Democratic Labour Party

The Brazilian Democratic Labour Party, known in Portuguese as Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT), is a political entity in Brazil that has its roots deeply embedded in the labor movement and the legacy of Getúlio Vargas, a prominent 20th-century… Brazilian leader. The PDT was officially founded in 1979 by Leonel Brizola, a key figure in Brazilian politics, who aimed to continue the laborist legacy of Vargas amidst the political reorganization that was happening during the process of re-democratization after the military dictatorship era in Brazil. The party's values are centered around a commitment to social democracy, aiming to balance economic development with social justice and welfare. It advocates for the rights of workers, pushing for fair labor practices, better working conditions, and the protection of workers' rights as a fundamental aspect of its political agenda. The PDT also emphasizes the importance of education, healthcare, and social programs as means to promote social inclusion and reduce inequality in Brazilian society. Environmental protection and sustainable development are also significant components of the PDT's platform, reflecting a broader concern for the future of Brazil and the planet. The party supports policies that encourage economic growth while ensuring the preservation of Brazil's rich natural heritage for future generations. In its foreign policy stance, the PDT advocates for a multilateral approach, emphasizing Brazil's active participation in international affairs and cooperation with other nations, particularly in Latin America, to promote peace, democracy, and development. Throughout its history, the PDT has positioned itself as a party that seeks to represent the interests of the working class while promoting a broader agenda of social progress and democratic values. Its commitment to democracy, social justice, and national development has made it a significant force in Brazilian politics, contributing to the country's ongoing debates about its future direction.Read more

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South Korea's President Declares Martial Law to Crush 'Rebellion'

South Korea’s national assembly has voted to block president Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law, as lawmakers and the head of state wrestle for control of the country.In a televised address on Tuesday night, Yoon, whose popularity has sunk to record lows in recent months, announced…

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AOC’s Shocking Discovery: Trump Supporters Back Her 'Populist' Stand

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has taken to Instagram to listen to split-ticket voters from last week’s election, posting a question box asking “People who supported [President-elect] Trump & me OR voted Trump/Dem, tell us why” on her story. She received a variety of responses from her 8.1 million followers and beyond, citing reasons ranging from Trump and Ocasio-Cortez’s “care for the working class” to the war in Gaza. “I’m LISTENING,” she wrote. “Sometimes you gotta dig in and see it to understand and adapt! Even if it makes you want to barf.”“I support you and did this. Felt like I didn’t have a choice after Biden’s administration,” one reply said. “You are focused on the real issues people care about. Similar to Trump populism in some ways,” another said.“This is why I say that we should be signing up to knock on doors and be on the phones,” Ocasio-Cortez said in another story in response to a comment that said responses were “blowing [their] mind. “If you’re only tuning in to [mass media], you will think that most people fall along this spectrum, and a lot of people don’t.” She added that door knocking and phone banking are not a “junior thing” that politicians should grow out of. She also posted stories also asking about where leftists and Trump-supporting voters get their news from and shared some of those responses as well. Ocasio-Cortez glided to victory in her reelection race in New York last week, and will continue to represent the state’s 14th Congressional District.

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First Lady Feud: Melania Declines Biden Meet-Up Over Privacy Invasion

Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents.“She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said.“Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet,” the source added.Melania’s husband, President-elect Donald Trump, will sit with President Biden in the Oval Office Wednesday for a traditional post-election meeting.Typically, the first lady hosts her successor for tea in the White House.Melania visited the White House following her husband’s 2016 election win and received a tour from then- first lady Michelle Obama.After Trump lost his re-election bid in 2020, he failed to invite the Bidens to the White House before the Democrat officially assumed office, breaking the decades-old tradition, according to reports at the time.The Post has reached out to the Trump campaign and the White House about Melania’s decision to skip the meeting.The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 in its probe of the 45th president’s withholding of classified White House documents.Melania, 54, has previously voiced her displeasure over the raid at their Palm Beach, Florida, mansion.“Yeah, it made me angry,” she said on “Fox & Friends” in a September interview, calling it an “invasion of privacy.” FBI agents scoured Melania’s wardrobe, combed through her 78-year-old husband’s office and even reportedly searched one of her son Barron’s rooms.

