Brazil: Socialist Revolution is born, unity to transform everything
By Central Committee of Socialist Revolution-PSOL. LIS, Brazil.
The days 10, 11 Y 12 January the Unification Conference of the Socialist Alternative and Socialist Struggle currents was held, internal tendencies of the PSOL and sections of the International Socialist League, LIS.
The Opening Act, made in the FETQUIM (Chemical Workers Federation), in the city of São Paulo, was attended by delegates to our Conference from the states of Pará, Ceará, Federal District, large northern river, Sao Paulo and Parana.
We received videos with internationalist greetings from our LIS comrades from different countries such as Ukraine, Belarus, Lebanon, Kenya, United Kingdom, Spanish state, France, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay and that were reproduced at the beginning of the act. Glauber Braga, Federal Deputy of the PSOL, He also conveyed his greetings, regretting not being able to be present on this occasion. Social and union leaders of the Social Pastoral of São Paulo took the floor, from the SJC Chemists Union, of the board of directors of the São Paulo Subway Workers Union and teachers. In addition to leaders of the left, MRT companions, GOI and PSOL teammates, Israel Dutra and Frederico Henriques from the MES leadership and João Machado from the Commune. The event closed with the interventions of Verónica O'Kelly and Douglas Diniz, of the National Directorate of Socialist Revolution, and Alejandro Bodart, of the International Secretariat and the Socialist Workers Movement (MST) from Argentina.
The path of unification began long ago at a fundamental confluence, we all understand that today, more than ever, without the existence of a strong revolutionary party, the conquest of power by the exploited and the construction of socialism, the socialist revolution, it is unimaginable. This is our strategy, our main challenge, and today we are stronger to face it.
Internationalism, only path to revolution
The LIS was the initial meeting point. This recent international project that recovers the history and tradition of Marx's revolutionary internationalism, Engels, Lenin y Trotsky, brought us together. In the LIS, one of the main definitions is precisely the constant search for confluences that unify the revolutionaries. Without ignoring the differences that exist in the revolutionary left, the task is that the convergences result in the construction of a revolutionary leadership in the world.
Unlike other international currents, we see a world full of struggles, uprisings, rebellions and revolutions of the peoples that respond to the attacks of the capitalist governments. The appearance of the extreme right that postulates and disputes more or less important sectors in each place, It is a phenomenon of social polarization that is deepening in the current stage. The systemic crisis of capitalism tenses the stage, leaving little room for bourgeois governments that need to apply their adjustment and austerity agendas, going against the conquests of the working class and the poor people. The masses reject these governments and go against their institutions and all this farce of bourgeois democracy, because these are your enemies, even those who with progressive speeches try to confuse and discipline the anger of the people who rise up. This is how the extreme right emerged at one pole and the rise of mobilization at the other.
that's why today, more than ever, the socialist revolution is a necessity and the construction of revolutionary parties, as a tool to use, it's an emergency.
In Brazil, a Broad Front government that does not excite us
Bolsonaro's electoral defeat was an achievement of the exploited and oppressed majorities of Brazil. But we well know that the opportunity to definitively defeat this project of the extreme right in the great events Fora Bolsonaro in 2021, was pushed to the electoral route. This opportunity was stopped by the betrayal of the PT, of Lula and of the entire left of the regime that channeled the mobilization against the genocidal government towards the institutionality. That is to say, they disciplined the mobilization, only real alternative to defeat the extreme right, and strengthened the institutions of the bourgeois democratic regime with the "Lula 2022" policy.
We have no illusions about the current government, the Lula-Alckmin government is not our government but the government of the businessmen who will try to, sooner or later, implement the pending agenda of rollbacks and unpopular counter-reforms. We do not have, nor do we sow expectations in the political will of this government to solve the real problems that workers suffer, women, lgbtqia+ diversities, blacks, Indigenous, youth. That's why we call everyone, any and all those who want to defend their conquests and fight for more, to fight this battle together and to build a true left-wing and socialist political alternative.
Fight for an independent PSOL
Socialist Revolution will continue to defend the founding project of the Socialism and Liberty Party, the party we built. Our unification is at the service of strengthening the radical left that is facing the liquidation of the founding project by the majority leadership of the PSOL. The unification of our currents is also a commitment to interrupt this process and recover the PSOL for the anti-capitalist struggle, regardless of class and a socialist program.
We know we are not alone. We know that there are more comrades, organized in currents or militating independently, who disagree with the destructive path taken by the majority leadership. It is to these men and women that we address ourselves to tell them that we still have time, we can still avoid the liquidation of the PSOL, we have to unite our forces and strike like a fist before it's too late.
Meet Socialist Revolution
A tool is born at the service of the construction of the revolution and socialism. Our project begins by reviewing the sectarian errors that unfortunately delay and cause much disappointment in the left vanguard, as well as the opportunistic errors that lead organizations to the inert path of bourgeois institutionality, elections and parliamentarism as an end in itself. What we are doing is only the beginning of a unit that can be much greater., that can grow and be strengthened to the extent that we are able to open up to work with diversity, democracy and firmness in the principles of revolutionary and internationalist socialism. Come with us to build Socialist Revolution!
