Brazil: We are not going with Lula and Alckmin

BySocialist alternative/PSOL- LIS, Brazil.

1. The PSOL Electoral Conference, Celebrated on 30 of April, was the representation of the anti-democratic method that prevails today in the party, policy carried out by the majority leadership with the PSOL Bloc of All Struggles – Socialist Spring, Solidarity Revolution, Resistance, Insurgency and Subverta. The entire staging was unmasked the same day with logos and made-up "PSOL with Lula" t-shirts and, mainly, the act marked with the presence of Lula-PT himself, between applause and the celebration of the direction, in addition to the presence of PCdoB, REDE and PV.
2. Despite the cynical policy of the majority leadership to "defeat Bolsonaro" at the national level, not for now, only in the elections, and “defeat the tucanato” in São Paulo, even with Tucano Alckmin in the presidential formula with Lula, the radical left of the PSOL gave a consistent battle until the last minute in defense of its own candidacy represented by the combative comrade Glauber Braga.
3. The PSOL will participate in a front campaign, that is to say, with the composition of parties and bourgeois sectors. Alckmin represents a message from Lula to calm the bourgeoisie: the Letter to the Brazilian People 2.0. Lula's job is to make the tucano digestible by the electorate, «all to defeat Bolsonaro», and Alckmin's is to make Lula minimally swallowed by the dominant reactionary sectors. In the midst of this great dispute, the majority leadership of the PSOL wants to make believe that it will concur with its "own program". This "own program" is summed up in the speeches of the party leadership: only Lula can solve the situation.
4. Alckmin is also the representation of the sectors that have supported Bolsonaro in the presidency since 2019 and who have approved the immense attacks on the Brazilian people. The misery, Unemployment, the violence, attacks on the working class, to women, to the blacks, to the indigenous, a les LGBT, to democracy. They cynically went for regime parties like the PSDB, to which, even if it's broken, Alckmin is umbilically and programmatically linked.
5. We understand that the participation of the revolutionaries in the elections must be a synthesis, not always easy, between tactics and strategy. Limitation to the former results in opportunism, the second in sectarianism. Revolutionaries must act independently and contest the organization of the working class, calling for a front between class organizations, to unity against the attacks and denouncing the traitors who suffocate the struggles of our people to legal channels.
6. Bolsonaro is an enemy that must be fought now. PSOL, your majority address, has played a mediocre political role by not denouncing a line of demobilization carried out by the bureaucratic leadership -with Lula and the PT, because of their weight- to defeat once and for all the “Bolsonaro Out” demonstrations in the second half of 2021. The working class, the poorest, they pay with a miserable life for this betrayal. PSOL, Regrettably, served as a guarantee to leverage the "Lula Presidente" campaign at the time of the demonstrations, when I should have been articulating the spaces of struggle, like People on the Street.
7. It is essential to highlight the role played by the Resistencia currents, Insurgency and Subverta (that make up the Campo Semente) in the composition and direct support of the most regressive of the PSOL – Socialist Spring and Solidarity Revolution. Juliano's decision is clear, Boulos and company to participate in the PT governments, in São Paulo and nationally. The most that these currents achieved was to postpone the debate for the near future, adding their votes to the resolution presented by the majority, against the opposition, the only one that is decidedly opposed to the formation of bourgeois governments. Not a single complaint was made about the liquidation policy. Do the leaders of the Campo de la Semente hide from their bases what they vote behind closed doors? Are the bases of these currents in accordance with their directions? The priority of these tendencies was to passionately defend the exit with Lula-Alckmin and nothing more than that.
8. The companions of the month, with a hesitant policy, favored the majority leadership defending the Federation with REDE, part of the PSOL refoundation project. There is no doubt that the REDE is a letter most used and financed by the bourgeoisie. In addition to the federation, they did not throw their weight in the campaign for their own candidacy with Glauber, and very shortly after the result of the Electoral Conference, decided to call for a “critical vote” for Lula-Alckmin – Strengthen followed the same path. Regrettably, comrades cannot challenge the PSOL structure because that means challenging their own material dependency.
9. In this time of crisis, the PSTU, the UP, the PCB and the left of the PSOL have the responsibility, to dispute a sector of the vanguard that took to the streets for "Fora Bolsonaro", to build a unitary program that expresses radicalism and the need to remove Bolsonaro and point to a classist and socialist alternative to the crisis. So that the working class and the poor can rule. In this sense, the self-proclaimed policy of self-construction only serves to disenchant the avant-garde and throw it into the lap of the Frente Amplio. In this sense, We were in defense of the Socialist Left Front in these elections, making available the candidacy of Glauber Braga.
10. Socialist alternative, PSOL current, will not participate in the front campaign for Lula-Alckmin. We will continue with our own program and in defense of a class and socialist alternative. We affirm that the definitive defeat of Bolsonaro and Bolsonarism will not be achieved through a pact with the traditional right, as the left of the regime preaches and, Regrettably, accept the PSOL. To confront the extreme right, we need an alternative that is class independent and that presents a real way out for working and poor people. We will continue betting and militating for the construction of this tool, even with the PSOL taking big steps in the opposite direction.