the postal and telecommunications services.
The workers were demanding improved ohe full rest day pur week, a 35 hour week.
week). The Government had been prepared set up.
This offer had been rejecred by a mass assembly of workers delegates from across The Commonist Party and the InterThe miest cows 1 bat the Portuguese A team of Brazilian exporters, bankers and government officials, visiting Canada to win new export contracts, has rue into major difficulties as a result of actions by local socialist groups.
The Revolutionary Marxise Group (a sympalhising organisation of the Fourth International first became aware we preparations or the cour for actions in the four major economic centres - Vancouver, Winnipeg, visited by the team, and local united front ad-oc committeen were rapidly As a result of the work of the com mittees the Brazilian tour has received a rather different kind of publicity from that expected by the Brazilian Covernment, In Vancouver protester: lay in powls of ox blood to dramatise the repecasion in Brazil, while others held a rally outsile the Rosal Hank of Canada, which has helped finance the Brazilian "miracle" of exploitation.
Weil the team arrived in Vancouve for its opening press conference on 17 June, the event was completely disroprod by twenty outants of the Brasil Action Committee. Eventually the organisers offered in desperation to allow the BAC representatives time do speak; once they had done so the meeting eftectively terminated A public display of Brasilian goods Red Weekly presence ot 100 demonstrators meant ENSLEASE HITO DIRE with special invitations to look at the prodece of Brazilian faber exploitaThe tour is a reture vialt following a tour of Brazil last year by 200 Canadian business, government and military officials. Socialist militants have stressed in their campaign not only the repressive nature of the Brucilian regime, and its role in preparing the Chile coup, but also the imperialist nadure of Canadian involve micet in Latin America.
The Old Mole, paper of the RMG explained! Active opinition to the lour would not simply be a visible dis play of our solidarity with socialist forces and political prisomers in Brazil today. Any international challenge to the vitality of the Brazilian economy could concretely attor the conditions under which Brazilian workers and peasants must struggle.
It is important for European socialists do take note of these events, because intention to send similar tours to Sweden, Britain, France and Germany In the near Tuture Simular actions here can help to further disrupt the trade and diplomatic relations of the junta with the advanced capitalist countries, and thus enable the workers' and peasants' movements in Brazil to struggle in ever more favourable conditions.
WALTER DAVIS
Red Weekly