The boycott is an ideological and organizational weapon. The tactic of boycott of
bourgeois elections is linked to concrete political and ideological struggle is not just
advertising or complaint, or a choice that is made when the party can not win elections.
That year, 2014, the boycott of bourgeois elections should express public discontent.
However, it should be more. Should be part of the preparation of a struggle of the
exploited and oppressed against the system. ---- Graffiti on the streets of Rio de Janeiro
calls to boycott the bourgeois municipal elections of 2012. ---- The year 2014 is special.
Year of mega-events, the World Cup, deepening authoritarianism. Year in which the dispute
within the bourgeois political system between "right and left" means less and less.
Therefore, a boycott campaign to help develop the experience and independent class
organization is key.
The UNIPA understands that the organization and direct struggle of workers and workers at
national and international levels, is the only alternative to the dictatorship of the
bourgeois class which pretends representative democracy under capitalism. So just as we
should boycott the bourgeois elections, we must deepen the struggle and the national
organization and internationally. The historic weapon of the workers is the GENERAL STRIKE
. We therefore propose the work of propaganda and agitation of the general strike as a
method of struggle combined with the boycott of bourgeois elections.
Not voting, election boycott, is important. But it is just the negation of the system, the
refusal. The exploited and the oppressed must also have a positive action, fight for
economic and political rights. The general strike is the watchword of construction. We do
not only disclosure of the "Do not Vote!", But the "Fight" shall mean the adherence to a
method (general strike) and a list of demands. This agenda must be brought to the
peripheral neighborhoods, factories, fields to create a large protest movement.
Today the main task is to call the campaign of general strike against the World Cup and
mega events. A protest strike to express the demands of the workers. So the campaign
COMMITTEES "DO NOT VOTE, FIGHT!" Should be either convene the election boycott as the
general strike.
The electoral abstention, that increases every bourgeois election is purposely classified
by the reformists and the right as 'alienated' and unimportant. How not want to give up
their strategies to reconcile classes, prefer to close their eyes to the reality that
workers and employees no longer trust in the electoral farce.
But, not only to make them see the truth, but also to succeed in transforming a diffuse
anger in concrete struggle, we need to organize a boycott from the tactical unit and
strategic unity, suggesting an alternative to the statist model of organization and of
bourgeois electoral representation.
Therefore we urge anarchists and revolutionaries of Brazil to build local committees NOT
VOTE, DO campaign! linked to national political propaganda and agitation, democratically
decided and implemented under the principle of collective responsibility. This campaign
aims to make positive and negative tasks listed above.
propose the following dynamics to enable the NO VOTE campaign, FIGHT! Throughout Brazil in
2014:
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All companheirxs, collective, midiativistas, collectives that want to build this campaign
in their neighborhoods, regions, municipalities can write for UNIPA that is proposing to
serve as mediator in creating and coordinating committees. Contact via email: unipa@hush.com
The watchword not Vote, Fight! is the only slogan of revolutionary struggle in the current
historical moment before the elections. And she turns to a strategy of struggle and mass
organization and only thus differs from reformism and opportunism.
VOTE NO, FIGHT!
Fighting is changing, the rest just eludes!
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