Our
Commitments
PDT
(Partido Democrático Trabalhista), Labor Democratic
Party - is a political organization of the Brazilian Nation
in defense of her interests, her properties, her identity
and her integrity. It has its aim to fight - under the framework
nationalism and labor - for national sovereignty and Brazilian
development as well as for the rights of the Brazilian people
and labor conquests, original sources of all goods and wealth,
looking forward to a democratic and socialist society.
The
party, as an institution, and its members, individually,
will act by democratic and peaceful means, even though,
when needed, with indignation, vigor and energy, essentially
on the lines of the basic commitments:
1)
To the Nation and her fighting history for the control of
her territory as well as her wealth in order to reach her
full development capable of stating her sovereignty and
independence;
2)
To education, national salvation cause, priority of all
priorities; by feeding, sheltering and assisting all children
in the country since their mothers’s womb; educating
them and giving them full-time schooling without any sort
of discrimination;
3)
To decent work and health care for all Brazilians;
4)
To fair wages for all Brazilians, who also have the right
to benefit from their own work;
5)
To the defense of public property and national health;
6)
To the halt to colonial exploitation to which the country
is submitted and the recovery of international losses imposed
on our economy;
7)
To the rescue of damages and losses caused by concessions
to economic groups and privatizations harmful to public
interest;
8)
To the rationalization and democratization of the Brazilian
Federation, having it as a channel for the interests and
rights our people;
9)
To the reorganization of agriculture around the small and
medium property and execution of the land reform;
10)
To the increase in production to such level that no Brazilian
family will be hungry;
11)
To the fight for women, blacks, Indians, youngsters and
the elderly’s rights without any kind of discrimination;
12)
To the reform of financial system in order to make of it
a tool for national development;
13)
To the defense of the dignity of civil service, under the
ethic’s framework, in order to serve the citizen and
give prestige to the civil servant;
14)
To the fight to defend Brazilian nature and for a healthy
environment in order to preserve the biological base and
the self-sustainable development of our country.
15)
From our new statute, approved in the conference latest
National PDT Conference of March 14, 1996).
