From the Latin American and Caribbean Committee of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), we repudiate the actions and the coup attempt. We stand in solidarity with the workers and popular sectors of Brazil and call for active mobilization in solidarity against any action that affects their rights and democratic freedoms.
The violent occupation and seizure of the buildings of the three branches of government in Brasilia last Sunday is a new link in the crisis of power that has prevailed in Brazil – and in the region – for decades. Since Lula’s narrow electoral victory, Bolsonaro’s strategy began by ignoring the result together with the consequent call for an active boycott action, trying to prevent the normal start of the new government and generate conditions of ungovernability or dual power. Since last October, blockades and the burning of premises followed one after the other, up to the point of camping in front of armed forces barracks, trying to drag them into an open coup action. Although they have not yet succeeded in the latter, with the seizure of Brasilia they are also conditioning the majority right-wing opposition in the chambers towards a destitute position, at the same time they are giving a clear signal of how and where to go and that they are willing to advance even outside the institutional frameworks.
It is clear that the reactionary forces led by Bolsonaro are a real threat to all the Brazilian people, who have the support of powerful sectors of the ruling classes- especially agribusiness and mining-, with real strength in the main regions , with power in Congress, counting on the active support of different police and military formations and bodies, in addition to militias formed under a growing period of proliferation of weapons among the civilian population, driven by the “need for self-defense”, oiled by Zionism and blessed by most of the evangelical churches.
Unlike previous experiences led by social democracy and social movements, the government coalition headed by President Lula, intends to confront these reactionary forces willing to do anything, with a recycled team of new fighters together with members of the reaction itself such as Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, former ultra-liberal adjusters and operators of the right wing that already removed them from power and imprisoned them, such as advisors and former presidents Enrique Cardozo and Michel Temer.
In every crisis there is an opportunity: what to do?
In this highly confrontational crisis with the framework of a new world recession and new military confrontations, which has several scenarios in the region, the need of important sectors of the ruling classes to advance further in the plundering of natural and human resources, in the face of an ecosystem on the verge of an irreversible situation and a population fed up with being starved and adjusted, is manifested.
The reaction seeks to advance, using and forcing the formal limits of a restricted democracy controlled by the oligarchy, which has long ceased to be an effective tool for popular welfare and national development.
It remains, therefore, to regain confidence in the working and popular forces, in their most conscious and determined elements, to come out independently from the institutionalist and bureaucratic paralysis to which the “progressive” ideas have led them, and to assume that the struggle for the defense of their social and political rights is given and won in the street actions.
Before the reactionary forces that try to put on the defensive, not only the limited and conciliatory government of Lula but the mass movement itself, what remains -as our peoples did in different rebellions and the heroic people of Peru- is to accept the challenge and massively lead the frontal combat against all reaction in all scenarios, seeking both its defeat and the consolidation of a true democracy for the workers and the people.
Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean International League of Peoples’ Struggle
January 11, 2023
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