The people want Dilma out, but they also want Temer out… not to mention Cunha, the thief who presides the Chamber of Deputies!
By PSTU Brazil.
The Chamber of Deputies has just approved the opening of Dilma Rousseff impeachment process. The project still has to go through the Senate, but it will hardly question the Deputies choice.
Dilma’s government has 82% disapproval among society. This is an expression of the rupture of the working class and most population with a government that was elected through electoral larceny, and once elected, did exactly the opposite of what she defended during her campaign. The massive rejection to a government of PT’s alliance with bankers, businessmen, contractors and their parties; a party that attacked the labor and pension rights, that has been implementing a brutal adjustment to protect bankers’ profits, and that is currently involved in corruption scandals.
Rejection is not only against Dilma’s government. It is also to the vice-President Michel Temer (PMDB), who does not count even 2% of vote intention, whose impeachment is supported by nearly 60% of the population. There is also an aversion for the President of the Chamber, the corrupt Eduardo Cunha (PMDB), whose withdrawal is supported by 77% of the population. So, there is a strong general feeling against the institutions and politicians. No one wants Dilma but also no one wants Temer, and even less Cunha.
Nevertheless, it was not for this reason the Deputies approved the impeachment, but as a product of negotiations, ‘conspiracies’, and all kind of promises made by Temer and the bourgeois opposition, including the promise of blocking Operation Lava Jato, which incriminates most part of the congressmen. The impeachment voting, last Sunday 17th, was a true horror show, a parade of hypocrisy and cynicism that showed pretty well the real face of the bourgeois democracy.
All of them out!
People also want the fall of the vice-president, Michel Temer. First, because Temer was part of Dilma’s ticket; he was also chosen due to a larceny. Second, because he is part of the corrupt party PMDB, allied to the burglar Eduardo Cunha, and he has a biography full of corruption scandals.
Besides, Temer has been building, together with bankers, FIESP entrepreneurs, and the other bourgeois opposition parties, like PSDB and DEM, a government program that seeks to retake and deepen the adjustment and the attacks currently promoted by PT’s government. Under the sleeve, for example, they have the Social Security reform, and the outsourcing project, created by his allied Cunha.
We cannot give one minute of truce to the temporary government of Temer. It is necessary to obstruct his administration. It is time to mobilize to kick out the entire corrupt National Congress, led by the thug Eduardo Cunha, who will become now, in practice, the new vice-president of the country. The National Congress, with 60% of its congressmen evolved in crimes that go from corruption to homicide, has not a minimum grade of authority to give the presidential sash to anyone at all.
The process does not end here. The show will continue. We saw the demonstrations last Sunday were really small, be them for impeachment, because some realized Temer will now take turn, or be them against Temer and for Dilma to stay.
On the government’s side
During last Sunday election, unhappily, PSOL Deputies aligned with the government and voted against impeachment. The vote for “no” to impeachment, in the midst of a polarization between these two bourgeois sectors, means, in fact, to take side next to the government. The argument of PSOL Deputies repeats the governments’ defense, about the impeachment being a coup.
Actually, there is no coup going on. What exists is a battle of a bourgeois sector led by the right-winged opposition, against another bourgeois sector, today in the head of the government. The impeachment is only being possible because the vast majority of the population and the working class broke with the government and wants Dilma out. These ‘coup thesis’ has no meaning but to blackmail the left-winged sectors, specially the youth and the base of popular social movements, for them to go out on the streets to defend a government that is simply indefensible.
A position aligned to the interests of the working class must be denouncing both sectors.
General Strike to take them all down!
PSTU has been affirming the necessity of a general strike to throw them all out, to defeat the adjustment. The working class today is capable of taking such strike ahead and ensure general elections. This was evidenced with the workers paralyzing the production of factories with this slogan, as it happen in General Motors, Embraer, and other factories of São José dos Campos (São Paulo), or in the construction works, with thousands of construction industry workers, in Belém (Pará).
Now, with Temer one step away of assuming the presidency in conspiracy with the bourgeois opposition, and presenting a clear program of attacks to the workers, the PSTU reaffirms it is necessary for the CUT, CTB and MST to break with the government and stop defending it, and gather forces with CSP-Conlutas and the Space of Action Unity instead, calling for a general strike to paralyze the country, stops Temer’s assumption, and demands general elections for the people to take them all out.
All to the streets on May 1st!
CSP- Conlutas and other entities, members of the Space of Action Unity, are calling for a major demonstration of May 1st, Workers’ Day, in Avenida Paulista. It will be a great demonstration against Dilma’s government, and against Temer, PSDB and the National Congress too, in favor of a working class alternative to the crisis.
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Translation: Sofía Ballack.
