WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL BRASIL - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, OSL: Black Consciousness is a living struggle against racism, capital, and the State. Palmares Lives! The Black People Resist! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 November 20th is a day of affirmation of Black resistance and the

combative memory that has accompanied the Brazilian people since the
times of the European invasion. It is not an empty commemorative date,
as the mainstream media seeks to disseminate, but a political landmark
that reaffirms that racism continues to structure the capitalist-statist
order and class domination in Brazil. This reality continues to express
itself violently and explicitly in the country.

Racial Violence and Social Crisis

The recent massacres in the peripheries of Baixada Santista, Rio de
Janeiro, Salvador, and other cities in the country have once again shown
how the State uses police violence to control and terrorize territories
with a Black majority. In addition to this, mass incarceration continues
to expand, with overcrowded prisons and pretrial detentions
overwhelmingly affecting the Black population-75% of those imprisoned
without trial are Black. At the same time, the housing crisis worsened,
with violent evictions in large cities such as São Paulo, Recife, and
Belo Horizonte, primarily removing Black families from their homes and
reinforcing the logic of urban expulsion that favors large landowners
and the interests of the real estate market.

All of this is associated with the increased cost of living, food
inflation, and precarious work, which disproportionately affects the
Black population, which comprises the most exploited base of the working
class. In this context, Black women remain the most precarious and
poorly paid group, accumulating long and unstable working hours in
domestic service, for example, and in occupations with low social and
labor protection. According to Dieese, about half of Black women earn up
to one minimum wage, and their average income is 53% lower than that of
white men. These numbers starkly reveal the racial and gender apartheid
in the country.

International Scenario: Racialized Peoples as Targets

This internal scenario connects with the international context, marked
by the advancement of the climate crisis, which especially affects
racialized territories in the Global South; by the militarization of
borders in Europe and the United States, where African, Caribbean, and
Latin American migrants become targets of violence and incarceration;
and by wars that fall more heavily on historically colonized
populations. Brazil is part of this process, where Black and Indigenous
peoples are the most vulnerable, both in relation to environmental
destruction and economic exploitation, as well as the very dynamics of
legalized extermination.

Racism as a Pillar of Brazilian Capitalism

The recent events mentioned make it even clearer that racism is not a
moral deviation or a historical residue, but a structuring form of
domination deeply embedded in the very constitution of
capitalism-statism. Like colonialism/imperialism and patriarchy, racism
is a fundamental part of the formation of social classes and the
maintenance of exploitation: it guides state violence, defines who
occupies the most precarious jobs, legitimizes super-exploitation,
naturalizes inequalities, and sustains the social division of labor that
reserves the most powerful positions for white men. The poverty of the
Black population is not an accident-it is a functional pillar for the
reproduction of dependent and subordinate Brazilian capitalism.
Therefore, the anti-racist struggle can only be effective when
understood as an inseparable part of the class struggle and the
confrontation with capitalism and the State that organizes it. Combating
racism is confronting the order that depends on it. The memory of Zumbi,
Dandara, Tereza de Benguela, and the quilombos precisely expresses this
perspective: Palmares did not seek integration with colonial power, but
built an insurgent project of collective autonomy, solidarity, and
popular self-organization capable of breaking with all forms of
articulated domination.

Palmares points the way: rebellion, autonomy, and self-management.

In Brazil in 2025, this spirit manifests itself in mobilizations against
massacres, in housing occupations spreading throughout the capitals, as
seen in the Favela do Moinho in São Paulo, in the strikes and resistance
of outsourced and precarious workers, in the struggle of Black youth
against state brutality, in the resistance of the peripheries to the
advance of real estate capital, and in the defense of quilombola and
indigenous territories against environmental destruction. These
struggles form a single historical thread: the active refusal to accept
social and economic inequality as destiny.

On this November 20th, we reaffirm the enormous importance of the Black
struggle in the reorganization of oppressed classes, the need to
strengthen all movements confronting police violence and ongoing
genocide, and the urgency of popular self-organization in urban and
rural territories, workplaces, schools, and universities. We reject the
attempt to transform the date into a cultural spectacle or a piece of
institutional marketing, emptying the anti-racist struggle of its
political and revolutionary content. We defend the construction of a
radical project of social transformation that understands that the
ethnic-racial struggle is inseparable from the class struggle and that
only with this understanding can we move towards a common horizon of
emancipation and rupture with capitalism.

November 20th does not belong to the State, to corporations, or to
conciliatory discourses. It is a day that belongs to the Black people
and to the popular struggles that continue to confront the structure of
oppression denounced by Zumbi, Dandara, and the Quilombo of Palmares.
May this November 20th, 2025, contribute to keeping us organized,
united, and determined to confront racism and the statist capitalism
that sustains it. Zumbi lives, the Black people fight, and the
construction of self-managed popular power remains the only answer
capable of honoring this memory and advancing towards a future of
freedom and social equality.

PALMARES LIVES!

LONG LIVE THE BLACK PEOPLE IN STRUGGLE!

AGAINST RACISM. AGAINST CAPITAL. FOR SELF-MANAGED POPULAR POWER AND
SOCIAL REVOLUTION!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

November 20th, 2025

https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/11/20/consciencia-negra-e-luta-viva/
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