Brazil

For an internationalist struggle May Day
and for the world socialist revolution

For the martyrs of Chicago
and for all the martyrs of the world proletariat

• STAND WITH THE HEROIC SYRIAN RESISTANCE, ELEVEN YERS AFTER THEIR GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
  
  
• STAND WITH THE WORKING CLASS AND THE EXPLOITED FROM UKRAINE FACING JACKAL PUTIN’S INVASION
  
  
  • STAND WITH THE WORKING CLASS AND THE CUBAN YOUTH THAT ROSE UP AGAINST THE CUBAN CP’S NEW BOURGEOISIE, WHO STARVE THE WORKERS
    
    
  • STAND WITH THE VENEZUELAN WORKING CLASS AND THE WORKERS OF SIDOR FIGHTING AGAINIST MADURO’S STARVATION GOVERNMENT

   

  This May Day, International Workers' Day, finds the international working class under a brutal attack by imperialism, which seeks to make the world's exploited pay for its monumental crisis. This deepens every day: capitalists’ rate of profit has fallen vertiginously, and imperialism tries to stabilize its domination regime, supported by the worldwide treacherous leaderships that sold out the revolutionary struggle of the masses who rose up and resist in different focus of the planet such as Latin America, the Middle East, Africa in 2019 - 2020 and even in the United States putting the working class and the black people, who had made Trump and Wall Street tremble, at the feet of the butcher Biden.
  In the midst of the economic recession, in a market that has shrunk, what it is added to the catastrophe of the capitalist-imperialist system, it is a social crisis and a true humanitarian catastrophe for the world’s masses. The productive forces under the control of this rotten world economy have stagnated and deteriorated to extreme degrees, while millions of starving people do not find a way to survive plunged into the most absolute misery throughout the planet.

  “Under these conditions, imperialism concentrated all its forces in Syria and Ukraine. In Syria, to crush the masses and cut the chain of revolutions that threatened to sweep away the state of Israel and set fire to the entire Mediterranean. They massacred the revolted people, bled the Syrian nation, divided it and occupied it with Putin, Turkey and the US, using the good services of the fascist Al Assad”.
  “They also turned their forces to Ukraine. They used Putin in the Minsk Agreement to split that nation and keep the gas businesses, expropriating the mass uprisings of 2014. Thus, they prevented the unity of the working class of Eastern and Western Europe, and on the other hand, the United States have not allowed France and Germany to consolidate their living space throughout Europe.” (http://www.flti-ci.org/english/iwo/ukraine-april2022/index-supple-iwo-ukraine.html)

  In these moments hard defeats are imposed on the world working class. 11 years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Putin, the sepoy of imperialism who imposed a genocide in Syria together with the fascist Al Assad, entered blood and iron to crush the revolutionary workers' uprising in Kazakhstan last February and over two months has passed since a bloody invasion in Ukraine started.
  As a result of the crisis of revolutionary leadership, a decadent and rotten system that deserves to die, survives in its agony, as Comrade Trotsky and the Transitional Program correctly stated, … “because the opportunist character of proletarian leadership: its petty bourgeois cowardice before the big bourgeoisie and its perfidious connection with it”.

  In the face of the crash, despite the thousand and one betrayals, the masses have never stopped fighting and waging very fierce battles...
  The leaderships, servants of imperialism, the bourgeousie and the anti-worker governments, have sold out their struggles and closed the road to of the revolution of the revolution

  The working class and the exploited have not stopped facing the attacks of the bourgeoisie on their conquests. Those who posed as allies of the proletariat were the ones who caused the worst defeats, diversions and wear and tear on the enormous mass offensives. These leaderships of Stalinists and renegades of Trotskyism who acted as true traitors and even as a fifth column against the best revolutionary fighters as we saw in Syria and Ukraine.
  If the working class does not win, it is because of a perfidious policy of the so-called “popular fronts”, democratic fronts with which the workers' organizations are submitted to the so-called “progressive” governments and bourgeoisies from the bourgeoisie.

  This is the deadly trap being prepared in Brazil by the leadership of the PSOL and the reformist currents that have kneeled before Lula-Alckmin candidacy. These are the same ones who called to trust Boric in Chile and Castillo in Peru. Today we see Boric keeping thousands of fighters of the 2019 revolutionary uprising behind bars, ruling hand in hand with the Pinochet officials and repressing the youth and workers in struggle with the cops, faithfully caring for the interests of the transnationals that loot and starve Chile. As we have also seen Castillo free the jackal Fujimori and ferociously repress the masses in the struggle in Peru, as a faithful servant of the IMF and imperialism in Peru. Today in Colombia, we see how both Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism from the UIT and the LIT, for example, support Petros's candidacy, just as they did with Castillo and Boric.
  These Stalinist and renegades of Trotskyism leaderships were the ones that imposed a continental front of class collaboration from the US to Chile. They are responsible for taking victory out of our hands. These Stalinist parties were supported on the left by all the renegades of Trotskyism in Latin America disciplined from Havana.
  Today we suffer these betrayals in our continent with the '89 for Latin America with the capitalist restoration in Cuba, as it was the capitalist restoration of the USSR, China and all the workers' states by the Stalinist scourge. Today we are suffering the surrender of the Cuban revolution and the capitalist restoration on the island by the Stalinist-Castro bureaucracy, based on the Obama-Castro pact supported by the entire world Left.

