Fred Weston, editor of the website In Defence of Marxism, talks about the current situation in Brazil at the London Aggregate of the Socialist Appeal at the begining of July. The occupied factories movement in Brazil is symptomatic of the extreme instability throughout the Latin American continent, as is the Lula governments attempts to divide the working class along race lines and its recent attacks on the CIPLA and Flasko occupied factories. Listen to part 1 and part 2.

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