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Proletarians
and oppressed peoples of the world, unite!
“The law of the people is to
fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again until victory!” — Chairman Mao
Tsetung
Massive protests explode across the country and a spontaneous mass
movement of hundreds of thousands takes the center of large cities and spreads
everywhere, shaking and panicking all the old order. A new phase of the
developments of the revolutionary situation is seen in protest and
rebellion!Major storms are approaching.
The final straw was the brutal
repression of the just and peaceful demonstration against the increase of the
bus fares in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The outrage spread
across the country and released popular anger no longer stifled by decades of
political demagoguery and constant barrage of misleading government propaganda
of a Brazil of great progress and improvement. When even television networks,
radio and newspapers trumpeted the popularity of President Dilma as the one
bringing full employment, creation of a new middle class, the development of the
country with a sound economy against the global crisis that sinks the world’s
largest economies – this suddenly exploded with the upheavals that arose as a
tsunami.
Amid the deep and prolonged general crisis of the imperialist
system that causes suffering worldwide, hitting hard working masses with mass
unemployment, making brutal cuts in hard-won rights, pushing them to the streets
by the millions, in a desperate fight for survival and resistance, repression
launched by the capitalist governments in client countries has been
unrelenting.
As a direct result of the contradictions and weaknesses of
the economy of our country, dominated and plundered by imperialism, the popular
revolt is the release of decades of screams stifled by the ‘eternal’ deception
of fraudulent elections and false left demagoguery (PT/Workers Party;
PSB/Brazilian Socialist Party; PCdoB/Communist Party of Brazil, etc). What
happened? A snap broke the charm of a truth found to be a lie repeated a
thousand times, and backfired, no longer the social anesthetic of bread and
circuses.
A cry of outrage echoed through the air
Starting from
the youth who were less numbed by all this brainwashing. The uprising of youth
against the odious police broke through the earthen walls of official pretense,
the popular revolt that broke through the suppression of dissatisfaction with
all this order of exploitation, inequality, and political privileges of the
rich, abusive authorities, widespread corruption, crime and insecurity,
precarious public health, education and transportation, subservience of rulers
to capital and foreign agencies (such as the current ‘state of exception’
decreed to serve FIFA), the massacres in the poor slums, and the massacres of
peasants and indigenous struggle for land.
Against the old state and its
managers and anti-people misleaders
The popular explosion brought to the
surface the dissatisfaction with every order of exploitation, abuse and police
violence in everyday life of the people. Low wages and rights courts, the
dictatorship of the gouging taxes on workers while the national budget favors
the banks and the rich at the expense of public health services, education and
public transport that are true garbage. The excesses and corruption, works
spending billions and overpriced to favor mafias contractors and election
finance, the spree of public money to banks and transnational corporations and
public debt which amounts to 3 trillion dollars. The indignation and revolt are
against this system of exploitation and its old state, its institutions and its
rotten and immoral rulers–lying, cynical, corrupt and betrayers of Brazilian
people.
A system of exploitation and repression
The system we live
in is the old exploiting classes and their state that for centuries oppress and
keep the people in poverty, delivering the wealth of our country to foreign
powers. System privileges of the rich and absolute injustice, deceit and
genocide of the poor. And the greatest proof of this was the arrival of the PT
in the federal government, that of ‘radical workers advocates’ who became the
newest hangman. To keep the imperialist world system dominating the countries of
Asia, Africa and Latin America, such as Brazil, which are enslaved to serve all
the interests of foreign powers and their monopolistic corporations and do what
they are told. For it was so constituted and structured as the Brazilian state,
dictatorship of the big bourgeoisie and landlords, to bring our people and our
homeland to submission.
But these old ruling classes, subordinate to
imperialism, could not always dominate in any manner and way- though, in its
history, they swung between moments of openly fascist regimes (New State of
Getulio Vargas; Regime of Eurico Gaspar Dutra; Military Regime 64, etc.) and
regimes “demo-liberal” (JK/Juscelino Kubitschek; Joao Goulart; Jose Sarney;
Fernando Collor; FHC/Fernando Henrique Cardoso; Lula /Dilma Roussef, etc.). In
recent decades, they need to trick the people by serving up a governmen system
of “democracy” or “democratic State of right”, they call it, although the
electoral process is phony and corrupt and and the bureaucratic institutions are
given “dignified” names of executive, legislative and judicial.
