WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA BRASIL BRAZIL - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, CAB: NO AMNESTY! NO SHIELDING! ORGANIZE FROM THE GROUND IN OUR TERRITORIES WITH DIRECT DEMOCRACY! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On September 16, the Chamber of Deputies approved the Shielding

Amendment (PEC), which provides protection for members of parliament who
commit crimes. It establishes that criminal proceedings against
representatives and senators must be initiated by parliament in a secret
ballot. Furthermore, the proposal included a kind of "privileged forum"
for party presidents, who would benefit from the same rules. This rule
was in effect in Brazil between 1998 and 2001, with disastrous results
for the country. Parliament blocked more than 250 investigations,
allowing only one investigation during that period. The blocked
investigations even included a case involving a representative linked to
an extermination group, and, of course, there were also cases of
corruption. It's no surprise that this rule is returning at a time when
there are numerous investigations related to the misappropriation of
parliamentary amendments.

Are these representatives proposing to vote for income tax exemption or
the end of the 6x1 tax bracket? Clearly not; the people are never on the
agenda of the political elite. This constitutional amendment is yet
another demonstration of the farce that maintains the supposedly
democratic rule of law. Whose right, for whom? Those who legislate do so
to defend their interests and the agendas of the ruling classes. Despite
being part of what is called the Legislative Branch, they are
legislating to interfere in the so-called Judiciary Branch in order to
benefit themselves - which is nothing new. The supposed autonomy of each
of the "Three Branches" is a grand theater, since reality shows us the
existence of only One power: the power of the elites. Within capitalism
and bourgeois democracy, there will never be a Congress friendly to the
people, and the State will never be democratic or uphold the rule of law
for us-Black men and women, LGBT people, residents of the outskirts,
workers, quilombolas, and Indigenous people. The State will never be a
friend of the people because we are enemies by nature. Class enemies.

While 30% of people imprisoned in Brazil are still awaiting trial,
according to data from the National Secretariat of Penal Policies, an
agency of the Ministry of Justice, deputies and senators want to
legalize their nefarious crimes. Their million-dollar salaries and
abusive labor privileges are not enough; now they want to pass a law
that corroborates what has existed in Brazil since the land was named:
those with money and power have the right to impunity.

Data from the National Secretariat of Penal Policies shows that, of all
people imprisoned in Brazil, 96% are men. Of these, 44% have not had
their right to formal education respected or guaranteed by the State.
The same State that wants to see him arrested or dead: among the victims
of police brutality in 2023, 87% were Black people, the overwhelming
majority young men; 63% of incarcerated people are Black or brown, while
they make up 55.5% of the population. It is clear that criminal
legislation and the police force have been and are used, since the first
penal codes, to criminalize and exterminate the Black population. While
representatives shield themselves in their mansions and expensive suits,
the State sends its armored vehicles to the outskirts, taking lives and
continuing the funeral march of this war against the poor-impoverished
by this same State and its ineffective, negligent, insufficient, and
even murderous public policies.

It is clear that bourgeois democracy does not offer us the answers we
need to guarantee life and dignity for all Brazilians. No Congress or
Chamber of Deputies has had, has, or will have the capacity (or
interest) to truly serve the people and their needs. Therefore, the
dispute over these spaces is not in our plans as especifista anarchists.
It is better to take to the streets and demonstrate the revolt that
springs from the people who sustain the State and its elites. A people
who are exhausted from carrying them on their backs while suffering the
consequences of their decisions that make our lives increasingly difficult.

It is better to fight for true freedom and true democracy: that which
originates from the people who, organized, make decisions based on
principles such as solidarity, mutual aid, and popular justice. It is
better to rebel against these would-be masters who have never left the
Big House. Let us burn down the Big House, strengthen our quilombos, our
peripheries, our indigenous communities. Let the favela rise up, let the
workers rebel-and let this uprising, this rebellion, be organized to
build People's Power, with self-management of the spaces of struggle,
with class autonomy, and without false illusions about the Three Powers,
the State, and its elites. Let us make the asphalt melt and then plant
the new world that inhabits our hearts.
https://cabanarquista.com.br/sem-anistia-sem-blindagem-organizar-pela-base-em-nossos-territorios-com-democracia-direta/
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