1. I want to thank Fabio Bosco of the United Socialist Workers Party (PSTU), Valter Pomar of the Left Articulation tendency of the PT, Osvaldo Coggiola of the journal Class Struggle, and Rui Costa Pimenta of the Workers Cause Party (PCO) for providing material on Brazil, the PT, and Rio Grande do Sul to supplement and balance the articles from the Socialist Democracy tendency of the PT printed in International Viewpoint and reprinted in Labor Standard. The views I express in this article are my own, however.