In fact,
this state is a machine for subjecting the people to accept this system of
exploitation, spreading the illusion that it is the people who elect their
representatives. A machine to extort and rob the people with taxes to fill the
coffers of the bankers and tycoons local and international, to deliver the
natural wealth of the country to foreign powers and to suppress the people who
defend their rights and fight the corruption and submission to imperial
powers.
We currently live under the propaganda that the country’s
democracy is consolidated and there is a full “democratic State of right”, that
only problem is that people elect corrupt politicians. This is the lie that the
people to blame for the corruption and underhandedness of the rulers. Opposite
the popular rejection of the political-electoral scam system, defenders of the
system say all that’s needed is urgent political reform to improve the
functioning and root out corruption. However, in the last 20 years in every
election, where voting is compulsory, tens of millions of citizens, one-third of
the electorate, have rejected this and boycotted the electoral farce by not
attending the vote, or by voting null or blank.
For the fact is that we
confront many lies, and more and more violence against the people. What we have
seen these days? Any popular demonstration in defense of the most basic rights,
such as protesting increased bus fares, is ruthlessly suppressed. The police
apparatus, is no longer content with beating people with batons, tear gas and
pepper spray and shooting rubber bullets – now the order is shoot to kill. The
police has never killed so many poor people in the city and countryside. The
killing of poor youth has become routine. For that people are rising in angry
protests and now all that popular fury has exploded across the country.
A
just moral revulsion to the rotten political parties and their thugs and
repulsive scoundrels
Therefore, in this system that we live in, to
participate in elections, to vote for one party or another, or one or another
candidate, is to give our endorsement to all the rot that is official policy.
Voting is legitimizing this old state and its bourgeois democratic system of
exploitation, oppression, poverty, violence and corruption. Voting is
legitimizing this current situation. This bureaucratic-bourgeois democracy is
false, narrow, hypocritical and corrupt. The millionaires propaganda say that
the vote is the power of the people to decide on their future – Lie, this is
pure cynicism and deception! The truth is that the people are forced to vote,
from time to time only to elect who will decide against their rights.
All
these parties which have been elected during the last decades (PDS, PMDB, PFL,
PSDB, PT/PSB/PST/PCdoB), from the “right” and those who call themselves the
center and ‘left’ they are all cut from the same cloth. They have different
party acronyms, these billionaires and leeches goading people with old
“bourgeois democracy” and its parliamentary cretinism. Acronyms, that they
debate among themselves with the largesse from the public treasury, but they are
united by the same program to serve capital. They are all, each in their own
way, to serve the interests of the big bourgeoisie, landlords and imperialism.
With all these parties and nothing has changed in the country, only the faces
and ways to cheat the people. But for the people, there is nothing but crumbs
and handouts.
The fight did not start now: Even before the latest
attacks, the people never stopped fighting
The official propaganda of
governments and unofficial bourgeois press never stopped saying that everything
was going splendidly in the country. That the economy was sound, there was full
employment, poverty is nearly gone, and soon would the majority of the
population will already be middle class. But underneath all this propaganda the
bitter reality of the country and the people is quite different. The facts are
stubborn. The prices of food, medicine and other basic necessities have never
stopped rising, inflation erodes the popular economy, and the absurd interest
rates remain the highest in the world. Unemployment depresses millions,
especially the young, and the false “land reform” government is yet another scam
and deception to the people of the countryside.
Diseases which were once
eliminated, return, and others, such as dengue, are spread in waves of
epidemics, killing hundreds of children and adults across the country. The
educational system has compressed salaries of teachers, as the health system,
civil servants and workers have also faced. The spread of easy credit has only
been one more illusion to deceive and impose brutal indebtedness on the people,
to hide the fragility of an economy producing commodities for export, completely
subservient to foreign powers and dependent on imported capital and
technology.
