WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, OSL: All congresses are enemies of the people! Take to the streets against the Temporal Framework and the amnesty for the military and Bolsonaro! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 What we saw this week only reveals a truth that the oppressed classes

have known for a long time: there is no "progressive" Congress, there is
no "people's" parliament, and there is no government capable of
containing the right wing as long as it continues to make agreements
with its tormentors within its rules. Regardless of who occupies the
Planalto Palace or the composition of the three branches of
government-especially the National Congress-the parliament of the
dominant classes operates systematically against workers, against
indigenous peoples, against democratic freedoms, and against any
emancipatory project that threatens its interests.

The lightning-fast approval of the Sentencing Bill, in the early hours
of the 10th, is just another chapter in this scenario. It is a project
tailor-made to drastically reduce the sentences of Jair Bolsonaro, the
coup-plotting generals, and even criminal organizations, paving the way
for a disguised amnesty already negotiated behind the scenes. The vote,
which ended 291 to 148, shattered the historical sense of holding the
coup's orchestrators accountable and reaffirmed a clear message:
institutionalism protects the maintenance of domination and its
accomplices, regardless of the mask they wear.

Alongside this, the same night was marked by a veritable institutional
circus, a meticulously staged spectacle to produce narratives, fabricate
characters, and feed the logic of "engagement" that has become a method
of power. Violence by the Legislative Police, attacks on
parliamentarians, censorship and expulsion of journalists, and even the
cutting off of the TV Câmara broadcast were part of the scene. On both
sides, what was seen was a priority given to the construction of
parliamentary figures and performative battles for media and algorithmic
disputes, while real attacks on the people's rights advanced almost
without organized collective resistance.

In the Senate, the attack continued with the approval of the Temporal
Framework Amendment (PEC do Marco Temporal), an attempt to deepen the
institutionalization of the ethnocide of indigenous peoples, hand over
territories to agribusiness, legitimize centuries of violent expulsions,
and subject all indigenous policy to the direct control of large
landowners. This is an explicit pact between the State, rural
landowners, mining companies, and land grabbers.

None of this is an accident. It is not a "deviation," it is not
"betrayal," it is not an "unexpected setback." It is the normal
functioning of a Congress structured to serve capital-and not the people!

Therefore, we state clearly: change cannot be made from within Congress.
It is not possible to democratize a machine designed to crush workers,
indigenous peoples, and social movements. It is not possible to confront
the right wing through conciliation with it.

While the Lula/Alckmin government insists on a policy of agreements with
the right wing, known as the "Centrão" (Center-Right bloc), and bets
everything on "governability," the right wing-in all its expressions-is
advancing. The amnesty for the coup plotters, the Temporal Framework for
Economic Policy, the fiscal adjustments, the concessions and high
financing for agribusiness, and the dismantling of environmental
protections are direct results of this logic. It will not be at the
ballot box in 2026 that we will prevent new coups: it will be through
direct struggle.

These facts demonstrate that the electoral path and institutional
dispute are a dead end. The "governability" agreed upon by the
government with the Centrão did not contain the far-right-on the
contrary, it strengthened its authoritarian project. Class conciliation
remains the root of this regression. Within parliament, the left is left
with only two equally sterile paths: to move ever closer to the right to
try to survive politically, or to position itself as a "combative
voice," in isolation, forced to produce media events to be minimally
heard. Parliamentary logic dictates that even mandates most aligned with
movements become self-serving, concentrating actions around the
parliamentarians themselves and institutional struggle, relegating
popular mobilization to the background. This often leads movements to
support these parliamentarians instead of the other way around; the
focus has shifted entirely to maintaining legislative positions at the
expense of struggle and organization.

The only possible response is popular organization, direct struggle, and
the power of the streets. We cannot trust any institution of this
capitalist and genocidal state. Our strength lies in the independence of
the movements, in direct action, and in solidarity among workers,
indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, and all oppressed sectors.
It is time to organize forces to rebuild independent social power, not
to build candidacies and prioritize electoral contests.

Therefore, in this context, we emphasize two axes as priorities:

- For the immediate end of the Temporal Framework! Immediate demarcation
of all indigenous lands!

- Against amnesty for Bolsonaro and the coup plotters! For the end of
the Sentencing Bill and for real punishment for all those involved in
the crimes of the Bolsonaro government!

This Congress does not represent us. The State will never defend us.
History shows that all popular achievements were won through collective
mobilization-never granted by offices.

We reaffirm: all Congresses have been, are, and will be enemies of the
people!

Libertarian Socialist Organization
December 2025

https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/12/12/todos-os-congressos-sao-inimigos-do-povo/
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