  That is why today we are side by side with the workers and the Cuban people who on 11J 2021 rose up against hunger, against the anti-worker Government of Diaz Canel and the new bourgeois of the Cuban CP.
  According to official figures, over 500 exploited were imprisoned after the hunger uprisings of 11J. Unconditional and absolute freedom of the Cuban prisoners sentenced to extremely harsh convictions and end of the repression by the Stalinist henchmen of the Cuban CP!
  Against so much betrayal, selling out and subjugation of the exploited to their executioners, we the internationalist Trotskyists fight for the victory of a new socialist revolution in Cuba that will triumph with the victory of the working class in all Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean and the United States. We fight to recover the worker and socialist Cuba as a hallmark of the Latin American and world revolution. For 1, 2 for 3 Vietnam! As Che Guevara used to said.

  On this May Day...
  WE HAVE TO BREAK THE SUBMISSION TO THE BOURGEOISIE AND IMPERIALISM! DOWN WITH THE STALINIST LEADERSHIPS, COLLABORATORS AND DELIVERERS OF THE COMBAT OF THE WORKING CLASS! DOWN WITH THE UNION BUREAUCRACY! OPEN THE ROAD TO THE WORKING CLASS! OPEN THE ROAD TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!

  The class collaboration policy has led workers' uprisings and struggles to dead ends and prevented a revolutionary and socialist solution to the collapse of the world capitalist system. Today, in the name of "socialism" we see Chavism, hand in hand with Maduro, violently attacking the Venezuelan working class, which led to hunger, catastrophe within Venezuela and the emigration of more than 6 million Venezuelans who travel the continent as outcasts. This imposture supported by the entire world Left and its terrible consequences are not suffered by the leaders, but by the working class and the exploited. It is against them that the steel workers of SIDOR stand up. We call to set up a regrouping pole of the working class of the entire continent together with the steel workers of SIDOR!

  They, together with the workers and exploited in Cuba, are leading the way to confront the brutal attack by imperialism and the Bolsonaro government in Brazil, which Lula-Alckmin is preparing to finish imposing with the PSOL’s support, which is ready with Boulos and company to govern together from the Parliaments and the governorates.

  On the other hand, we see the "Socialist and Revolutionary Pole", which proclaims the struggle against the government in the streets and for class independence, preparing not the struggle and unity of the workers' ranks to sweep away the exploiters, but  an electoral campaign and “independent” candidates together with the Communist Party of Brazil and Popular Unity, that is, together with those who openly defend the repressive and jailer government of Díaz Canel in Cuba and Maduro in Venezuela. Within this pole, there has been a unification of currents such as the MES of the PSOL, which with its Secretary of International Relations, Pedro Fuentes, went to propose to Sanders to organize a common party throughout the continent and then all together called to vote for Biden. For the LIT and the ITU this is not a problem, since they have also supported Boric and Castillo, as they do today with Petros in Colombia.

   

  This way they do not organize a Pole for the Revolution or for Socialism, but instead legitimize the electoral trap and call to vote for Lula-Alckmin on the ballotage. This is how they want to re-tie the working class and the exploited in Brazil. ENOUGH SUBMISSION OF THE WORKING CLASS TO THEIR EXECUTORS!

  This May Day, the Brazilian working class must resume the combat of 2013 to the cry of THEY DON'T REPRESENT US. We must re-establish, as in 1978-80 fighting the dictatorship, the Strike Commandos and the Factory Committees unified by region and at national level.
  The working class of Brazil fights, in the iron and steel companies such as the CNS of Volta Redonda, in the metallurgical companies of San José dos Campos, in the automotive companies of ABC and in dozens of combats throughout the country, in the same way as the poor peasants resist the siege and the offensives of the fazendeiros (landowners). WE HAVE TO CONQUER THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS UNITY.
  We must set up organizations of power from those below, move forward in the creation of organizations made up of elected delegates in every factory, company, school and in the countryside, calling on the rank and file soldiers, children and siblings of the workers and the poor people to turn their arms, go over their generals and officers, putting their weapons at the service of the exploited in each country.

  The last word has not been said. The powerful Brazilian working class is determined to occupy a decisive historical role in the struggle of the exploited of the South American continent to get rid of the submission and plunder of imperialism imposed by the treacherous leaderships. History will be written by the class struggle, which will be stronger than any apparatus and will give Trotskyists and revolutionaries a thousand opportunities to regroup our forces at the international level. The task of the moment is to set up revolutionary Leninist, militant and pro-uprising parties! We must recover the World Party of the Socialist Revolution, under the banners of the Fourth International, and its founding program of 1938, from those who buried it in the mud of reformism alongside Stalinism!

  FOR A WORKER, SOCIALIST AND INTERNATIONALIST MAY DAY UNDER THE FLAGS OF THE IV INTERNATIONAL!