What priorities should we fight for in Lula's government?

After the grand inauguration ceremony in which the red tide swept through Brasília, even overriding the bureaucratic schemes of those who intended to hold a controlled event with searches and without broad popular participation, and after the inauguration and the first ministerial meeting, the expectation is to see the new government effectively take action to meet the demands of the working people, who were responsible for its election.

The first measures taken by Lula's government that were positive in terms of maintaining his campaign promises on fundamental points, such as the cancellation of privatizations that were underway in Bolsonaro's government, indicate the willingness of the president and most of the members of the new government he appointed to move in that direction.

Departed

However, conflicts of interest are already evident within the government itself, with the infiltration of a coup-plotting wing (Alckmin, Tebet, ministers from MDM, PSD, UB, etc.) and even Bolsonaro supporters into ministries and positions within the state apparatus, which will not contribute in any way to strengthening the PT government. These are sectors that are absolutely contrary to the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people who guaranteed Lula's victory. 

Against this policy, workers, left-wing parties, the CUT (Unified Workers' Central), unions, the MST (Landless Workers' Movement), and other workers' organizations must support the government against the right wing while simultaneously pressing for the demands of the working people. 

We need to mobilize support so that the Lula government adopts a set of initiatives with a significant political and social impact.

In addition to blocking privatizations, a large national mobilization is needed in In defense of the renationalization of Petrobras, Eletrobras, and Vale., (formerly Vale do Rio Doce, handed over by the FHC government for a thousandth part of its mineral wealth). 

Revocation

It is still fundamental nationalize the oil and put its immense wealth at the service of the Brazilian people, starting by reduce fuel prices; reduce taxes for workers e increase wages and pensions so that the economy can be driven by popular consumption;

Cancel the pension reform and guarantee that workers have the right to a full retirement pension, equal to their active-duty salaries.

To guarantee agrarian reform through the confiscation of large landholdings and the settlement of millions of landless workers, indigenous people, and quilombola communities.

These and other fundamental demands can only be realized by popular mobilizationWhat the people did at Lula's inauguration should be the example set for the exploited of the country.

The CUT (Unified Workers' Central) and the Union must take the initiative, starting by intensifying the campaign for the "repeal" of all measures against workers imposed by the coup regime, as advocated in the manifesto of important workers' struggle organizations (APEOESP, CUT-SP, CMP, etc.).