The voice of the oppressed in acts of June until the present ---- June and July were
months of large demonstrations where workers, students, unemployed and various sectors of
the oppressed class took to the streets in cities across the country to fight the abuses
of capitalist corporations and government. The force coming from the base of the oppressed
class has achieved worldwide repercussions, and how could it be different reactionary
adversaries encountered on your way: Rede Globo, the other media capitalists and rightist
sectors tried to empty the contents of claims of the social agenda of events, either with
generalizations such as "corruption", or appeals bloodproud like "the giant woke up."
Nevertheless, the strong popular pressure down transport fares in many cities,
representing an indisputable victory of the people against the oppressing classes.
During August and September we saw emerge new mobilizations and resistances in the slums.
Sites that were organized and also took to the streets to denounce violence suffering for
decades by the state, lackey of capital, and do not use rubber bullets. These initiatives
have generated significant accumulations as: Favela Movement Not Cala People's Forum and
Mutual Support (formerly Favela Never Slept ). This leaves us a lesson the need to fortify
the social movements from the base.
Revolts and popular indignation in the face of insecurity train system should also be
considered. With the permission of Sergio Cabral and Transportation Secretary Julio Lopes,
the population is treated by the dealership Odebretch indecent, based whip. The population
is fed up with the violence imposed by everyday lousy service offered. Is clearly
incompatible with the quality in the provision of public services when they are delivered
to the control of entrepreneurs and their mafias, aimed at profit and worker exploitation.
October came and with it broke new manifestations. Two months on strike, server systems
and municipal state education fight for decent wage increases and floors and a plan for
jobs, careers and salaries that values ??everyone. Fight for a policy of quality education
against the measures imposed by the Department of Education and the government, which
penalizes servers and retirees. And against the advance of a meritocratic system of
capitalist logic, blaming and playing the blame for structural problems, and the chaos
experienced in public education, in the lap of workers. The mediocre PMDBista Government
responds with threats and violence with blows from batons, rubber bullets and tear gas !
Thus, during a situation of moments of descents and ascents of demonstrations in Rio de
Janeiro, the overall balance is positive. Especially when they were guided by social
demands mirrored the reality of the oppressed. Note that a new generation formed in the
heat of political struggles and demands of street is emerging and reacts strongly against
bureaucratic practices that demobilize the working class. But there is still much to do
and build on the foundations of several popular sectors and categories of workers, which
is necessary to fight organized and daily.
Violence is the true Law of the State
As already mentioned, bourgeois democracy was not intimidated and made use of apparatuses
and repressive mechanisms inherited from the dictatorship. Created the nefarious Special
Investigation Commission of Acts of Vandalism in Demonstrations ( extinct in the face of
popular pressure ), criminalized the use of masks, planted evidence, arrested minors,
chased and arrested activists and forged " gangs ". In the slums State sated his desire
for the blood of workers and oppressed : 13 residents killed in Complexo da Mar?, and
Rocinha, the disappearance of Amarildo (if they won repercussions also on the streets ).
Accordingly, the forms of resistance and self-defense of the people against the
oppressions are legitimate and should not be criminalized. Are not comparable with the
violence committed by the state, organized military, political and legal, and we have full
support of the bourgeois media. When the fight is massifies, as was the case of the strike
of education professionals, workers need to defend this orchestrated police repression.
We recognize the importance of the initiatives of self-defense of the Black Bloc, which
meets the needs of resistance in demonstrations and bearing a symbolic demand against what
is capitalism and bourgeois democracy. We are attentive to the attempt of the bourgeois
media to polarize between protesters " vandals " and " orderly " and reject generalized
and conservative opinions that disqualify the role and necessity of self-defense in the
demonstrations. We made a generous analysis of events, including those who take to the
streets, which are organized in databases, which are militant movements or political
organizations that do not yield to governismo and has faced the power of the bosses on the
streets. Thus, we argue that the organization of forms of self-defense must have the
people and the sectors of the working class and oppressed as protagonists.
We understand that state violence is not the exception but the rule, and his main
instrument is the Police, be it Civil, Military or Municipal Guard. In this sense, we can
not see the police only by economic sphere, such as "worker " wage, without realizing that
there is an inseparable ideological sphere in the role played by the police in the system
of capitalist domination : the defense of private property, control and murder of poor
black and repression of all popular organization that threatens the existing order. Facing
just causes, there was no retreat lackeys of State in the demonstrations. Thus we believe
that defending the police as an employee is to nourish illusions or be opportunistic.
Our position on the situation and proposals to advance
We and other organizations of the CAB, the face of this situation in the demonstrations in
June so far, we seek to participate and adjust our strategies to different contexts that
arise and change quickly, which is not always easy. Never compromise on our principles and
follow with our militant style and design of practical politics as an active minority.
Erring and learning from mistakes, hitting and generating accumulations.
Different practices forefront, our minority perspective is grounded in a " rear " rooted,
ie, we propose to always be with the oppressed. Our program indicates our dedication to
respect the autonomy of grassroots in relation to the construction of their agendas and
decision making. We act as a leaven in the struggles, proposing to organize what is not
organized, and helping to strengthen and empower the popular sectors already organized,
and self-management, federalism and direct action as methods. Do not delegate the power of
the people, built on the everyday struggle and along bodies of the base, which is the germ
of the future society we want to cultivate.
Before an action more modest, collectively constructed than outlandish proposals made ??
with outrage and disrespect to the role of foundations in organization and decision
making. We are aware that we will not operate alone a radical transformation of society,
so we propose solidarity in the struggle with other revolutionary forces and against all
forms of repression. For us, freedom does not mean isolation. This solidarity and alliance
are given to us primarily by social movements that helped build. Likewise repudiate the
actions bureaucratise struggles, shifting political action of implementing bodies to hand
technical lawyers, Economists, bureaucrats or politicians. This will undermine the role of
workers.
We understand that this is our role in the demonstrations and social movements that rely
on our membership, as the Movement -Based Organization (formerly BAT - Through Base ! ),
The Movement Free Pass - RJ, Cooperative Roca, the Association of Producers autonomous
Field and the City ( APAC ), the Movement of Small Farmers ( MPA ), the Pastoral Land
Commission ( CPT ) and the Movement of Landless Rural Workers ( MST ) in Rio strengthened
initiatives that help build the organization and popular power. We understand anarchism
and political organization as tools in the service of the struggle for social
transformation, jointly with the popular organizations and class of workers. So in modest
steps, but acting with quality and ethics, we walk shoulder to shoulder with the workers
of the city and countryside. Prioritize raising the flags of social movements and
grassroots organizations when participants spaces of struggle, such as : Forum Fights, Not
If Cala Favela, People Forum Mutual Support and supporting the struggle of education
professionals. We work aligned with our fellow members of other organizations in the CAB
peasant struggles, trade union, student and against all kinds of oppression. We believe
that anarchism only makes sense when put into practice, creating roots from the popular
mobilization. We call everyone to have according to our proposals and want to take part in
this project, seeking to mobilize themselves in places of study, work and live. We invite
everyone to build a project and libertarian socialist society ! We invite everyone to
organize, with firm strategy and the struggle to build from now, people's power !
Fighting, create, People Power ! !
Live demonstrations and struggles of the people ! !
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