party candidate, Lula.