For a United Front of
Struggle! Organize a General Strike and Popular Uprising Now! No to the Ongoing
Coup of the Ruling Class! For a Workers’ and Popular Government!
1. The Temer government is in
a deep crisis. What everybody already previously knew has now been proven by
audio tapes. Temer himself, as well as other leading figures of the government,
are deeply entangled in the web of corruption of the ruling class; grotesquely
so, as this government itself illegitimately came to power last year under the
banner of the "struggle against corruption" which in fact was an
institutional coup d'état against the elected PT-led government of Dilma
Rousseff.
2. The real reason for this
coup was the desire of the ruling class to accelerate the attacks on the
working class and the popular masses. This is why Temer wants to push through
the widely despised labor and pension reforms. These reforms would destroy our
social gains for which we fought so hard in the past!
3. Given the popular
resistance against these reforms – including the biggest general strike for
decades on 28 April with 40 million people participating – the ruling class is
now prepared to let Temer fall. They will try to continue their coup and to
enhance its achievements for them, via parliamentary maneuvers (and with lots
of bribery!) to bring another hard-line reactionary figure to power (e.g., the
current president of the Supreme Court, Carmen Lúcia).
4. We must put an end to the
cynical power games and institutional coup d'états of the ruling class! We must
take advantage of the current crisis of their corrupt government! We can and
must strengthen the power of the working class and the popular masses!
5. How can we achieve this?
First, we must stop the conspiracy of the ruling class with their obscure
parliamentary maneuvers. We must bring down the corrupt Temer government
ourselves! For a general strike and a popular uprising!
6. We must call upon the CUT,
MST, MTST, Frente Brasil Popular, Frente Povo Sem Medo, PT and all popular mass
organizations to form a united front for struggle. We call these
organizations to organize a general strike! We must force the vacillating and
conservative bureaucrats at the heads of these organizations to organize the
resistance.
7. But we must not trust them!
These bureaucratic leaders have proven in the past that they are willing to
subordinate the struggle for our interests in exchange for the participation in
the bourgeois power institutions. We must put demands on these leaders, but we
must carefully watch and control them.
8. We must build popular action
committees. These committees should be elected in popular assemblies in
which all workers in workplaces and all people in neighborhoods participate.
They should discuss the most important issues of the struggle and elect their
delegates. These delegates should then convene a national congress
that will discuss how to advance our struggle. These action committees should
also control the leaderships of the mass organizations and lead the struggle
against the Temer government themselves if the bureaucrats hesitate and betray
it. Furthermore, such action committees should also create popular
self-defense units to defend the people against the unavoidable attacks
of the police and the army.
9. Many people are calling for
a direct election for a new president. While we understand the motivation for
such a demand, we think that it is misplaced. The elections are controlled by
the ruling class. They will do everything in their power to get rid of Lula –
currently the most popular candidate for president – by putting him on trial.
And even if Lula should be elected, they would do everything to undermine his
government as they did with Dilma Rousseff.
10. In light of the fact that
many people are currently following the lead of the CUT, MST, MTST, FBP, FPSM
or PT, we call upon these popular organizations to take power into their own
hands in the wake of the general strike and popular uprising. For a
government of the CUT/INTERSINDICAL/CTB/MST/MTST/FBP/FPSM/CMP/PCO/PT and all
popular mass movements! This could be a first step towards the creation
of a workers’ and popular government!
11. Naturally, we call upon the
workers and poor not to put any blind trust in the leaders of these organizations.
They must be watched and controlled. Such a government should be put under the
control of a national congress of action committees. In the end, it is such
action committees, expanded to authentic workers’ and popular councils, which
should form their own government – a workers’ and popular government!
12. In order to advance such a
strategy and to put it into practice, we need to create an authentic revolutionary
party. We call upon all activists to share such a perspective of struggle
and to join the CCR in our efforts to build such a party as part of a new
revolutionary workers' international!
CUT- Central Única de
Trabalhadores
INTERSINDICAL-
CTB- Central dos
Trabalhadores do Brasil
MST- Movimento de Trabalhadores
Sem terra
MTST- Movimento dos
Trabalhadores Sem teto
FBP – Frente Brasil Popular
CMP-Central dos Movimentos
Populares (CMP)
FPSM – Frente povo Sem Medo
PT- Partido dos
Trabalhadores
PCO- Partido de Causa
Operária
