Lula government prepares new attacks on Brazil’s workers and poor

Lula government prepares new attacks on Brazil’s workers and poor

After the PT’s collapse in last November’s municipal elections, the Lula government’s austerity measures threaten to pave the way for the extreme right’s return to power.

Hélder Barbalho, who was minister in the government of the emedebista, was on stage next to the president. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this Thursday that his predecessors, Michel Temer (MDB) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL), left abandoned works because they only valued the poor at election time. The PT member spoke during the delivery of the My House, My Life works that had been paralyzed and were resumed in his management. Lula referred to…