Workers' Party (Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores). It is a Brazilian left-wing political party and one of the most important in the country. It is currently the ruling party in government since 2022, following the victory of its founding leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in his reelection. The PT emerged from the spontaneous trade unionism of São Paulo workers in the late 1970s. Since its foundation, it has represented the defense of socialism as a form of social organization.

Ideology

Characterized by many political researchers as a representative of the new left or a driving party of the so-called "intelligent left", the PT emerged from the spontaneous union organization of São Paulo workers in the late 1970s, within the political vacuum created by the military regime's repression of the traditional communist parties and the then existing armed leftist groups. In an interview in 2008, the founding leader of the PT, former President Lula da Silva expressed that the PT presents itself as a left-wing party that defends socialism as a form of social organization.

Despite considering itself as a party of the moderate left and not linked to traditional socialist political movements, the PT has fostered links with political parties of the radical left such as the Communist Party of Cuba, the Communist Party of China and the Korean Communist Party (Workers Party), it has also had approaches to European socialist parties, characterized as social democrats such as the PSOE of Spain, the PSOK of Greece, the socialist of Portugal, the social democrat of Germany and the labor party of the United Kingdom. The party articulates with other diverse Latin American parties and left-wing groups, such as the Uruguayan Frente Amplio, and Brazilian social movements, such as the MST in the so-called Sao Paulo Forum, a meeting of Latin American left-wing political parties and movements.

Some claim that such relations do not translate into any kind of organizational unity, remaining at the level of mutual political solidarity around certain common objectives, such as the struggle for Latin American unity and opposition to U.S. political penetration in Latin America. The latter say that what characterizes the PT is a certain rhetorical adherence to socialism, an adherence which does not translate into clear ideological presuppositions consensually admitted by the generality of the party.

Nevertheless, the PT has been one of the driving forces behind the unity of the so-called "Latin American left", a movement that led to the rise to power of coinciding leftist movements such as Evo Morales' MAS in Bolivia, Rafael Correa's Alianza PAIS in Ecuador, the Frente Amplio of Tabaré Vázquez and currently of José Mujica in Uruguay and the Frente para la Victoria in Argentina led by former President Néstor Kirchner and his wife, Argentinean President Cristina Fernández.

PT in power

Lula's government

With the rise to the presidency of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party in 2002, winning the second round of the 2002 general elections and his inauguration in January 2003, several political parties came together, including the Popular Socialist Party, the Brazilian Socialist Party, the Democratic Labor Party, and others as a support base.

After a period of stumbling blocks came the left's criticism of President Lula's government and the public recognition of the Workers' Party as a center-left reformist party, instead of its ally United Socialist Party of Venezuela with a revolutionary program. In 2006, with the general elections, Brazil's pietist project was reaffirmed, with the development of the Growth Acceleration Plan, the PAC.

A detailed portrait of the Brazilian reality (disclosed at the end of November by IBGE), shows that the government of President "Lula" is making Brazil a less unequal country; and according to the PNAD survey, the FGV disclosed the study, showing that the poverty rate in 2007 dropped 11% compared to 2006.

Its main social program, Beca Família, which aimed to serve 13.2 million families in 2007, is considered the largest income transfer program in the world, with resources of about R$10.5 billion in 2007.

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