Brazil: Against the pension reform, general strike!
Last 20 Jair Bolsonaro February was personally until the Chamber of Deputies deliver your project to destroy retirement of Brazilian workers. The “Pension Reform”, long demanded by the market, and manufactured by Paulo Guedes and his team of ultraliberal, manages to be even more evil than Temer he tried to pass on 2017 and it was only defeated by popular mobilization.
Among the main points of the new proposal they are to retirement by contribution time, the establishment of minimum age 65 years for men and 62 for women, with at least 20 years of contribution, increasing the minimum retirement age for rural workers - even more precarized category - with 60 years for both men and women, which it is absurd, since women still play a home day. The government's proposal also provides that the employee must contribute at least 40 years to qualify for full retirement, death pensions will be reduced to 60% retirement received by the deceased and the value of retirement for those who accidenten, or suffering from some kind of disability is reduced around 40%.
These are just a few points that project is nothing more than a blow to the backs of the working class and the poor people Brazil, especially for those who were deceived by promises of "change" Jair Bolsonaro. Contrary to what they say the government and the bourgeois media, there is no deficit in the Social Security, and if it is not collected more, it is because successive governments that passed through the Planalto Palace, They were careful to grant exemptions from more than one billion to companies that should contribute to the Social Security. That is to say, the government tries once again force the poor to sustain the privileges of the rich.
Against these attacks there is only one exit: mobilization workers, workers, Women and Youths, to the General Strike. It was so in 2017 we prevent the "reform" Temer, and that should be the tone of the fight against the government of Bolsonaro. Contrary to defending the bureaucracy of some unions, no room for dialogue or negotiations, and it is not our task to present a reform "alternative" to the reactionary government and the market. The same day 20 that the project was delivered in the House, the main central staged a unified assembly in the Plaza de Sé, in Sao Paulo.
The event was attended by about 10 a thousand people, more unfortunately, not present any routing to the continuity of the mobilization, and this is a grave error, as partners of the government and say they intend to approve the "reform" still in this semester. The unions and leftist parties wishing to actually prevent the dismantling of the Social Security especially the PSOL- They must leave the sterile immobility and institutional struggle, and build a united front to organize the upcoming struggles, with assemblies across the country, strikes, shutdowns and preparation of a new general strike.
Only the mobilization of workers will be possible to prevent the pension reform and other attacks of the reactionary and corrupt government of Jair Bolsonaro. Right book no less! Down the Pension Reform and Paulo Guedes Bolsonaro! Build the General Strike!
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
23.2.2019
