Brazil, FARJ Novo Libera #159 - BUILD POPULAR POWER! (pt)

The voice of the oppressed in acts of June until the present ---- June and July were 
months of large demonstrations where workers, students, unemployed and various sectors of 
the oppressed class took to the streets in cities across the country to fight the abuses 
of capitalist corporations and government. The force coming from the base of the oppressed 
class has achieved worldwide repercussions, and how could it be different reactionary 
adversaries encountered on your way: Rede Globo, the other media capitalists and rightist 
sectors tried to empty the contents of claims of the social agenda of events, either with 
generalizations such as "corruption", or appeals bloodproud like "the giant woke up." 
Nevertheless, the strong popular pressure down transport fares in many cities, 
representing an indisputable victory of the people against the oppressing classes.

During August and September we saw emerge new mobilizations and resistances in the slums. 
Sites that were organized and also took to the streets to denounce violence suffering for 
decades by the state, lackey of capital, and do not use rubber bullets. These initiatives 
have generated significant accumulations as: Favela Movement Not Cala People's Forum and 
Mutual Support (formerly Favela Never Slept ). This leaves us a lesson the need to fortify 
the social movements from the base.

Revolts and popular indignation in the face of insecurity train system should also be 
considered. With the permission of Sergio Cabral and Transportation Secretary Julio Lopes, 
the population is treated by the dealership Odebretch indecent, based whip. The population 
is fed up with the violence imposed by everyday lousy service offered. Is clearly 
incompatible with the quality in the provision of public services when they are delivered 
to the control of entrepreneurs and their mafias, aimed at profit and worker exploitation.

October came and with it broke new manifestations. Two months on strike, server systems 
and municipal state education fight for decent wage increases and floors and a plan for 
jobs, careers and salaries that values ??everyone. Fight for a policy of quality education 
against the measures imposed by the Department of Education and the government, which 
penalizes servers and retirees. And against the advance of a meritocratic system of 
capitalist logic, blaming and playing the blame for structural problems, and the chaos 
experienced in public education, in the lap of workers. The mediocre PMDBista Government 
responds with threats and violence with blows from batons, rubber bullets and tear gas !

Thus, during a situation of moments of descents and ascents of demonstrations in Rio de 
Janeiro, the overall balance is positive. Especially when they were guided by social 
demands mirrored the reality of the oppressed. Note that a new generation formed in the 
heat of political struggles and demands of street is emerging and reacts strongly against 
bureaucratic practices that demobilize the working class. But there is still much to do 
and build on the foundations of several popular sectors and categories of workers, which 
is necessary to fight organized and daily.

Violence is the true Law of the State

As already mentioned, bourgeois democracy was not intimidated and made use of apparatuses 
and repressive mechanisms inherited from the dictatorship. Created the nefarious Special 
Investigation Commission of Acts of Vandalism in Demonstrations ( extinct in the face of 
popular pressure ), criminalized the use of masks, planted evidence, arrested minors, 
chased and arrested activists and forged " gangs ". In the slums State sated his desire 
for the blood of workers and oppressed : 13 residents killed in Complexo da Mar?, and 
Rocinha, the disappearance of Amarildo (if they won repercussions also on the streets ).

Accordingly, the forms of resistance and self-defense of the people against the 
oppressions are legitimate and should not be criminalized. Are not comparable with the 
violence committed by the state, organized military, political and legal, and we have full 
support of the bourgeois media. When the fight is massifies, as was the case of the strike 
of education professionals, workers need to defend this orchestrated police repression.

We recognize the importance of the initiatives of self-defense of the Black Bloc, which 
meets the needs of resistance in demonstrations and bearing a symbolic demand against what 
is capitalism and bourgeois democracy. We are attentive to the attempt of the bourgeois 
media to polarize between protesters " vandals " and " orderly " and reject generalized 
and conservative opinions that disqualify the role and necessity of self-defense in the 
demonstrations. We made a generous analysis of events, including those who take to the 
streets, which are organized in databases, which are militant movements or political 
organizations that do not yield to governismo and has faced the power of the bosses on the 
streets. Thus, we argue that the organization of forms of self-defense must have the 
people and the sectors of the working class and oppressed as protagonists.

We understand that state violence is not the exception but the rule, and his main 
instrument is the Police, be it Civil, Military or Municipal Guard. In this sense, we can 
not see the police only by economic sphere, such as "worker " wage, without realizing that 
there is an inseparable ideological sphere in the role played by the police in the system 
of capitalist domination : the defense of private property, control and murder of poor 
black and repression of all popular organization that threatens the existing order. Facing 
just causes, there was no retreat lackeys of State in the demonstrations. Thus we believe 
that defending the police as an employee is to nourish illusions or be opportunistic.

Our position on the situation and proposals to advance

We and other organizations of the CAB, the face of this situation in the demonstrations in 
June so far, we seek to participate and adjust our strategies to different contexts that 
arise and change quickly, which is not always easy. Never compromise on our principles and 
follow with our militant style and design of practical politics as an active minority. 
Erring and learning from mistakes, hitting and generating accumulations.

Different practices forefront, our minority perspective is grounded in a " rear " rooted, 
ie, we propose to always be with the oppressed. Our program indicates our dedication to 
respect the autonomy of grassroots in relation to the construction of their agendas and 
decision making. We act as a leaven in the struggles, proposing to organize what is not 
organized, and helping to strengthen and empower the popular sectors already organized, 
and self-management, federalism and direct action as methods. Do not delegate the power of 
the people, built on the everyday struggle and along bodies of the base, which is the germ 
of the future society we want to cultivate.

Before an action more modest, collectively constructed than outlandish proposals made ?? 
with outrage and disrespect to the role of foundations in organization and decision 
making. We are aware that we will not operate alone a radical transformation of society, 
so we propose solidarity in the struggle with other revolutionary forces and against all 
forms of repression. For us, freedom does not mean isolation. This solidarity and alliance 
are given to us primarily by social movements that helped build. Likewise repudiate the 
actions bureaucratise struggles, shifting political action of implementing bodies to hand 
technical lawyers, Economists, bureaucrats or politicians. This will undermine the role of 
workers.

We understand that this is our role in the demonstrations and social movements that rely 
on our membership, as the Movement -Based Organization (formerly BAT - Through Base ! ), 
The Movement Free Pass - RJ, Cooperative Roca, the Association of Producers autonomous 
Field and the City ( APAC ), the Movement of Small Farmers ( MPA ), the Pastoral Land 
Commission ( CPT ) and the Movement of Landless Rural Workers ( MST ) in Rio strengthened 
initiatives that help build the organization and popular power. We understand anarchism 
and political organization as tools in the service of the struggle for social 
transformation, jointly with the popular organizations and class of workers. So in modest 
steps, but acting with quality and ethics, we walk shoulder to shoulder with the workers 
of the city and countryside. Prioritize raising the flags of social movements and 
grassroots organizations when participants spaces of struggle, such as : Forum Fights, Not 
If Cala Favela, People Forum Mutual Support and supporting the struggle of education 
professionals. We work aligned with our fellow members of other organizations in the CAB 
peasant struggles, trade union, student and against all kinds of oppression. We believe 
that anarchism only makes sense when put into practice, creating roots from the popular 
mobilization. We call everyone to have according to our proposals and want to take part in 
this project, seeking to mobilize themselves in places of study, work and live. We invite 
everyone to build a project and libertarian socialist society ! We invite everyone to 
organize, with firm strategy and the struggle to build from now, people's power !

Fighting, create, People Power ! !

Live demonstrations and struggles of the people ! !