No. 2, April-May, 1997
April-May 1997 No. 2 $2 rnationalist Australia $2.50, Brazil R$2, Britai~£t5o, No Popular Front, Build a Trotskyist Party. .. 16 Canada $2.50, France 10F, Germany0M'3t Italy L3.000, Japan ¥200, M~xicql~. Ex-Far Left in the Reformist Swamp . ... 21 South Africa R5 , · 2 The Internationalist April-May 1997 Port Strike Against Union-Busting in Brazil In the early morning hours of April 15, some 500 heavily armed shock troops of Brazil's military and federal police stormed the port of Santos, near Sao Paulo. Their purpose was to break a work action by the water front unions in defense of the union hiring hall against attempts to break it by the privatized Sao Paulo steel company. Following the police invasion 2,500 workers occupied the port area. A leaflet on the port strike by the Liga Quarta-Intemacionalista do Brasil (LQB) together with an April 20 supplement to The Internationalist are available our web site (www.intemationalist.org), or write for a copy to the Internationalist Group, Box 3321, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008, U.S.A. Order Now! U.S. $2 Order from/make checks payable to: Mundial Publications, Box 3321, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008, U.S.A. Visit the Internationalist Group on the Internet Internationalist A Journal of Revolutionary Marxism Web site address: for the Reforging of the Fourth International http://www.internationalist.org Publication of the Internationalist Group Now available on our site are: • Founding Statement of the Internation- EDITORIAL BOARD: Jan Norden (editor), Abram Negrete, alist Group Buenaventura Santamaria, Marjorie Salzburg, Socorro Valero.
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