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rebelworker
25th July 2008, 13:33
Here is a roughtly translated statement of solidarity from Brasil as Lula and the "Workers Party"(once a shining example of change for some on the left)orders the criminalisation of the massive landless peasants movment.
I dont know more than this sorry...

Libertarian Solidarity with the MST

The report divulged in the last days approved by the advice of the State Public prosecution service made a sentence of the ruling class: the MST must be dissolved. The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST - Movement of the Landless Agricultural Workers) was made the target of a policy of criminalisation of poverty and the social movements that is being led in the state of the Rio Grande do Sul. It is policy of the police State, where executive government, devices of justice, media groups, transnational and latifundium corporations, concur with the police force fulfilling and making the law from the commander of the military brigade.

The association of transnational capital with the latifundium made the aggressive formula of the agro-business that concentrates in the national scenario the lands that are expropriated from the agrarian reform. The bio-combustibles, genetically modified soy and cellulose are the shop window of the monoculture that pulls the workers out of the field and sends them to urban misery. Agro-business is able to be deeply articulated with politics, is a financier of electoral campaigns without partisan discrimination, is mounted in the expedients of the Lula government together with the oligarchies and the financial system, and is the privileged place to which the credits of the Bank of Development (BNDES) go. The neoliberal doctrine of the central administration of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT - Workers' Party) is surely a factor of the “economic growth”. In the state of RS, for the corporations of cellulose, this power made donations to the candidates adversaries Yeda Crusius of the PSDB and Olívio Dutra of the PT. With the resolved election campaign, it knocked down controls for the culture of exotic plants and finished eliminating in the course of this year with the environmental zoning to have pumps and to drink the guarana water.

As an organised expression of the peasants expelled from the land, the MST saw to change the profile of class struggle in the fields. The latifundium is strengthened by transnational capital, planted eucalyptus, pinus, other species for cellulose production. It took the discourse of development where it only had idle property, masked social function for extensive production that makes environmental damage and does not give anything for the people to eat or to be empowered with the great modes of communication. The resistance to these new formations of the dominant power was harder, as it could not leave of being. The tactics of working class struggle had made more of an offensive, leading to scenes where the enemies of agrarian reform play with more force and new techniques.

Elements of politics and ideology for the left also weigh in the picture where the MST acts: the reformist project of intention that polarized the social forces of change for the PT, when taken for the government of the republic if it disclosed a tremendous failure. Integrated as the leading elite in the neoliberal guidelines of the structure of the power, it all dragged the syndical movement organized in the CUT and its social field for bureaucratization and class collaboration. The MST if saw isolated as method of direct action of masses, as proposal militant pra social fight, and lost for the dominant system its referring of project politician.

The state of the Rio Grande Do Sul passes for a special conjuncture. It has a corrupt government until the first step, directed for a weak party that accomodates the groups politicians of the oligarchy dividing land into parcels state agencies as it orders the modus operanti of the bourgeois politics in liberal democratic system. One economic policy line in the World Bank pra to make fiscal adjustment with privatizations, dismounting of the public services and to pay the expansion of the transnational ones. An ultraconservative speech circulating in the society for the force of the groups of media and the emergency of the police forces in the scene social-politics as normative institution. As regional institution of the power it has the feição of a police State.

It is a state that diminishes the spaces of the public freedoms, inside of its crisis of representation and makes more ostensive the violence as resource of the politics on the behavior of the excluded poverty of the government agenda. As speech it has social reproduction for the always eminent figure of the delinquency, the riot and the breaking of the property.

The MST, as the more expressive social movement of the fights of the working class in this state, is the target of a plot of them to be institutionally and economically able to break the popular resistance to the overwhelming model that if imposes for the elites gauchos and the transnational ones. Police infiltrations, violence on encampments and mobilizations for agrarian reform, legal actions that criminalse the movement, according to report published in the press, are the concretions of an intention confess of pô it in the illegality for dissolve it. To destroy this that has been a brave organization in the defense of the interests of the working class, that has made way of social justice, peleando with the proper hands the dignity of the expelled poor persons of the field.

Our modest militant force is solidary. The MST and the fight without truces for agrarian reform are a cause of all and all that peleiam a new world without losing bladder. To reorganize the class representative unionism for the base, to give fight expression to the poor persons of the city and to empower the voice of the communities without asking for license are the tasks of the hour, of these difficult times, where best solidarity if makes fighting.

NO SOCIAL STRUGGLE WITHOUT SOLIDARITY!
AWAY WITH YEDA/FEIJÓ AND THE WORLD BANK!
STRUGGLE AND CRIATE POPULAR POWER!

GAÚCHA ANARCHIST FEDERATION - FAG
FORUM OF ORGANISED ANARCHISM - FAO

Joe Hill's Ghost
25th July 2008, 17:41
I'm all down for supporting this. I got a big ass MST flag in my house for a reason.

Nothing Human Is Alien
25th July 2008, 18:15
Lula is the president of capitalist state. What else do you expect? Anyway, this sort of thing from him is nothing new at all..

See: Brazil’s “unionist” president scabs on air traffic controllers (http://mfje.org/english/page.php?94)

rebelworker
26th July 2008, 01:44
Lula is the president of capitalist state. What else do you expect? Anyway, this sort of thing from him is nothing new at all..

See: Brazil’s “unionist” president scabs on air traffic controllers (http://mfje.org/english/page.php?94)

I expected nothing less, but most of the people who are now cheerleaders for Chavez, were to a slightly lesser extent all excited about Lula a few years ago...

Im sure one could go back and find all sorts of embarrasing threads about it.

Mather
26th July 2008, 04:00
Lula was and is a bourgeois politician.

His job, as the leader of a capitalist state, is to preserve and represent the interests of the Brazilian ruling class and those of global companies and the global financial system.

It was indeed sad to see that many people fell for his empty promises and slogans of 'change' and 'a better tomorrow', but all politicians do that and we must look beyond their empty promises and slogans and see politicians for what they really are, liars.