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electoral bloc formed by the PT in the upcoming elections, calling instead for Lula to break with his bourgeois partners and advocate a "Government of the PT to Break with the Imperialist Debt."
In addition, as a result of the pressure generated by the left wing opposition forces at the PT's 6th National Convention, the PT leadership agreed to hold an Extraordinary National Convention one week after the first round of the presidential elections to discuss what position the party should take in the second round.
This convention will most likely witness a sharp political confrontation between the PT's left wing and the majority leadership caucus. What the outcome of this political fight will be is by no means certain.
The PT, once clearly on a growth path and consistently independent of the ruling class, has strayed. The PT has always stood for the transformation of Brazil from a weak link in the chain of world capitalism to a government based on human needs, run by the workers and peasants. The task ahead for the left wing of the PT is to return the PT to this class-struggle perspective.
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