Brazil: With Brazilian youth, against Bolsonaro
Macri while visiting Bolsonaro expect a general strike home. The solidarity of the International Socialist League with Brazilian students and workers. For an anti-capitalist and socialist way out in Brazil and Argentina.
Thursday 6 June proto-fascist president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro will visit Argentina for the first time. The purpose of the trip is to bring Macri positions on a common strategy to move towards a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. But also it comes to support, an undisguised way, his Argentine partner ahead of presidential elections.
"The Argentina and Brazil can not return to past corruption. We have the Argentine people to choose their president well in October,» He said in a recent interview. Although it took just five months ago, Bolsonaro has taken little in tune with his Argentine counterpart. He promised to boost the economy recedes, It fails to advance fundamental measures in Congress, He has lost social base and popularity at an unprecedented rate, and faces massive mobilizations of resistance against their reactionary agenda.
The most recent rise caused it cut its education budget by 30%. He 15 May an educational strike flooded the streets of 200 Brazilian cities with more 2 millions of protesters. A new demonstration 30 May toured the country and paved the way for the general strike called for 14 of June.
The mobilization process has to head to the Brazilian youth, that from the 2013 He is playing a vanguard role in the struggles of resistance adjustment packages that the last three governments tried to apply on workers and the people, and now faces this direct attack on education.
In Argentina and across the world, young people face a similar attack on our education, driven by the IMF and the imperialist bourgeoisie. We oppose the acute effects of global IMF plans, They are seeking to recover capitalist profit with increased exploitation of workers, and threaten our future, sinking in the casualization, unemployment and marginalization.
For these reasons, the founding conference of the International Socialist League (LIS), held in Barcelona 24 al 26 of May, It passed a resolution in support of the educational struggle in Brazil, in which we are committed to:
Promote activities to support students struggling Brazilian; with agitation campaigns in the streets and universities, photos and videos on social networks, and protests against the Brazilian embassy, as far as possible.
Collecting statements of student leaders and personalities in support of the Brazilian student movement.
Conducting propaganda of our positions on this process in the forefront, through talks and other initiatives.
Thursday 6 we will be in the streets of Buenos Aires, repudiating the presence and policy Bolsonaro, and supporting the struggle of students, the workers and the people of Brazil for getting rid of this nefarious character.
Bolsonaro fighting against Macri in Brazil and in Argentina, political and strategic debate arises. The massive outrage against these rulers led many to conclude that anything would be better to replace them. PJ here and there PT seek placed as alternative with better chances to get them. But we must not forget that it was they who began the adjustments, they descepcionaron, they opened the door to Macri and Bolsonaro, and now say, to recover the government, continue the policies dictated by the IMF.
Therefore it is problematic that a sector of the left engages fronts «Anti-Macri» Y "Anti-Bolsonaro ' with those capitalist regime forces. In Brazil, PSOL, from the first Lula government built the main alternative to the regime left, It is at the door of a shift in this direction. Your address just voted seek broad partnerships including and prioritizing PT.
Our Brazilian organization, Socialist alternative, along with other groups within the PSOL, They published a letter to the party leadership disagreeing with this decision, and will fight to avoid that course wrong.
Like in Argentina, what is needed in Brazil to face and get Bolsonaro, It is a unitary alternative anticapitalist and left Socialist, based on a program of rupture with the IMF and the crisis measures for the capitalists pay, not the workers and the people.
Federico Moreno
reproduced from International Socialist League | 5.6.2019
