Brazil– November 10th, 2019
“Free Lula"
It is a valve to decompress and deviate, to prevent any tentative combat from the workers and exploited against Bolsonaro
In a meeting in the Metalworkers Union in the ABC (Industrial belt of São Paulo), in front of a multitude of the same dimension as when he surrendered last year to the authorities, Lula called to keep calm and wait until 2020, when it would be possible to "defeat" Bolsonaro in the ballot-box.
With the direct support of the entire union bureaucracy of CUT, CTB, Força Sindical, of the student centrals, UBES and UNE, of the PCdoB and PSOL, the meeting reunited more than 50,000 people.
In a true "electoral campaign" meeting, and wraped in a profuse verbiage, Lula appeased the exploiters in the middle of a most reckless attack of the bosses to the workers and the exploited; all among convenient ornaments "against (Judge) Moro", "against Bolsonaro", "against Trump", he said essentially, "I am sure that if we are sensible and know how to work in the right way, in 2022, the so called left that Bolsonaro is so afraid of, will defeat the extreme right..."
That is, both a circus and a true infamy that were supported very fervently by all the New Left forces, together with the Bolivarians, from Bernie Sanders to F&F, Morales, Maduro and Correa, to Marcelo Freixo and Guilherme Boulos of the PSOL to the Stalinist parties (PCB and PCdoB).
They have painted Lula red, and as "a savior of democracy" for deceiving and distracting the exploited through submission. In the name of "Free Lula" the struggle was prevented and the attacks could be imposed of the first 300 days of the Bolsonaro government.
Now, a free Lula called people not to fight, in a meeting that joint together the leaders of the worker organizations and the left currents that refused up to now to fight Bolsonaro and will guarantee from now on the governance till 2022, with the objective of defending a Lula's candidacy they want to make appear as the sole way-out for defeating the "extreme right".
It is a guessing if Lula will be able to deceive the people. Nor is it written that the working class will submit itself and let be enslaved by the bosses peacefully while waiting for new elections. Though, the role of support to the regime and even to the same Bolsonaro government Lula came to play with they steady support of the union bureaucracy and the reformist left.
Free Lula is the decompression valve that comes to prevent the masses from confronting Bolsonaro in the same way as in Chile against Piñera, in Ecuador against Moreno, or in Haiti against Möse.