Brazil: Network statement Anticapitalists
He won Bolsonaro. Brazil's next president is racist, misogynist, homophobe and protofascist.We can not underestimate the danger this means for democracy, for the workers, blacks, native peoples, Brazilian women and sexual dissidence. Former captain openly claims the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil 1964 a 1985; in the final stretch of the campaign he promised "sweeping the country red", threatened to imprison or exiling opponents, censor the press that criticizes.
Behind the big bourgeoisie Bolsonaro encolumnan, the landowning oligarchy, Evangelical Churches and openly fascist elements linked to the Armed Forces. Their program involves a brutal offensive against workers, to maximize capitalist profits by increasing the maximum exploitation. It also implies a conservative agenda offensive against the rights of women and sexual dissidence, blacks and indigenous peoples.
Nevertheless, Bolsonaro majority vote to represent the glut of much of the middle classes and the most impoverished sectors, but no support for its program. Conversely, the millions who took to the streets shouting "ele não" in the days before the ballotage, Unopened forces show that the Brazilian people to stop it. How much progress achieved or not Bolsonaro be settled on the streets. It's time to organize resistance.
At the same time, You can not understand the triumph of Bolsonaro, or organize an effective resistance, regardless of which were betrayal and the failure of the PT and the "progressive" governments in the region, he opened the door to the right. Latin America had a historic opportunity last decade, from the revolutionary upsurge that liquidated several regimes that had implemented submission to the imperialist neoliberalism, and he brought to power governments that generated new expectations in a sovereign course, Independent, and in the case of bolivarianismo- socialist.
But everyone accepted the framework of capitalism as a boundary and became managers of the same. In all developed widespread corruption. Given the global economic crisis, none took action on behalf of the people, all chose to save the capitalist profits and impose authoritarian and repressive regimes to cling to power. Venezuela's humanitarian crisis and the murderous dictatorship in Nicaragua Ortega are the worst face of the failure of Latin American "progressivism".
But Brazil was no exception. Lula, the worker president, He became president in 2003 more than 70% of approval. But the huge expectations that workers placed in PT, they became bitter disappointment. Lula ruled for corporations and landowners. Dilma also began implementing a brutal adjustment to the people when the economic crisis came. The resulting loss of social base allowed the right orchestrating the institutional coup and later imprisoned and proscribe Lula. Also before these events was the PT willing to trust mobilization or call strike and the struggle to confront the right.
Nor Haddad campaign offered nothing new that excites Brazilians would vote for him. After the fulminant outcome of the first round, in which he took almost Bolsonaro 20 Haddad points difference, the PT candidate devoted himself to seek the support of the other candidates establishment and trying to convince the bourgeoisie that he would best guarantee for their business Bolsonaro.
In spite of Haddad and PT, who they strive to appear as anything that Brazilians are rejecting -and that is capitalizing Bolsonaro- mass mobilizations of the last days of campaign, a real movement in defense of democracy, They managed to narrow the gap of votes in half, and they demonstrated the strength with which the people face the government of Bolsonaro.
Today, the urgent task is to organize resistance to confront the reactionary program of the new government. Fascism only you can defeat on the streets, organizing in neighborhoods, the universities, factories and everywhere. At the same time, we have the urgent challenge of strengthening the PSOL as a real alternative to Bolsonaro, the PT and other capitalist parties, which is only possible if we recover an anti-capitalist course that offers the millions of Brazilians who do not want to know anything with the establishment, an exit on the left and socialist. For all this, we need a revolutionary organization to be put at the head of the struggles and dispute a consistent focus on the PSOL. Our fellow-socialist and anti-capitalist PSOL in Red Alternativa commit ourselves entirely to this task.
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
Oct 30, 2018
