Dilma’s separation of the presidency and the assumption of Temer, opened a new conjuncture in the political situation of the country. The political crisis of the government and the regime, opened in June 2013, got aggravated due to the economic recession, plus the unemployment and the inflation rates, and tends to intensify with a new government that takes turn with no popular support whatsoever.
By PSTU – Brazil
The political crisis is a product of the major popular discontent of the workers and the youth, looking for changes on the streets, strikes and occupations. But they do not receive response from the governments.
Dilma and the PT argument there is a coup, a conservative wave, just to hide their sorrow and try to recompose their base of support. The working class broke with the government as it saw what is the real outcome of the class conciliation project defended by the PT: the continuation of the neoliberal economic policy and the social inequality in the country.
The lost of support by Dilma’s government led to the impeachment, as the government had no conditions to rule imposing the pro-bourgeois adjustment it was trying to, so it had to be discarded. Changing six for half a dozen, the new government tries to rush the implementation of the adjustment policies and other attacks to workers. However, it does not seem Temer will have better luck than Dilma. Rejected on the streets, he will face major difficulties trying to impose himself as government and overcoming the inter-bourgeois crisis, which also took down Eduardo Cunha, once again confirming there is no coup going on, but a major inter-bourgeois crisis.
The economic and political crisis is part of a new situation in South America as a whole; a situation of crisis and ruptures with the governments and the reactivation of workers’ struggles.
Macri’s government, recently elected in Argentina, already faces powerful demonstrations against the rise of prices. Temer assumes in a similar situation, needing to implement plans of strong attacks to workers. He already announced several measures, among them the reform of Social Security. Nevertheless, workers will not pay for the crisis. The bourgeoisie did not manage to closet he situation opened in June 2013. The tendency is for the situation to deepen, with an increase of the social polarization. On one side, more misery and attacks; on the other, more workers’ reaction. On one side, stronger and more radicalized struggles, even on its methods; on the other, criminalization and extreme right embryos, like Bolsonaro.
More than ever, we should follow the example of the Greek, French and Argentine workers, currently confronting their government and the adjustment plans. It is necessary to unify the struggles and to build a great general strike to put Temer, Renan [Calheiros], Aécio [Neves], Bolsonaro and all of them out; to put them all out, to stop their austerity plans, and to demand general elections now, with new rules.
It is necessary to demand from the CUT, the CTB, the MST and the labour bureaucracies to call for a general strike against the attacks and in defense of the worker’s Rights, and not defending “Come back Dilma”, because it divides the workers, and it will be an obstacle to develop the struggles.
Neither Dilma nor Temer: only a classist field can make our struggles and conquers to move forward. Workers cannot choose between two bourgeois fields with the strategy of class conciliation.
We have to strengthen the Space of Unity of Action and the CSP-Conlutas, in the battle for strengthening an independent field of the workers, an alternative for the construction of a workers’, socialist power, with no bosses and no corrupts.
The left must take lessons of the PT degeneration process; otherwise, we walk towards new PTs. The PSOL, by presenting a program among the limits of capitalism, walks straight to repeat the same mistakes as the PT did. In this frame, a policy of wide alliances, as the one expected for next elections, will lead to class collaboration governments. We have seen this movie before.
It is possible to bet on the construction of new tools for the workers’ and youth struggles; to move forward regarding self-organization and workers’ democracy in the strikes, the occupations, the factories and schools; to build the CSP-Conlutas as an alternative to the pro-government Federations. Only through mobilization we will advance in the construction of organisms like popular councils, for the government to be in the people’s hands, to put the workers and the people in power.
Along this process, we need to build a revolutionary, socialist, workers’ party. The struggles that already exist and tend to deepen in Brazil and in Latin America, plus the progressive rupture process of the working class with the PT, demand to embrace the goal of the socialist revolution.
We have no right to repeat the mistakes of the PT. Our task is not to refund a class collaboration party, as the Popular Brazil Front [FBP] aims to, neither to build electoral parties for which the election is a priority against direct actions, and whose horizon stands in the bourgeois democracy and reforms to this putrid system that only produces more unemployment and inequality.
We call all strugglers currently on strike and occupations to put the slogan “Temer out!” right on the streets. Out with all of them, and general elections now! Let’s raise the flag of the socialist revolution, and struggle for a workers’ government base don Popular Councils, relying on the struggles of the ones below.
This is the path to a true social transformation.
Editorial of Opinião Socialista n.° 517, May 19th, 2016.- www.pstu.org.br
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Translation: Sofía Ballack.