But the workers, public servants, teachers, students and
peasants, under the systematic and orchestrated campaign of criminalization and
repressive arrests and murders, and facing the direction of their own corrupt
unions co-opted by government, have never stopped fighting, and strikes and land
seizures have spread throughout the country.
In all parts of the country
echoes the cry of jail for the torturers of the military regime! Students from
across the country went on strike and occupied the rectories of universities
demanding an end to the dismal plans of the government called REUNI / PROUNI and
in defense of free public education in schools and universities. Workers,
teachers and civil servants held strikes over wages and better working
conditions. In large constructions of PAC/Growth Acceleration Program (a program
of Brazilian government); of the Jirau Hydroeletric power plant, and of Santo
Antônio Hydroeletric (both on the Madeira River, in the state of Rondonia, North
of Brazil); of the Belo Monte Hydroeletric Project (on the Amazon major
tributary, the River Xingu, in the state of Para, North of Brazil); of the SUAPE
Port (a Brazilian International port located in the city of Ipojuca, state of
Pernambuco, Northest of Brazil), the workers rose up in revolt, stopped work,
set fire to the house and revealed the slave labor conditions to which they are
subjected.
In the field “land reform” the government does nothing more
than repress the peasants and support the landowners. Only through the Agrarian
Revolution, taking into their own hands in an organized confiscation of the
landed estates, the peasants are conquering the land to work and produce and win
their freedom.
And now that the masses of the cities explode in riots and
could not be crushed with police repression which was strongly repelled by the
combatant youth - the poisonous media now orchestrates their psychological
warfare against the people. All this media is monopolized by the enemy of the
people. As they twist the images and messages of resistence, they only reveal
their fear, that all reactionaries tremble!
This scoundrel government
continues to do abusive vandalism against the people
The streets
demonstrate once again that the people, to ensure their interests, have to
impose them by massive and combative force. The authorities and the press who
attacked, discredited and criminalized the first protests, (just as they have
done for years against popular struggles in order to crush them), and haunted
and cornered by its explosive growth, now pose as the champions of freedom and
democracy in defense of peaceful demonstrations and hypocritically coax that
“the radicals are only a minority of vandals”. They try to frighten and
intimidate the protesters. They try to manipulate the public opinion with the TV
Globo always to the ahead of this practice . In their fear of public anger, they
now try and reap tame protests.
The people are attacking their enemies,
yes, the offices of governments and legislatures (dens of corruption and
excesses), banks (leeches of the people and the nation) and forcefully rejecting
the attacks of genocidal police troops. The episodes of looting by profiteers
and criminals transformed by this terrorizing press is only part of the sad
reality created by the same anti-social system that we want to bring down.
Vandalism is the same criminal activity as that bastard who kills people in
hospital queues, who starves the people, as the murderous police who shoot and
kill, who incessantly plundered the nation’s coffers and not gave even school
lunches to the children of the poor, handing the riches of the country’s natural
resources abroad, which sells the sovereignty and honor of the country to
imperialist marauders and even these “sports” mafias as FIFA.
To build
the new one must destroy the old
This is the struggle of peasants,
workers, students, workers, intellectuals, indigenous and small trademen and
producers, we are the majority and are millions! We fight this old rotten State
represented today by the Brazilian government’s PT / PSB / PMDB / PCdoB / PDT
and its support base, which commits all kinds of daily outrages and crimes
against our people. A fascist state that needs to be dropped altogether and only
a Great Democratic Revolution can destroy it and build another in its place new
and different, the State of New Democracy’s revolutionary united front, based on
the worker-peasant alliance along with all the exploited and oppressed.
Every
struggle and popular democratic revolutionary struggles should raise the defense
of the rights of the people by:
-General increase of wages to meet the
cost of living;
-Security and public retirement and integrals;
-Cheap
public transport, decent health and education;
-Against violence against
women, equal rights and the decriminalization of abortion;
Punishment for
criminals of the Military Regime, instigators and executors (civilian and
military) of torture, killings and forced disappearances;
-End of the
servile, menial work in agribusiness plantations, the PAC and
nationwide;
-Recognition and immediate demarcation of the territories of
Indigenous Peoples and Communities remaining Quilombo;
-Land for those who
occupy and work it;
-Stop the miners and their plundering of natural
resources and environmental degradation;
-Stop the bleeding of public
resources given to banks and transnational;
However we must emphasize that
our main claim is the Power.
