From the CTB, CUT, CSP-Conlutas, FS and all the trade union federations, together with the Homeless and Landless movements, we must organize...
WORKERS AND PEOPLE COMMITTEES TO GUARANTEE HEALTH, BREAD, WORK AND A DECENT LIFE FOR THE WHOLE WORKING CLASS AND THE EXPLOITED OF THE COUNTRY!
In Brazil, 200 million exploited are scorched by hunger, unemployment, misery, the growing repression in the countryside and the favelas, and now, with the Coronavirus, a pandemic is raging, which continues to grow, threatening the working class and their families with millions of deaths.
Bolosnaro laughs cynically at this and, amid the Coronavirus pandemic, wants to impose layoffs and mass suspensions by decree without compensation or wages guaranteed. Bolsonaro continues to mock the people and calls them to continue working and says there is no need to worry about “a little flu”. You murderous scoundrel!
Despite the “quarantines” that were decreed in several states, millions of slaves are sent to work to the factories and are in danger of infection and death. Neither Bolsonaro, nor the state or any of the boss politicians care about the life of the poor in Brazil; if thousands were to die of Coronavirus they are not moved at all.
We saw how they “fought” during the teleconference with the governors of the southeastern states, e.g. with Doria (governor of Sao Paulo) because of Bolsonaro's “lack of seriousness in the face of the pandemic”. This is nothing else but a true pantomime. Actually, both Bolsonaro and the governors pretend to be feuding but all of them agree it is the exploited who have to pay for the crisis and the pandemic.
Thus, he continues to burden the weight of the pandemic and the world economic crisis on the exploited. Besides, on all fours before his imperialist master he has openly placed Brazil under the US command (See box).
They agree on the workers’ continuing to be exposed to the pandemic and compel them to keep the production in completely unhealthy conditions. While 15 million exploited are looking for job, 50 million already suffer from chronic unemployment, more than 70% of the working class is in precarious or outsourced jobs. Only 30% of Brazil has access to clean water and less than 25% has public sanitation and sewers. This is how the majority of the working class and the poor peasants live. 50% of schools do not have basic sanitation or clean water. The health system is a disaster; every year thousands of exploited, mainly children, die from dengue, zica, chikungunya, measles and H1N1 flu.
While this happens, the leaderships of the trade union federations meet and reconcile with the Labor Minister, acting as government advisers in a joint plan to “face the pandemic”.
This is disastrous, since it prevents workers and their organizations from ensuring health and fighting the pandemic of workers and their families in public health committees together with scientists and health professionals. Unfortunately, when what is needed are workers’ and people’s Public Health Committees to confront the pandemic, the leaderships of the trade union federations go as advisers to the government.
To face the pandemic...
We do not delegate our health and the lives of our families to the slave bosses!
No truce with the capitalists!
It's them or us!
The Coronavirus pandemic is also used by the employers as a true blackmail to double the repression of workers, putting the police and the troops of the Armed Forces to guarantee the “quarantine”, terrorizing the exploited.
When it begins to become clear that no solution for the exploited can come from the capitalists, their regimes and governments, unfortunately the leaderships of all the trade union federations seek to solve the problem together with the government through an agreement and joint work between the Ministry of Labor and trade union federations.
The CSP-Conlutas, together with the leaders of all the union federations, has participated in this meeting with Bolsonaro’s Labor Minister to define “...actions to defend workers against the coronavirus”.
http://cspconlutas.org.br/2020/03/mpt-e-centrais-sindicais-discutem-acoes-conjuntas-que-defendam-trabalhadores-diante-do-coronavirus/)
An opposite path is beginning to be shown by the metalworkers from San José dos Campos (SJC) who, taking into account the struggle of the metalworkers in Turin and the whole of northern Italy, are on strike and preparing to guarantee the quarantine by stopping production without reducing wages or giving up their rights; the same path is being taken by the workers of the San Pablo, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre subways, while the oil workers’ strike is in the works, with the same demands. This is the path that the workers of Italy, France, Spain or England are already walking, who, with the method of the strike and the stoppages, have guaranteed the quarantine.
There is no truce with the capitalists! The leadership of the CSP-Conlutas, the CUT, CTB and all the trade union federations must break their conciliation policy and stop working together with the government! Let workers and popular committees stand up to organize independently of the capitalists and fight for all our demands.
To guarantee General quarantine for all workers, with payment of 100% of the wages. No dismissals or suspensions. The unregistered workers mustn't be laid off. They must be guaranteed a R $ 5,000 wages, paid by the employers, and are to be transferred to the permanent payroll! Jobs for everyone!
