Text version of the Militant, a socialist newspaper
Workers in Yugoslavia press for their rights New regime seeks to demobilize workers, aims to pursue integration into world market system   Tel Aviv intensifies assault on Palestinians   'Secrecy' act: more cover for gov't spying   Coal bosses' greed threatens environment  Socialists discuss resistance by garment,textile workers   INS uses 'secret evidence' to hold Palestinian man   A socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people Vol. 64/No. 43November 13, 2000   Metalworkers in Brazil march for jobs, wages Brazilian metalworkers marched from Sao Paulo to the capital, Brasilia, in late October to demand the government take steps to create jobs and to demand a wage increase. Unemployment in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center, is 17 percent, and in other metropolitan regions it has soared to the highest levels since the mid-1980s. The buying power of workers' wages has fallen by 7 percent with the devaluation of the national currency, the real.       Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home