Organizing people to make
revolution!
The question of democracy in fact, in other words, is the
establishment of a genuine Democratic Republic, was never fully resolved in
Brazil. Exploiting local ruling classes and their imperialist masters fear the
existence of a true democracy because that would mean the end of their domain
and its operation. But the class contradictions and the people’s aspirations for
democracy are large, imposing on the people and country this travesty of
democracy with dirty and corrupt elections and dragging the opportunist parties
to legitimize them. And every time the masses rise up they send repression with
one hand and with the other make the bla-bla-bla “dialogue”, the “negotiations”,
the “peace” of submission, the denunciation of the “violence” and the
“vandalism” of the exploited and oppressed. To make the change complete, the
people have to take power and defeat your enemies!
Brazil’s problems are
structural and secular; the solutions require radical and profound changes that
only the bold and permanent mobilization of the masses around a revolutionary
program can accomplish. Only an uninterrupted Great Democratic Socialist
Revolution can eradicate such exploitation, poverty, injustice and violence
against the working people. Do away wih this old state machinery of corruption
and oppression without delay, and stop the plunder by imperialism!
The
people can and will destroy this old power piece by piece, demolishing part by
part. If today people are able to mobilize hundreds of thousands in
demonstrations, which are large mobilizations, and learning, little by little we
can build solid organizations in workplaces and neighborhoods, unite with the
masses of poor peasants and the landless with little land who are fighting
tenacious struggle to bring forward the agrarian revolution, to destroy
landlordism inch by inch, to do justice, to liberate the productive forces of
the field, to produce and create the new revolutionary power.
The Great
Democratic Revolution urges that in our country can only win through a long
process, because our enemies are still strong, they are defended by police and
armed forces, supported by this bourgeois press and parties that monopolized the
old order and have the support of the imperialist powers, especially U.S.
imperialism. The people are unable to bring down our enemies with a single blow,
in a few months or days, even less from night to day. It is necessary to go to a
protracted struggle building the essential tools of the revolution, embryos of
the new power and new people’s state: the true Revolutionary Party of the
Proletariat, the Guerrilla Army and the Revolutionary United Front. Clandestine
revolutionary organizations, the Revolutionary Party is not to ask for votes and
priming deputies to rot in this sty with comfortable armchairs which is
bourgeois parliament, but built in the fire of class struggle to master and
apply science and class ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and firmly guide the
masses. The People’s Guerrilla Army to do the people’s war to overthrow the
enemy power and establish the new power in New Democracy. The Revolutionary
United Front to unify the revolutionary classes in the same Program
Transformations political-economic-social and cultural rights, to support the
people’s war, surround the enemy and defeat him.
The democratic
revolution — agrarian-feudal and anti-imperialist — confiscates all the lands of
the landlords, the whole bureaucratic capitalists (the big bourgeoisie) and all
transnational capital (imperialism), nationalizing these great properties and
concentrating them in the hands of the new state People who apply everything to
the establishment of a new economy, self-centered and self-sustaining, for the
general welfare of the people and the progress and independence of the nation. A
revolution is unleashed with the agrarian revolution, to destroy landlordism,
give the land to the landless and poor peasants with little land and ending the
semi-feudal relations that materially crush the peasantry and hinder the overall
progress of the people and the nation.
Down the fascist state and its
managers anti people and servants of imperialism!
Long Live the New
Democratic Revolution!
Long Live the People’s Revolutionary
Struggle!
Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People –
Brazil
Frente Revolucionária de Defesa dos Direitos do Povo –
Brasil
June 2013
Nota
– El siguiente comunicado de la Liga Contra la Agresión Imperialista
(BGIA) de Hamburgo (Alemania) e informe desde Suecia has sido extraídos
del blog Maoist Road (La Vía Maoísta) 
