The whole truth must be established about the assassination of the
Brazilian
trade union activist Anderson Luiz Souza Santos
It is with great sadness and sense of revulsion that we have received news
of the murder of our comrade Anderson Luiz Souza Santos, militant activist
of the Fourth International, member of the O Trabalho current of the
Workers
Party, and President of the Rio de Janeiro and Baixada Fluminense branch
of
the processed meat workers' union.
At 8.30 am on Monday, 10 April, Anderson was shot and killed in São João
do
Meriti, as he was walking from his house to the bus-stop on his way to a
union meeting.
He was a determined militant activist from an early age. He chaired the
Meriti school-students' union, and led the youth movement that mobilised
and
won the right for school-students to ride for free on the town's buses.
At that time, in 1998, whilst studying and also working at the
multinational
Nestlé factory, Anderson threw himself into setting up a factory
committee.
Defender of trade unionism based on class independence, delegated on
several
occasions to the CUT's Annual Congress, Anderson never failed to build and
strengthen his union's links with its grassroots. He led the struggle at
Nestlé that finally ended with flexible working (banco de horas), and most
recently was focusing on negotiating agreements to help the workers at the
Sadia and Rica companies.
Anderson always fought for the independence of the working class and was a
militant activist who remained faithful to his class. At the political
level, he was a member of the Workers Party and of its O Trabalho current
-
the Brazilian section of the Fourth International.
Militant activists of the labour movement pay tribute to comrade Anderson,
and offer their condolences and their sup****t to his partner Aline and his
friends and family.
This crime is an attack on the whole of the labour movement.
We call on all workers, on every organization that stands for the working
class and democracy, to demand that every fact surrounding this crime is
uncovered, and to call on the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula
da
Silva, on the Minister of Labour, Luiz Marinho, on the National Secretary
of
Human Rights, Paulo Vanucchi, as well as on the Governor of Rio de
Janeiro,
Rosinha Garotinho, and her Secretary for Public Safety, Roberto Precioso
Junior, to demand the most complete enquiry possible into this crime, and
that those responsible together with their silent partners, whoever they
may
be, are punished.
São Paulo, 11 April 2006
Julio Turra, member of the CUT Executive Commission
Send messages of solidarity to: julioturra@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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