longer paid for by social security or only very partially reimbursed. ices continue and the postponing of the reform of social security and the of an increasingly privatised free market society. admitted defeat. This was the significance of the mobilisation in Larzac where anti-globalisation activists, •••• repaying Brazil's debts to the imperialist banks, even if that means depriving the poor of health care and education.
There is a strongly held view, now. More and more medication is no Plans for privatisation of public servlike has not changed the government's determination to move in the direction pay packets. However no sector has given up and
such as May 13 gral part of the PT and had to demonstrate that it was prepared to be part of a government that would govern in favour of Brazil's poor and working class.
. UELIC! to express their resistance.
But the after effects of the mobilisations in the spring have had an impact. The first and immediate effect is the loss of pay - the government refused tors. to negotiate with the unions to agree a limit to the deductions from strikers'
The failure of the unions also weighs heavily - notably that of the CGT, the most powerful trade-union confedera tion. They failed to make a clear call for an all-out strike after the major action. national strike days on pension reform