https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Left-faces-choices https://internationalviewpoint.org/Left-faces-choices 2004-12-09T00:00:00Z text/html en Valter Pomar Brazil <p>The Lula government is the product of at least 20 years of accumulation of forces inside the Brazilian left. Today, our government applies an economic policy which perpetuates the hegemony of financial capital, the agro-alimentary industry and the export sector. This contradiction between what president Lula has done and what president Lula does explains the political ambivalence of the bourgeoisie towards the federal Government. <br class='autobr' /> On the one hand it applauds Palloci and on the other it (…)</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV362-December-2004-" rel="directory">IV362 - December 2004</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Brazil-+" rel="tag">Brazil</a>