A new Social Security reform has been inserted on the government agenda, this time together with the factor 85/95 and the minimum age.

After being overlooked and left on the sidelines for some time, the Social Security Pension System is coming back to the crosshairs of the government and businessmen. Although several measures have been inserted on the agenda, the objectives follow the same logic: to reduce the Social Security "expenses" in order to divert more funds to pay the debt interest and boost the billionaire market of private retirement plans.

Activists seek to defend workers rights and demand changes in the economic policy of Dilma’s government

Boosted by CSP-Conlutas(1) and numerous other national entities as well as unions of several categories, the National March to Brasilia on April 24th is of great significance and has become a hub for organizing those willing to defend the workers’ rights  from the ongoing threat of government and employers.

Passport! asserted the Israeli security guard in English, as he approached BDS Brasil demonstrators (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) at the LAAD Fair (Latin American Aerospace and Defense), which took place April 9 - 12 at the Rio Centro Convention Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Councilor of PSTU in Belém, Cleber Rabelo, goes to Altamira to stand in solidarity with the hydroelectric plant’s workers.

Three workers were arrested by the police and three are missing since the early hours of Wednesday (April 10th) in Belo Monte. So far no one knows the whereabouts of these workers who were at the forefront of the strike on the Sitio Pimental, main construction site of the Power Plant. "What we knowis that thousands of workers are trying to get out of there, besieged by the Military Police officers and by the National Security Force. A truly absurd!”, denounced Atnágoras Lopes, of the National Executive of the CSP-Conlutas[1] and who is in Altamira (PA) providing solidarity to the workers.

The Trade Union International Meeting, which has among its organizers the CSP-Conlutas of Brazil and the Central Solidaires of France, started with a cheerful fellowship on Friday, March 23, in Saint-Denis, Paris.

Interview with Dirceu Travesso (Didi) on the international meeting Magazine International Mail. This article was originally published in the magazine of IWL, International Mail (Correio Internacional) No. 10.

On March 22, 23 and 24, it will be held in Paris the Trade Union International Meeting, convened by trade union centrals such as CSP-Conlutas (Brazil) and Solidaires (France).