We publish here a range of viewpoints, starting with an interview with our comrade HeloÃsa Helena, senator from the state of Alagoas and a supporter of the Socialist Democracy tendency, who was expelled from the PT last December (see IV 357, March 2004). HeloÃsa Helena is now president of the PSoL.
The three other articles criticize the initiative from different angles. The first was written by a leader of the Left Articulation current in the PT, the second is the editorial from a Catholic left weekly with close links with Brazil’s combative social movements, while the third was published by the Socialist Democracy tendency of the PT (in which Brazilian supporters of the Fourth International participate).
Dissidents form PSoL to defend socialist ideal - Interview with HeloÃsa Helena - MaurÃcio Hashizume
Left faces choices - Valter Pomar
A new socialist party - Correio da Cidadania
A new party: the PSoL - Jornal Democracia Socialista