Socialism and Freedom Party (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Socialism and Freedom Party (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade, P-SOL) is a Brazilian political party (11.000 members). Among the party leaders are Helosa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Bab (Par), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, Joo Machado, Pedro Ruas and others. PSOL was formed after Helosa Helena, Luciana Genro, Bab and Joo Fontes (also a federal deputy, now a member of the Democratic Labour Party, PDT) were expelled from the Workers' Party, after voting against the pension reform proposed by Lula. After collecting more than 438,000 signatures, P-SOL became Brazil's 29th officially recognized political party, the first to do so by this method.