On the acquittal of Lula and his possibility of running in 2022...
LULA: AN ESCAPE VALVE, BEFORE THE IMPENDING SOCIAL OUTBREAK AGAINST HUNGER AND UNBEARABLE MISERY
The great deception sustained by the Pelega (sold-out)
bureaucracy and the reformist left
The Minister of the Superior Federal Court, Edson Fachin, unilaterally lifted all the sentences against Lula, using the power called "monocratic decision", which can later be objected by the plenary session of the SFC.
Lula has declared publicly: "I am ready to drive Brazil out of this madness...". Meaning that he is already preparing for his presidential candidacy in 2022.
The PCB (Brazilian Communist Party), the PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil), Boulos, the pro-Stalinist currents of all kinds of the PSOL and the pseudo-anarchist movement, have expressed their joy before the ruling of the bourgeois caste of Justice. The PSOL has been openly appended to Lula's candidacy in 2022. The PSTU says that it is independent from the PT and Lula, but that it fights for democracy and for justice for the former president, without refusing to call to vote for him, if necessary; like the tero bird, it lays its eggs on one corner and screams on the other. The bureaucracy of the CUT, CTB and all the major trade unions have fervently acted as strikebreakers and intimidators of the workers in the factories, blackmailing them with dismissals and handing over all the collective agreements one by one.
Lula is an escape valve before an imminent social outbreak against starvation
The working class cannot wait until the next election to eat. Millions of exploited have been evicted, living with their families under bridges and in squares.
Why was Lula released from jail and now absolved, guaranteeing him to be able to run in the coming elections? The bourgeoisie knows well that they are playing with fire. Bolsonaro’s administration is being supported only by a small minority of the reactionary middle classes. The hungry stomachs of tens of millions of outcasts begin to awaken a generalized hatred, but the profound impotence before fierce division that runs through the ranks of the exploited has prevented this situation from outbursting.
The working class is suffering a historic offensive by capitalists worldwide. In Brazil, where almost 300,000 exploited have died for COVID-19 in a pandemic year and the situation keeps worsening, h youunger is imposed with an absolute centrality of those above and a terrible division among those below. This impotence and division is due purely and exclusively to the policy of subjugating the working class, the trade unions and the organizations of struggle to the "progressive" bosses and the bourgeois politicians of the PT, the alleged "Workers Party", like Lula and Dilma who have played a constant role as escape valves for the capitalists and the anti-worker regime in Brazil.
Today there are more than 70 million unemployed and more than 30 million underemployed, 90% of the workers do not have a union, they are working outsourced; youth do not have any kind of perspective, while the police and parapolice kill at will both in the favelas and in the countryside.
There is hunger! The prices of basic food, fuel, transport, taxes, etc. have skyrocketed constantly. Over 80 million are under the poverty line. Working families are under increasingly unbearable hardships, suffering the scourge of hunger.
But this was not done based on any docility of the exploited but on the fierce state-ization of the unions and the submission of the working class and the exploited to the bosses and the state by the leaderships. When the working class is under a relentless attack that will impose the most terrible conditions of misery and hardship in history, the leaderships of the trade union are one of the greatest guarantees for this attack to prevail, since they have just handed over the collective agreements and imposed the massive layoff of more than 30 million workers throughout 2020.
Lula's PT and the national capitalists, as faithful lackeys of imperialism, ruled for 13 years starving the people, sustained by the terror imposed in the factories by the pelegos of the CUT, CTB, FS, etc. and dressed as "anti-imperialist" by Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism; they come again to anesthetize, divert and if necessary advance in liquidating an action of the Brazilian pariahs for bread and a decent life, in order to safeguard capitalist property and the imperialist transnationals.
The New Left: A key role in the deception of Lula and the PT
The most practical way to see the state of the range of left parties that support this policy of collaboration with the bourgeoisie is by quoting the position of the PTS and its Brazilian group the MRT.Its position is:“Let's get out of the paralysis and organize mobilizations for the annulment of all the prosecutions and against the health crisis!” And they affirm in their article: “It is time the CUT organized a national plan of struggles. Given the annulment, for the moment, of Lula's sentences, it is necessary to strengthen the organized struggle of the working class, fortifying and massifying strikes against the lay-offs in Ford, establishing workers' control of the factories for the production of hospital equipment, such as masks and oxygen gas to supply hospitals, establishing a national law that prohibits layoffs, demanding an emergency assistance through a minimum wage for the unemployed, without any kind of counterpart of fiscal adjustments or cuts in health and education.
