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NAZA is an acronym used by the IDF, derived from the Hebrew phrase nezek agavi, meaning “collateral damage”. It refers to calculations made using Artificial Intelligence to discern the number of civilian casualties, i.e. Palestinian lives that will be eviscerated in planned airstrikes.
The 16 demands which were raised at the outset included absolutely nothing about returning the land to the landlords, or the factories to the bourgeois; they were mostly demands for democratic rights and Hungarian sovereignty. There was in fact an explicit demand for a planned economy ‘under the direction of specialists.’5 The protesters who raised these demands on 23 October marched singing the ‘Marseillaise’ and the ‘Internationale.’6
A second-round campaign then emerged from the grassroots, going beyond the official campaign of the Workers’ Party (PT) in an effort to turn the election around. Just a few days later, millions were already in the streets protesting and urging people to vote for Lula.