Quarantine must be paid for by capitalists and the state. Not a real to the foreign debt! Out with the IMF! Progressive taxes on large economic groups! There are the funds to guarantee a public works plan, under the control of the unions and the workers’ organizations, to build houses, install sewers and guarantee drinking water and hygiene conditions for the exploited!
Let's conquer supply committees from our struggle organizations to guarantee the livelihood of all working families and the poor people of Brazil. We must seize the meat, milk and soy that is in the hands of the landowners! It is necessary to expropriate without compensation all the lands of the fazendeiros to produce all the food that is needed for the people to eat with dignity! It is necessary to expropriate without compensation all the warehouses and supermarkets under the control of committees of workers and consumers, and to eliminate the marketing chain and all the intermediaries, to form a Single Supply System.
To face the pandemic, it is necessary to form a National Public Health Committee right now under the control of the unions and workers' organizations, which must convene the best professionals, doctors, nurses, scientists, workers from USP, UFRJ, UFMG and all universities and scientific and medical institutions, of pharmacy and biochemistry, to design a plan at the service of protecting the health of the majority of the population. This Committee must have full powers to execute the plan, above the government, parliament and judges.
Private clinics and sanitariums such as the Albert Einstein and the Syrian Lebanese in São Paulo must be expropriated without compensation and put under the control of their doctors and nurses! The same must be done with labs, in order to assure hospitals and clinics free supply of oxygen tubes, supplies and medicines for the prevention and care of the sick.
Against the misery and the pandemic that threatens us...
Workers must take the resolution of the crisis in our hands!
We must guarantee the execution of this plan from the CUT, CTB, CSP-Conlutas and other trade union federations. Therefore the leadership of our organizations of struggle must already break their agreement with the Ministry of Labor and put all their forces to conquer and guarantee it together with all militant poor workers and peasant organizations, coordinated by state and national level.
Along the path of SJC metallurgists who also have in their hands the possibility of hitting in the plexus not only Bolsonaro, but also the US imperialist transnationals installed in that region of the interior of São Paulo such as the GM, Embraer-Boeing, and Avibras weapons. Like the subway workers who guarantee the almost complete stoppage of transport in the main capitals of the country. They lead the way, as do the workers in Italy, Spain, etc. They demonstrate that it is with the method of the strike and the fight against the capitalists that the lives of the exploited and their families will be saved.
General strike NOW!
Out with Bolsonaro, his ministers and employers’ politicians!
Out with imperialism! Out with the IMF!
CROJA-FLTI
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Amid the social crisis and pandemic, the US is moving forward with its plan to recolonize Brazil
On his last visit to the United States, Bolsonaro has signed a military cooperation agreement with Trump by which he hands over the entire Brazilian military industry (the sixth largest light military industry in the world) to the Pentagon, for which he has already delivered the Embraer to the Boeing, and Guedes is preparing a large-scale privatization package and doubling the relaxation of labour laws to the maximum by imposing slave conditions on the working class, making Brazil a US colony. The government, its ministers, judges and all the bosses’ politicians strictly follow the plan of imperialism, while handing over the country and the military and aeronautical industry to the US imperialists. The former are all direct agents of the IMF and the World Bank, who are paid every real of the fraudulent public debt on hunger and the hardships of the exploited.
Today, the entire Brazilian military apparatus is under US command. Compared to this agreement, the military bases in Colombia pale. The coronavirus has accelerated this and created the best conditions for imperialism to launch this offensive.
The plan calls for a fierce offensive against the working class since this is a military and free trade agreement with the United States. Wall Street and the Pentagon make leonine demands: the pension reform was the beginning; Brazil must move forward with the tax reform to reduce the cost of production by more than 40%; at the same time, it has to move forward with the privatization of more than 140 companies, while plans to hand over Petrobras to Exxon and Chevron do not stop; and finally, the opening of the Brazilian economy must be guaranteed for the US imperialist transnational companies, thus making Brazil one more star of the US flag.
Now with the coronavirus, the military take to the streets throughout Brazil, as well as in Chile, Ecuador, Argentina... The US Southern Command has straightforwardly militarized Latin America. This is the response to the fighting that took place in Brazil, the revolutionary fighting of December 2017 in Argentina, and today the uprisings in Chile, Ecuador, Colombia... This is the response of the capitalists: Bonapartism and fascism.
Either the working class enters the combat in revolutionary actions or the military coup in Bolivia will be the starting point to impose the imperialists' plan on the entire South American continent, making Latin America a Wall Street colony.
BRAZIL AND THE ENTIRE LATIN AMERICA HAVE TO BE SOCIALIST OR THEY WILL BE WALL STREET COLONIES
CROJA-FLTI
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