"Without trusting the SFC, which today returns Lula his political rights, which may also suffer a setback by the AGU (Advocacia Geral da Uneao=Attorney General Office, NT), that is, the authoritarian judiciary that was a pillar of the institutional coup of 2016 (a process that deepened poverty and unemployment, with economic and anti-worker reforms), which paved the way for the rise of the extreme right, it is essential that the trade union come out of quarantine and mobilize for a national plan of struggles in defense of the workers.” (http://www.esquerdadiario.com.br/Que-a-CUT-saia-da-paralisia-e-organize-a-mobilizacao-pela-anulacao-dos-processos-e-contra-a-crise )
In this article the nefarious policy of reformism is drawn in all colors. The policy that they will carry out in a chain of traitors from the union bureaucracy to the last militant of the renegades of Trotskyism is clearly outlined. No one can believe this pretense without it being inoculated as a poison among the ranks of the working class, the product of a new deception by their leaderships.
In the past the fight was "against the coup; Long Live Dilma", then "Free Lula", now "Impeachment against Bolsonaro" and "President Lula in 2022". Always at the feet of the regime, always against the interests of the exploited. The reformist Left defends the indefensible, but with all the intentions of clashing with the hungry masses and even being their detractors, as they already did in 2013, as they continue to do in Syria and the Middle East.
This policy is neither Brazilian nor indigenous. What we are witnessing with Lula in Brazil is the policy that has already been applied in the United States by Sanders and then Biden and the butchers of the US Democratic Party. We are at the gates of a preventive policy that the imperialist transnationals have framed up to cushion the inevitable social outbreak against Bolsonaro in the face of the unbearable living conditions of the Brazilian masses. We are seeing the PSOL carrying out the same policy that they carried out in the US with Pedro Fuentes openly joining Sanders.
Reformism and their PTS cockatoos openly say so, they went with Sanders-Biden before and now are ready to go with Lula. The uprising of the exploited is imminent. Siding with Lula is siding with the executioners who come to impose the imperialist plan.
Enough! The capitalists are attacking without mercy and they need to attack even more, but no one with a head on their shoulders and their children dying from starvation can believe that with Lula they will eat, that they will get their jobs back, or they will have housing, education and health, let alone wait for that to happen by voting in the October 2022 elections.
The Brazilian working class deserves a revolutionary leadership
The Brazilian working class has to go through this moment under fire from the enemy without the leadership it deserves. It has to set up this leadership in the middle of the class war that capitalists have declared long ago. It must stand up and break the ties of the leaderships that in the name of the working class bind them to its executioners. The working class has shed blood, sweat and tears to set up its fighting organizations such as the CUT and the PT, then the PSOL and the PSTU, the Conlutas and the Intersindical. The working class has fought restlessly to stand up and at every step they have betrayed what it has conquered in its struggle.
Before this sharp turn to the right of the currents of the New Left -proven to be currents of the labor aristocracy-, particularly those currents that claim socialism and the Fourth International such as the PSTU and dozens of currents of the PSOL, we say: they have promised us thousands of victories and instead, they have imposed millions of defeats. They were the ones who have degraded the clean banners of socialism and the Fourth International, placing them at the feet of Stalinism, the bourgeoisie and their regimes. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!
We are staunch defenders of the legacy of the Fourth International, which defined that: “There is not and there cannot be a place for it in any of the People’s Fronts. It uncompromisingly gives battle to all political groupings tied to the apron-strings of the bourgeoisie. Its task – the abolition of capitalism’s domination. Its aim – socialism. Its method – the proletarian revolution."
This unfortunate role played in the name of the Fourth International, leading PSOL to become an appendage of the PT, a party that is openly part of the bourgeois parliamentary regime and a spokesperson for Sanders of the US Democratic Party, has no turning back. The policy that leads the CSP-Conlutas to impotence from where the PSTU has paralyzed the forces of the unions, carrying forward single fronts at the top with the Pelega bureaucracy and paving the way for the division among the workers' ranks, while signing in the factories the same agreements as the CUT bureaucracy has no turning back. We cannot allow this to continue being done in the name of Trotskyism and under the clean banners of the Fourth International.
The Brazilian working class deserves a revolutionary leadership. The forces of youth and revolutionary workers who are no longer supporting these past leaderships cannot be dispersed. We call on the revolutionary forces that have not submitted their interests, and those of the working class, to the policy of class collaboration with the executioners. We need to unite the dispersed forces of the currents that defend the fight for the interests of the exploited by fighting for the proletarian revolution and not with the "democratic" bourgeois by anesthetizing the exploited.
We call to organize our forces to fight together to recover the revolutionary program and the Fourth International; we call the groups, tendencies and nuclei of workers and young revolutionaries in Brazil that have resisted this enormous turn to reformism by the renegade currents of Trotskyism.
Hugo Parreira
Comitê Revolucionário de Operários e Jovens para a Auto-Organização (Revolutionary Worker and Youth Committee for Self-Organization) (CROJA)
São Paulo, Brasil
Adherent to the FLTI
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