Brazil’s Popular Front Rejects Coup
After the Senate’s voting on the impeachment against Dilma Rousseff, which put the last nail in the coffin of Brazilian democracy with 61 votes in favor of the impeachment and 20 against, the Popular Brazil Front, which gathers over 60 unions and popular movements, launched a communiqué rejecting the coup and supporting the overthrown President Dilma Rousseff.
“Today, the resistance is merely beginning. On the streets and inside institutions. In education centers, workplaces and households. Sooner than the usurpers think, the Brazilian people will be able to reject their plans and retake the road of great changes”, the movements say in their statement.
Dear Comrade President Dilma Rousseff,
First and foremost, as the word on the street says, “Fora Temer!”.
Most Brazilian Senators have knelt before fraud and lies, green lighting a Parliamentary coup against the Constitution, our sovereignty and the working class.
Reactionary forces imposed an usurper government, which has an apparent misogynous and racist bias, by interrupting your legitimate mandate.
They completely disregarded the electoral result, condemned an innocent woman and caused the worst political setback since the 1964 military coup.
This violation of the democratic order is caused by the anti-patriotic and anti-popular goals of the economic elites, who are set on privatizing the Pre-Salt oil fields, state companies and public banks, and additionally sell our lands to foreign buyers, compromising the national production of food and control over water.
Coupists want, among other things, to cut investments in health, education and housing, to eliminate labor rights, end the link between retirement pensions and basic salary, bury the Agrarian Reform and eliminate social programs.
The usurpers’ agenda violates the guarantees of the 1988 Constitution and it attacks the conquests that the people made during Lula’s and Dilma’s mandate, with a clear goal of favoring the interests of financial, industrial agrarian and media oligarchies, to enable them to increase their profit at the expense of workers and middle-classes.
Over the last few months, we have resisted the coup throughout the country. Millions of Brazilians took part in the demonstrations and protests, in a collective effort to defend democracy, peoples’ rights, sovereignty and the electoral results.
Dilma’s voice, in her August 29th speech, when she faced her judges, represents us. There, she expressed, with clarity and audacity, the truth about the coup, its class alliance and the threat it poses for the future of the nation, because usurpers don’t conceal their submissiveness to imperialist powers and seek to destroy the independent foreign policy that had been built since 2013.
Today, the resistance is merely beginning. On the streets and inside institutions. In education centres, workplaces and households. Sooner than the usurpers thing, the Brazilian people will be able to reject their plans and retake the road of great changes.
Our struggle against the coup and their program to strip us from our conquests will be ruthless.
We’ll seek after the unity and mobilization of massive popular forces, struggling tirelessly, until we defeat the anti-democratic coalition that broke the Rule of Law.
We’re sure that our comrade will continue to inspire and lead the resistance against the coup.
On the same side of the trenches and history, we’ll fight until the victory of democratic, fair and sovereign Brazil.
Popular Brazil Front
Source: Brasil De Fato / August 31, 2016