Out with Dilma, Lula, Cunha, Renan Calheiros, Aécio and the entire Congress. General elections now!
Workers and the working class, poor people, black youth of the periphery and working women, are outraged with the current situation in the country.
While we stand massive layoffs, unemployment, rise of rent, electricity, transportation and food prices, cut of rights and attacks to education and health, lack of basic sanitation, housing, and to make use of cities’ popular spaces, the bankers, the big companies and the corrupts make rivers of money.
Dilma-PT government, together with PMDB, Aécio’s PSDB, the National Congress and also the states’ governors, are fighting for the government, but they unite to attack and exploit workers and most of the people.
In front of so many corruption denounces, affecting Dilma, Lula, Temer, Cunha and Renan from PMDB, Aécio, Alckmin and Fernando Henrique from PSDB, and more than 130 deputies, most of the people reacted with major indignation to the nomination of ex-president Lula as Government Minister.
We cannot stay quiet in a situation like this. The working class has to take the lead of mobilizations to take them all out! We have to demand general elections, now, for every position: president, deputies, senators, governors. Everyone has to be changed.
We have to lead the demonstrations, because we cannot support FIESP or PSDB [1] events, which defend to change six by half a dozen[2]: they want Dilma out for Aécio or Temer to rule instead. There is also no sense in participating of the demonstrations defending Dilma to stay, as the ones called by the PT, CUT, PSOL and MTST[3].
The working class has to take the streets, stop the factories, cut the roads and demand ALL OF THEM OUT, general elections now, prison of all corrupts and corruptors, and also the end of layoffs, reduction of work shifts with no salary reduction, suspension of the external debt’s payment to bankers, to use that money for health, education, housing and basic sanitation instead.
Let’s mobilize and demand from our Unions to construct a general strike. Only with the working class at the head of this struggle we will be able to take down all these corrupts.
On to the struggle!
April 1st we will take actions, cut roads and demonstrate to say Enough! Let’s go together, demanding the fall of all of them, supporting CSP-Conlutas, Unity of Action Space, and several unions and entities around the country.
Notes:
[1] FIESP – Federation of Industries of São Paulo State. Located on the main street of São Paulo, Avenida Paulista, it has been the base of PSDB and right-wing demonstrators against the government, specifically during last days, where they concentrated to demand the fall of president Dilma through impeachment.
[2] Brazilian say which means to pretend to make a change to actually leave it all as it is.
[3] Ruling party and its Federation, and the so called “left parties”, currently arguing there is a coup ongoing to defend and, in action, support the government.
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Originally published in www.pstu.org.br
Translation: Sofía Ballack.
