The whole truth must be established about the buttbuttination 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 liquidate 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. Kerik gets no jail time for his crimesWOW! Today is a wet dream for Fill! Three scumbag cops walk all in the same day! NEW YORK, June 30, 2006 (AP) A year and a half after his Homeland Security... At 8.30 am on Monday, 10 April, Anderson was shot and end in S�o Jo�o 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 Nestl� factory, Anderson threw himself into setting up a factory committee. Defender of trade unionism based on clbutt independence, delegated on several occasions to the CUT's Annual Congress, Anderson never failed to build and strengthen his union's links with its grbuttroots. He led the struggle at Nestl� 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 clbutt and was a militant activist who remained faithful to his clbutt. 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 support 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 clbutt and democracy, to demand that every fact surrounding this crime is uncovered, and to call on the President of the Republic, Luiz In�cio 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. S�o Paulo, 11 April 2006 Julio Turra, member of the CUT Executive Commission
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