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Elon Musk Backs 'Judge Dredd' Gaetz for AG: "The Hammer of Justice We Need"

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and incoming head of President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency showered Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. attorney general early on Tuesday morning, specifically citing his desire for vengeance as a positive.“Matt Gaetz has 3 critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind. He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison,” wrote Musk on X at around 2:00 a.m. eastern time on Tuesday. “Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice.In a follow-up, Musk summarily dismissed the various allegations of misconduct against him — which include statutory rape and paying women for sex.“As for these accusations against him, I consider them worth less than nothing. Under our laws, a man is considered innocent until proven guilty,” he submitted. “If AG Garland (an unprincipled douchebag) could have secured a conviction against Gaetz, he would have, but he knew he could not. Case closed.”Gaetz faces an uphill battle to confirmation due to a variety of reasons, including his limited legal experience, many enemies on Capitol Hill, and the allegations of misconduct against him.After Trump announced his intention to nominate Gaetz last week, he quickly resigned from the House of Representatives, only just preempting a vote in the House Ethics Committee on whether to release a report into allegations that he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.” Upon his resignation, the Ethics Committee lost jurisdiction over the investigation into Gaetz.

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MAGA Purge: Trump Jr. and Carlson Slam Globalists!

Carlson and Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s oldest son, outlined what they said were the dangers of bringing neoconservatives into the administration—men and women, they claimed, who seek to control him, not serve him. They also argued that Pompeo had proven himself to be disloyal, the people said, pointing to Pompeo’s decision to distance himself from false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and comments he made that the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol by Trump supporters was “unacceptable.”Within days of the election, Pompeo was out of the running. The president-elect posted on Truth Social that Pompeo and Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, wouldn’t be landing jobs in his administration.Officials such as Haley, who challenged Trump during the Republican primary, and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien were passed over for jobs as Trump and his team looked to stock his cabinet with “fresh blood,” as one transition official put it, who have roots in the MAGA movement. The perception among some within Trump’s inner circle is that appointees such as Pompeo would follow a more conventional GOP approach to national security policy by supporting U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts, such as Ukraine, or icing out traditional adversaries, such as Russia. Pete Hegseth, a military veteran and former Fox News host whom Trump chose to lead the Pentagon, has criticized U.S. involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, and has touted a controversial view that women should be barred from combat. But Hegseth’s path to confirmation has been fraught with challenges because of a number of personal controversies.

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Mother Who Lost Son in "Kids for Cash" Slams Biden

A mother whose teen son died by suicide after a juvenile detention in the “Kids for Cash” scandal broke down in tears on air as she condemned President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of former judge Michael Conahan.Conahan was convicted in 2011 for his role in a scheme that traded juvenile detention sentences for millions in kickbacks. His actions, alongside fellow Democrat judge Mark Ciavarella, left a devastating legacy, including lives upended and families shattered.Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy. In 2020, he was placed under home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic with six years remaining on his sentence. On Thursday, he was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted in what the White House described as a historic act of clemency. Biden’s move came after he pardoned his own son, Hunter Biden.Sandy Fonzo’s son, Ed, died by suicide at 23 after being sentenced by Ciavarella when he was 17 to eight months detention for a minor drug paraphernalia charge.Appearing on Democracy Now to speak with host Amy Goodman, Fonzo was emotional shared the outrage that Biden’s move had caused her."This is very emotional. Very heavy. Just hearing and having to relive all of this. This has just reopened wounds that have never healed and this is very very difficult, very heavy. I shouldn’t be having to relive this, especially at Christmas time. I mean this is unacceptable. I need to talk about it. I need to defend my son because he is not here to defend himself and I am his mother."

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Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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Democratic Labour Party

Democratic Labour Party platform and policies

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Do you support the legalization of same sex marriage?

