Brazil -  April 7th, 2016

ON LULA’S IMPRISONMENT

For 13 years, Lula and the PT, together with Temer, the Workers' Pastoral of the Church, the PMDB and other bourgeois parties, managed the businesses of the transnational companies and the IMF in Brazil.
Now, in the middle of the economic crash, the US, with the sabers of the generals, their judges and their puppet government, come to manage their businesses directly...

The so-called “democratic front” of the leftist parties with the bourgeoisie and the priests kneels down before their bosses

The imperialist offensive and the infamous regime of Brazil's giveaway to imperialism,
The generals whowave their sabers and the "democrats" who only deceive the people, are defeated
WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERALSTRIKE
WITH THE WORKER AND PEASANT AND THE POOR PEOPLEALLIANCE

The counterrevolutionary generals and judges are defeated with
THE WORKER MILITIA AND THE SOLDIERS COMMITTEES

In Brazil, in Latin America and around the world,
Those from above come for all,
We have to go for all of them!

Lula turned himself in to Moro and the generals, guarded by the reformist left, the union bureaucracy, Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism. The PSOL, with its candidate for President Boulos, was the star - along with the priests- of the sellout stage. This is how the so-called "anticapitalists" of the French NPA, servants of imperialism in France and, with their partners of the Latin American left of the PSOL, also of the native bourgeoisies, act.

However, Lula turnedhimselfin to the capitalists a long time ago. He was the head of the judges, the generals and, together with the PT, he commanded the businesses of the transnational companies and imperialism in Brazil, in Mercosur and throughout Latin America.
For 13 years the PT ruled with the bourgeoisie. Now the US imperialism comes to manage its businesses directly and asks its managers to give back the change they kept.
As every man of the bourgeoisie, Lula fears more the armed masses and a general strike than the generals and judges who want to arrest him. He prefers to be imprisoned rather than defeating the State and the infamous regime of Brazil.
That is why there was no call from the CUT to the working class, no call to the general strike. Lula and Brazil's national bosses know that the masses in revolution would question the business and looting of imperialism like those of the native bourgeoisie as well.
In the huge open political crisis, the ruling classes are divided around how to keep on attacking the masses and plundering the countrybest: if it is with deception and lies of the PT class collaboration or with the saber of the generals. In any case, both are indispensable: the PT and the native bourgeoisies deceive and the transnational companies and their judges launch the worst attacks on the masses. By submitting to the will of the judges, Lula has done nothing more than legitimizing the pro-imperialist justice that attacks the exploited.

The front of the workers organizations with the bosses’ parties such as PDT, PSB and PMDB, which speaks of defending "democracy", has only chanted "siren songs" to disorganize the masses and stop their offensive for their demands and interests. The ruling of an oligarch judge and the threat from the generals were enough for the "anti-coup" to run to kneel down.
Meanwhile, the working class suffers the last labour reform and the sellout agreements signed by the CUT bureaucracy with the big bosses. The traitors of the CUT bureaucracy did not call and won’t call to the general strike because they would immediately have to put themselves at the head of the struggle against labour market relaxation and decent work against all the bosses and the IMF.

If the working class remains tied to the "democratic front" with the bosses' parties, it is obliged to renounce beforehand to its own demands against wage slavery, labour market relaxation, the high cost of living and the struggle for land.
This "democratic front" disorganises every offensive of the working class and its path to the general strike, before the brutal attack of the capitalists and the IMF on their gains.
The only alternative is to break with the bourgeois parties, which reduce the strength of the working classto zero. This prevents the workers from conquering an alliance with the middle classes that are ruined by the bankruptcy of Brazil submitted to the IMF.
In that "democratic front" the working class isolates itself from all the exploited of the nation. They will only find the solution to their problems if all transnational companies and the IMF that plunder Brazil are expropriated without payment and placed under workers control.
The task of the moment is no other than to break with the bourgeoisie and advance in setting up the alliance of the workers organizations, i.e. their unions, their organizations of struggle and the movement of poor peasants.

Break with the IMF! Expropriate the land to oligarchs and transnational companies!
Dissolve the judge caste of USA!
Defeat Temer and the generals who show their sabers!
These are tasks that only the working class and the exploited in Brazil can carry to the end. Only a worker and peasant government will be able to sweep away the corrupt judges, the US and end with the colonized Brazil.

It would be enough to call to a Congress of rank and file delegates of the trade union federations, of the landless, of the homeless, of the students, to put Brazil on the side of the exploited.
It would be enough with a brave call from the CUT and the PT to the rank and file soldiers to arrest the murderous generals.
It would be enough with arevolutionary general strike for the reaction to run like a rat.
The tragedy is that the PT and the CUT bureaucracy defend the businesses of imperialism and the bankers, together with them.
To defeat the reaction,we must break with the bourgeoisie and conquer a national struggle command of the trade union confederations and the workers parties, but not to negotiate with the reaction, but to conquer the general strike to kickTemer and imperialism out; to conquer the bread, the earth and the roof for the oppressed.

Imperialism is reaction all along the line. Monopolies always want to impose the most totalitarian government they had at hand to collect their profits and the fraudulent foreign debt in Brazil.
The struggle for the most minimum demands and the defense of the democratic freedoms is in the hands of the workers and the poor. It can be only defended with the method of the relentless class struggle against all the gangs of the bourgeoisie that got rich at the expense of the starvation of the people.

Open the road for those of the below!
Workers and peoples’ alliance!
Self-defense committees against the murderous polices!
Rank and file soldiers to discharge the murderous officers of the Brazilian genocidal army!

CROJA,
Supporter of FLTI-CI