BrazilianTrotskyist
1st May 2010, 02:23
Comrades,
It's my first post here. =)
Have not seen any report in english, I will try to give a report about the situation in PSOL, the broad anti-capitalist party of Brazil as NPA in France.
In the last Congress, last year, a crisis started in PSOL with the desintegration of the last majority, of MES (Socialist Left Movement) and APS (Socialist Popular Action), because of the extremely undemocraticaly methods of MES in the direction of PSOL and because MES negate the importance of the international crisis and pose the issue of corruption as the main theme. This crisis deepened with Heloisa Helena, who stood for presidency and is very known, deciding to stand for Senate again.
The bloc around CSOL presented Plinio de Arruda Sampaio as an alternative in the Congress.
Plinio de Arruda, who is aligned with the left of the PSOL, was viewed as very "radical" and "propagandistic".
After the Congress, MES and Heloisa Helena started trying to make PSOL support Marina Silva, the Green Party candidate. Marina Silva was a PT senator and Minister of Environment who last year joined the Green Party. Beyond MES, APS and Enlace (the section of the USFI) were voting for conversations with Marina for a "commum programme". They argued that this was "progressive" and could open opportunities for the left.
The left-wing of PSOL, CSOL (a split from PSTU-LIT, wich is my organization), CST (UIT-QI) and the comrades of the LSR (CWI), strongly opposed this policy.
While MES was trying to support Marina Silva, Marina was on tv defending publicaly the economic policies of the government, and there were manifestos signed by hundreds of known left militants of the landless movements, and other social movements outside PSOL supporting Plinio de Arruda to stand for presidency. It opened a strong crisis inside currents like APS and Enlace, who decided that was not possible to support Marina Silva, and this helped to grew inside APS and Enlace the idea that Plinio de Arruda was the only viable candidate, so APS and Enlace decided to support Plinio.
A conference would be held in Rio de Janeiro to decide the candidate for presidency and the right wing of PSOL (the Bloc around MES and Heloisa Helena) tried everything, like frauds to have more delegates and "kidnapping" the website of the party, but the majority of the party and these basis was supporting Plinio and the bloc around MES decided to not participate in the conference.
Plinio de Arruda Sampaio will now stand for presidency in the next october elections presenting a clear anti-capitalist and socialist programme to fight against the capitalist crisis and offer an alternative for the working class. :thumbup1: His proposal is to stand an openly socialist campaign, what Heloisa Helena did not.
This is a victory for the left and may positively influence the ways of PSOL and the recomposition of the left in the next period.
Wish that everyone enjoyed the report! :)
It's my first post here. =)
Have not seen any report in english, I will try to give a report about the situation in PSOL, the broad anti-capitalist party of Brazil as NPA in France.
In the last Congress, last year, a crisis started in PSOL with the desintegration of the last majority, of MES (Socialist Left Movement) and APS (Socialist Popular Action), because of the extremely undemocraticaly methods of MES in the direction of PSOL and because MES negate the importance of the international crisis and pose the issue of corruption as the main theme. This crisis deepened with Heloisa Helena, who stood for presidency and is very known, deciding to stand for Senate again.
The bloc around CSOL presented Plinio de Arruda Sampaio as an alternative in the Congress.
Plinio de Arruda, who is aligned with the left of the PSOL, was viewed as very "radical" and "propagandistic".
After the Congress, MES and Heloisa Helena started trying to make PSOL support Marina Silva, the Green Party candidate. Marina Silva was a PT senator and Minister of Environment who last year joined the Green Party. Beyond MES, APS and Enlace (the section of the USFI) were voting for conversations with Marina for a "commum programme". They argued that this was "progressive" and could open opportunities for the left.
The left-wing of PSOL, CSOL (a split from PSTU-LIT, wich is my organization), CST (UIT-QI) and the comrades of the LSR (CWI), strongly opposed this policy.
While MES was trying to support Marina Silva, Marina was on tv defending publicaly the economic policies of the government, and there were manifestos signed by hundreds of known left militants of the landless movements, and other social movements outside PSOL supporting Plinio de Arruda to stand for presidency. It opened a strong crisis inside currents like APS and Enlace, who decided that was not possible to support Marina Silva, and this helped to grew inside APS and Enlace the idea that Plinio de Arruda was the only viable candidate, so APS and Enlace decided to support Plinio.
A conference would be held in Rio de Janeiro to decide the candidate for presidency and the right wing of PSOL (the Bloc around MES and Heloisa Helena) tried everything, like frauds to have more delegates and "kidnapping" the website of the party, but the majority of the party and these basis was supporting Plinio and the bloc around MES decided to not participate in the conference.
Plinio de Arruda Sampaio will now stand for presidency in the next october elections presenting a clear anti-capitalist and socialist programme to fight against the capitalist crisis and offer an alternative for the working class. :thumbup1: His proposal is to stand an openly socialist campaign, what Heloisa Helena did not.
This is a victory for the left and may positively influence the ways of PSOL and the recomposition of the left in the next period.
Wish that everyone enjoyed the report! :)