What is your stance on abortion?

Should employers be required to pay men and women the same salary for the same job?

Should Brazil raise taxes on the rich?

Should there be more or less privatization of hospital and healthcare services?

Should hate speech be protected by freedom of speech laws?

Should gay couples have the same adoption rights as straight couples?

Should the government regulate the prices of life-saving drugs?

Should the government raise the federal minimum wage?

Should the government regulate social media sites, as a means to prevent fake news and misinformation?

Should the government be able to monitor phone calls and emails?

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

Do you support the death penalty?

Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt?

Should the government raise or lower the tax rate for corporations?

Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school?

Should the government increase environmental regulations on businesses to reduce carbon emissions?

Should the government require employees of large businesses to be vaccinated from COVID?

Should the government increase spending on public transportation?

Do you support a universal basic income program?

Should there be term limits set for members of Congress?

Are you in favor of decriminalizing drug use?

Should businesses be required to have women on their board of directors?

Should the government provide subsidies for the development of high-speed rail networks?

Should police departments be allowed to use military grade equipment?

Should the government use economic stimulus to aid the country during times of recession?

Should drug traffickers receive the death penalty?

Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy?

Should non-violent prisoners be released from jail in order to reduce overcrowding?

Should the government add or increase tariffs on products imported into the country?

Should people under the age of 18 years old be able to receive gender-transition treatments?

Should the government attempt to influence foreign elections?

Should every 18 year old citizen be required to provide at least one year of military service?

Should researchers be allowed to use animals in testing the safety of drugs, vaccines, medical devices, and cosmetics?

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Should there be fewer or more restrictions on current welfare benefits?

Should the government provide tax incentives to private companies to keep jobs within the country?

Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?

Should transgender athletes be allowed to compete against athletes that differ from their assigned sex at birth?

Do you support the use of nuclear energy?

Should tuition at public universities be free?

Should the government hire private companies to run prisons?

Should cities open drug “safe havens” where people who are addicted to illegal drugs can use them under the supervision of medical professionals?

Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide?

Should politicians over 75 years of age have required to pass a mental competency test?

Should disposable products (such as plastic cups, plates, and cutlery) that contain less than 50% of biodegradable material be banned?

Should Brazil conduct military strikes against North Korea in order to destroy their long-range missile and nuclear weapons capabilities?

Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

Should the government impose stricter regulations on the collection and use of personal data by companies?

Should Brazil increase or decrease military spending?

Should Brazil increase or decrease foreign aid spending?

Should convicted criminals have the right to vote?

Should corporations, unions, and non-profit organizations be allowed to donate to political parties?

Should the minimum voting age be lowered?

Should the government fund the World Health Organization?

Should welfare recipients be tested for drugs?

Should the military allow women to serve in combat roles?

Should the government break up Amazon, Facebook and Google?

Should Muslim immigrants be banned from entering the country until the government improves its ability to screen out potential terrorists?

Should the government increase funding for homeless shelters and services?

Should homeless individuals, that have refused available shelter or housing, be allowed to sleep or encamp on public property?

Should Brazilian citizens be allowed to save or invest their money in offshore bank accounts?

Should Brazil transition to a four-day workweek?

Should cities be allowed to offer private companies economic incentives to relocate?

Should pension payments be increased for retired government workers?

Should the government invest in programs to reduce food waste?

Should social media companies ban political advertising?

Should it be illegal to burn the Brazilian flag?

Should the government mandate that large tech companies share their algorithms with regulators?

Do you support the use of genetically engineered crops and foods?

Should Brazil provide military supplies and funding to Ukraine?

Should the government require tech companies to provide backdoor access to encrypted communications for national security purposes?

Should the government acquire equity stakes in companies it bails out during a recession?

Do you support the government calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza?

Should women be allowed to wear a Niqāb, or face veil, to civic ceremonies?

Should Ukraine join NATO?

Should immigrants from high risk countries be banned from entering the country until the government improves its ability to screen out potential terrorists?