Lula Da Silva, a Revolutionary

Lula da Silva: Revolutionary who made changes in Brazil

Lula Da Silva, a Brazilian who desired good working conditions followed by a good salary. He was born in 1945 in Pernambuco. Even though, through out his life Lula faced both: hard living and working environments. His family was frequently moving to houses where they met floods and hunger. Followed by his unemployment in 1965 for 8 months, and physical injuries that he faced in a factory, Lula started losing hope in his dream. However, Lula learned through all these hard circumstances and did not surrender in seeking change for workers. A revolutionary is someone who seeks a sudden chance in the form of government with the intention of establishing a new one. His revolutionary interest in improving the living circumstances in Brazil led Lula to create new and better reforms which led him to his presidency in 1994. Lula’s first action as a revolutionary was the establishment of the “new unionism” followed by the foundation of the first national political party in Brazil, Brazilian Workers Party (PT). In addition, Lula formed the Central Workers’ union (CUT) which was linked to the (PT) by the main goal of improving the working conditions. Second, Lula created the Zero Hunger program, in which he aimed to supply food for poor families and to increase the minimum wage. Last, Lula enforced the Bolsa Familia reform in which he was able to reduce extreme poverty in Brazil by providing income to families, this guaranteed education and medical checkups. Lula was a revolutionary figure who created the first political party in Brazil (PT), stopped hunger with a Zero program and decreased poverty in Brazil.

Lula, a Brazilian revolutionary, took the first step to create change in Brazil by starting his political education. First, he became a member of the trade unionism in 1969. Later, as a union executive, he ran factory commissions in 1979. The main purpose of factory commissions was to improve the working...