Brazil: Defeat
the coup d’etat against
the government of Dilma on the streets!
the government of Dilma on the streets!
No confidence
in the government of the PT, organise
the workers to defend their rights and historical interests!
the workers to defend their rights and historical interests!
Frente
Comunista dos Trabalhadores / LCFI Brazil 12-12-2015
Reproduzimos abaixo a análise da conjuntura brasileira feita pela FCT, traduzida para o inglês e publicada na revista 21 do Socialist Fight, nosso irmão britânico, seção do Comitê de Ligação pela IV Internacional
In Congress the
right-wing pro-coup opposition in Brazil comes closer to getting the 2/3
majority they need to approve the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. In a
situation that seems like “nonsense” movies, the main corrupt
and corrupting forces in the country, who are linked to the coup plotters and
the pro-imperialist right, conspire to remove Dilma, accusing her of
corruption. Obviously, as corruption is endemic to all capitalist governments,
this issue is only used to justify the coup d’etat.
The right-wing
and pro-imperialist opposition wants to overthrow the government of the PT
because the US wants to recolonize the country by eliminating all the
historical rights of the working population. They want to outsource and
privatise absolutely everything that is profitable held by the PT government,
like the giant oil company Petrobras, without any limits or graduation. They seek to drastically reduce wages under
the blackmail of more than 10% unemployment and crack down savagely on all
strikes and manifestations of resistance. The seek to attack the working class
even more.
To achieve this
they use “anti-terrorism laws,” a requirement of imperialism that the PT helped
to approve. In the end, the overthrow of Dilma by the right will result in a
much greater defeat for the working class than to her and the PT.
Regardless of
the fact that the process has been initiated as political revenge by Eduardo
Cunha (PMDB), when the PT decided to support the impeachment of this corrupt
mafia president of the Federal Chamber, the coup in Brazil has been underway
for over a year and is an expression of the global competition for control over
the Brazil government in the current inter-capitalist Cold War. On one side is
US imperialism, NATO and Japan. On the other side is China, Russia, the
Bolivarian government and Iran. The conflict already has two open civil wars in
Ukraine and Syria and has caused various “regime change” or coups like
Honduras, Ecuador, Libya, Paraguay, Egypt, Thailand, Ukraine, Guatemala and
Romania.
Behind the
impeachment Dilma is the US Embassy; George Soros (who also sponsored the coup
in Ukraine); the richest capitalist in Brazil, Jorge Lemann, who owns one of
the largest brewers in the world, Ambev; the Party of the Brazilian Democratic
Movement (PMDB) and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), the big media
employers; the fascist right; the old military dictatorship and the evangelical fundamentalists.
Time is against
the government that chose to ally themselves with the employers rather than
with the workers. The PMDB, the principal party of the bourgeoisie, created
during the military dictatorship (1964-1985), which is led by the Vice
President to Dilma, Michel Temer, has moved to the opposition camp. The PT, who
believed that class collaboration was a policy that guaranteed government
stability, have seen allies turning into enemies who advocate the overthrow of
their government.
The coup will
triumph if the current PT’s cowardly, bourgeois tactic of passive adaptation is
maintained. As long as they prioritise the game of institutional conciliation,
where their mass organizations (CUT, MST, trade unions) have a mere supporting
role of staging unpretentious demonstrations which are not up to the fight that
must take place against the impending coup. Without actually resorting to the
mass movement and its methods as the main weapon in the fight against the coup,
impeachment is a “chronicle of a death foretold.”
Simply put, on
the streets there are more or less similar number of right wing protesters and
left. The bourgeois media will continue to play its role of greatly
exaggerating the right numbers and saying that it is ‘the people’ who are
putting forward the slogan “Out with Dilma!”. It takes more than mobilising
thousands in every capital, we need a national strike in the main categories,
unions and movements directed by the CUT, MST, UNE, MTST.
If we strike at
Petrobras, the Post Office, the metallurgical industries, banks, then yes we
will carry out an effective fight and crush the coup and sweep the reactionary
right off the streets. But the question is, can the thousands of CUT unions
rely on their bases to make a political strike against the parliamentary coup
d’etat? After years of class collaboration, is not the CUT too demoralized for
that? You have to try and get mobilizing workers to fight for themselves and
not in defence of a government and a party that has betrayed them and whom they
no longer trust.
Although there
are huge differences between the current process and the coup against Chavez in
2002 in Venezuela, the left turn of the Bonapartist Bolivarian government came
after the masses stepped in forcing the release of Chavez when he was held
hostage by the military and the businessmen plotters. The only force capable of
defeating the coup in Brazil 2015, as it was in Venezuela 2002, is the working
and poor people. In Dilma’s favour is the fact that her party directs the
country’s leading mass organizations, something that Chavez did not have back
in 2002.
If the
organized working class with its methods of struggle contains the coup then the
government of Dilma will be forced to depend solely on workers to survive then
she cannot again directly apply her anti working class policy of wage freeze
and the gradual destruction of all labour and social gains as she has done up
to now under pressure from the right and the big imperialist capitalists.
Simultaneously by defeating the coup workers will feel strengthened and gain
time to organise to defeat the whole neoliberal policy.
The defeats at
the hands of imperialism suffered this year by the national-populist left and
also the Bolivarian revolution in the presidential elections in Argentina and
in the parliamentary elections in Venezuela, respectively, are a key element of
international imperialist pressure on the Brazilian situation in favour of the right
and impeachment.
The
petty-bourgeois left, PSTU, PCB, current PSOL and satellites in this
constellation as MES / PSOL, CST / PSOL, EM (IMT) MRT-LER (FT),
programmatically collapsed before this crucial struggle for the fate of the
Brazilian working class. They follow a line of functional sectarianism to the
coup of pro-imperialist right, the same line that most of these groups had
supported when the mercenary pro-imperialist opposition of “revolutionary” and
“rebel” in Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
This petty
bourgeois left is divided between those who openly advocate “Out with Dilma!”
and those who want to wait fot the general election without interruption. Not
coincidentally this is the same line as the right-wing opposition, of Aécio
(PSDB), and Cunha (PMDB) and Paulinho of the union federation allied with the
bosses, the “Força Sindical”; those who are opposing the fight against
impeachment by advocating a supposed ideal third camp when the coup is in fact
the real world.
They spent the
turbulent year of the rise of the right claiming that the mounting coup threat
did not exist, that it was a delusion or a mere political trick by the PT. Now,
before the imminent coup danger, they say that regardless of whether it is real
or not, that the working class should remain oblivious of a political dispute
that will result in an even bigger attack on their living conditions.
Those who
cannot fight against the right, fascism and imperialism are completely
irrelevant to the workers; they do not care about the fate of our class. Defeat
the impeachment, orchestrated by the worst enemies of the working population,
the great capital and imperialism, which immediately has the Dilma and the PT
as their target, but will in the end have the working population as the main victim.
The only tactic that can work is one of struggle in defence of our labour and
social achievements and to defend the historical interests of our class.
This is the
tactic that facilitated the struggle for a revolutionary workers’ party, for a
real workers’ government, won through social revolution, for socialism!