(en) Brazil, Anarchist Federation Gaucha FAG - FIGHT AND WIN AWAY FROM THE POLLS - ANARCHIST OPINION ON THE 2ND ROUND OF ELECTIONS

The partial results of elections to the federal government in 1st round repeat the 
polarization between the PT and the PSDB the last 20 years. Whites, null votes and 
abstentions came close to achieving 30% of voters. The National Congress had little 
renovation and conservative positions have achieved a breakthrough. Apparently the Dilma 
government will next 25th of October a tight race with the candidate Aetius Neves. ---- In 
our Public Act of September 20 reaffirm that the electoral route is blocked by the 
economic powers, by conservative mechanisms of the state and the media oligopolies to make 
changes that achieve the dominant structures of power. Simply put, those who make careers 
and enables the rule with the system, the system is governed. The maneuvering room within 
the political institutions and power relations that make it work is marginal and 
controlled so that nothing goes in the order of things established.

With this, we do not overlook what is specific and unique among the candidates and parties 
of bourgeois democracy. The accuracy is outside the panorama of the presidential elections 
a reformist project, left, in the classic sense. What we see are administrative variables, 
modes of operating the machine at the end that do not jeopardize their gears, not shyly, 
question their rules of operation.

The Tucanos governments were the heavy hand of neoliberalism in Brazil. Headed violent 
entry of the country in the ideological and economic circuits of the globalized capitalist 
market. Privatization of public goods, wage squeeze, cut social rights, mass dismantling 
of public services and unemployment were part of their shift. Despite all raised popular 
rejection, the right has succeeded in imposing its key stabilizers of order. What is 
called by the name of economic stability is, first of all, the production of a 
conservative consensus that stormed the political discourse and made the left back 
positions to the point of making your majority sector forgo the more expensive tariffs 
class and working to integrate more power as a functional piece.

?The ruling PT, in his climb to the parliament and finally the central government, is the 
expression of a history of capitulation to the system. This process does not begin when 
the Lula arrives there, but it takes settings in the course of a line that parliamentary 
politics and bureaucratic-institutional his career ladder. That is consummated in 2002, 
with the declaration of faith "letter to the Brazilian people", made at the foot of the 
flag of the capitalist order and progress.

The period of 12 years PT government has to separate the two terms of the Cardoso 
government elements. The PT governance creates a policy of alliances that attracts and 
divides oligarchy right. Was pushed to the common grave of conspiracies, lobbies, 
kickbacks, slush funds among many schemes diversions of public funds and favoritism of 
private business. Society organizes a social compact which makes getting governance 
mechanisms on both ends of the class structure. Makes earnings growth of the financial 
system and the major capitals and along with it caters to the poorest social programs that 
were underserved public policy, including the popular sectors in the market via consumer 
policy. However, leaves out the combat structures of concentration of wealth and power and 
measures that work in this direction as taxing large fortunes, reducing working hours 
without wage losses, end of outsourcing, agrarian reform and urban concentration that 
attack land and property speculation, etc.

The governismo PT leads to an ideologically disarm the independent design of organizations 
and struggles of the oppressed classes. Breaks the unity of class and plant confusion, 
ambitions and values that form an absolutely strange to militant left-wing values 
bureaucratic-technical profile. MAKE-government unionism transmission apparatus of 
government willingness and co-managers of pension funds, breaking all the organizational 
culture and struggle with prospects to build a project of rupture and transforming the 
traditional instruments of class organization in mere bureaucratic managers .

This process of progressive weakening of working class organization reached absurd levels 
with the rise of the reformist coalition supposedly Plateau, but it comes from before, 
long before. Despite the numerous expressions of militant unionism and base within the CUT 
over the 1990s, we can say that in this decade, primarily after the unfortunate outcome of 
the strike of tankers from 1994 to CUT has been consolidating a foreign union make its 
base. There are few examples where the ruling apparatus in the union movement acts 
deliberately to demobilize and demoralize all workers.

In this sense, the PT itself is responsible for creating the state of things that can 
prevent its continuity while government. The Workers Party is not just facing an onslaught 
of sectors rightmost, but fundamentally their own offspring.

Organize the rebellion from below

Our vote is NULL and ACTIVE!

As anarchists, we do not participate in the 1st round and will not participate in this 2nd 
round of elections with our vote. Our vote was and is void! An active vote invalid because 
it is active and will be our everyday regardless of militancy in different sectors of the 
oppressed class organization. While anarchists politically organized in Gaucha Anarchist 
Federation (FAG), strategic bet on social inclusion and programmatically oriented and give 
concrete steps in the construction of People's Power. An effort to promote and creative 
impulse within the social movements and base spaces of participation, initiative and 
leadership. In factories, workshops, schools, colleges, neighborhoods, field and forest.

?We have nothing to offer, today, to those who think and those bourgeois elections as an 
easy, fast and effective way of solving our problems as a people. What we offer is a space 
organization, a collective project to be constructed in the daily struggles for better 
conditions of life and a Socialist a