On March 20 President.: Goulart of Brazil announced a programme of constitutional change before a meating of ovor $ million workers in Rio de Janeiro organised by the CGT (Brazilian TUC). This programme included the onfranchisement of the illiterate (some 30,000,000), the legalisation of the C.P., the enfranchisement of the armed services and the granting of powers to the President to enable him to carry out nationalisation and agrarian reform. This mecting was protected from the troops of the ultra-reactionary State Governor, Lacerda, by pro-Goulart Federal troops who ringed the meeting. Over Baster, rank and file mutinics within the navy and marines supported the program. On March 3lst the right wing officers of ive Fourth Army launched a rebellion against Goulart's Government E Vbo countered by the pro—Government first army. The CGT, which is now led by Communists and Fidolistas in the main, has announced that it will support Goulart and his regime against military coups with all the means they can command, including a general strike.
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