Elections in Brazil: a necessary balance
The causes of the triumph of fascist Bolsonaro and orientation to continue confronting. Why wins Bolsonaro? It's almost 50 million people who voted for former military, and millions more wonder, in the country and around the world, how Jair Bolsonaro managed to be the first choice of the Brazilian people, arriving at 46,07% valid support in the first round votes.
With a misogynist speech, homophobic, xenophobic and racist, poses implement a policy that violates the rights of all people and claiming the darkest moments of the country, as was the dictatorship. during his 28 years within the National Congress collected phrases like "Evil of the dictatorship was being tortured and not killed".
His project is not one right over, It is a fascist project, which relies on the armed forces and the most reactionary sectors to go with a heavy hand against all the rights acquired by workers, women and youth and prevent conquer new, which can open the door to a more complex and critical outcome.
Starting from this characterization of who is Bolsonaro, We also need to put on the table other factors, they are the ones that can explain this result.
The causes are a combination of international and domestic factors. The capitalist crisis has put national regimes in the need for progress with political necessary to implement the necessary measures to ensure the increase in the rate of profit, attacking the working class.
In this context the polarization of the population is higher among candidates from opposing positions. This in Brazil combined with the lack of a real alternative to hard left, and is an option, the PT already known that after more than a decade in government and after cases of corruption that is involved, He has garnered a strong rejection in a large arc of the population, rather Bolsonaro voted against a return PT.
Prominently, You must have the reactionary role that churches have, as it is shown in Argentina with the struggle for the right to legal abortion, and here with his fervent support for the campaign Bolsonaro.
A win in the second round Bolsonaro sharpen the class struggle, because the people of Brazil as already demonstrated last Saturday 29 with women at the head, will not let their rights be taken away.
The responsibility of the role of PT
One of the most important factors that exist today Bolsonaro, It is the responsibility of the political leadership of the PT itself. Party was in government for three terms and a half; which came with a leftist discourse, but quickly she adapted its policy the bourgeois regime and not only boosted measures not break with imperialism, but he was who guaranteed throughout his term profitability for large capitalist corporations.
He lost much of his own social base, mainly among workers and middle class who supported him because of these measures and the adjustment plans for retirees or cutting social budgets implemented during his years in office. He acquired a social base clientelar never tried to politicize, who it was easier to change the vote, who has been confused and won by nationalist proposals Bolsonaro and lies with which they bombarded from all reactionary supporting this fascist.
All this adds to the facts that are public knowledge on corruption, which led to the institutional coup against Dilma occur and that Lula is imprisoned. It is very important to note all this, since we do not put any confidence in a new government of PT, in this round managed not reach 30% of votes (29,22%).
We consider that, If we can reverse the vote, something very difficult, PT and the government came again, It will be a weaker government which will continue to face, organized in the streets as they tried to deepen the neoliberal course that followed all these years.
PSOL
The organization, of which is part Alternativa Socialista, He has developed a very poor performance in the election for president, achieving only achieve 0,6% of votes, This contrasts with the good choices you made in several States both Governor and legislative positions.
This is explained by two phenomena: one great polarization that was generated and which could not be us alternative. The second is due to the policy that has been most management, who ran for president a person who claimed and declared support for governments PT, which maintained throughout the campaign and made a conciliatory speech that a characteristic feature of the organization is lost from birth: be left opposition to PT. A) Yes, the opportunity to be as an alternative in this crisis situation was lost.
We are convinced that the PSOL should have proposed a radicalization of the political project, away from the positions that resemble the PT, That could have positioned the national party, much more difficult the triumph of Bolsonaro.
The latter consideration is also explains the good results in different States, both government and parliamentary representatives. They have in every case been very different national campaigns: independent, left, as opposed to Bolsonaro but also critical and remote PT.
An example is the State of Pernambuco, where the government candidate Dani Portela, He has achieved a historic vote, passing 27.000 almost 190.000 votes, a candidacy collective 5 women who obtained a bench, with a proposal for joint mandate for the next 4 years.
At the level of national deputies, PSOL went from 6 MPs (5 men and 1 woman) a 11 MPs (5 women and 6 mens). It is the first time the PSOL will have youth on their national caucus (Fernanda, Taliria and Aurea), black representatives and a broad representation of women.
These data raise first we need to make a big debate inside the organization. We need to strengthen it with a strong profile left, policy to face whoever advance our rights against a repressive framework, is the political color that is, and thus transform the alternative that the people want and need to change society. And out, because this election also shows that when people find a real alternative left supports, despite the advance of reactionary sectors, as has been demonstrated.
Bolsonaro before the victory in first round
And the results of the election, we believe it is important to note that fascism would have to face in the streets, since today we have to go out and require political and union leaderships to be put at the head of this mobilization, We can not allow the progress of this project.
There must be a major campaign against the possibility that Bolsonaro to become the new president. Because, before the second round we will take a position, and in the context of understanding that the two current candidates are not the same, the vote against Bolsonaro has to be a deeply critical vote. Without depositing any confidence in a project that showed when it was government that has nothing to offer workers and that instead of relying on the mobilization of the advances on the right as it was in the coup against Dilma or detention Lula, He hoped that the institutions of the regime feels part. Or what before the call to mobilize against setting Temer, via the Unique Workers Central (CUT) directing, finished demobilizing and calling to lift the general strike 3 days before performing in December 2017.
For all this, as we have faced before each blow to the working class, we believe that we will have to continue doing, If I could reverse the election and be elected. Something that looks very difficult because of the big difference that brought the monster that is emerging.
Definitely, Today the revolutionary way out is a vote against fascism, without wash her face to a position of center-left populist, and continue to build an alternative political left that is the real choice for women, youth, and the working class as a whole. From Socialist Alternative in the PSOL we propose this path and we propose to set this campaign.
Celeste Fierro - Lucas Tiné
reproduced from: https://anticapitalistasenred.org
