(en) Brazil, uniaoanarquista UNIPA Jornal Causa do Povo #70 (July 2014) - Content + In Defense of Mass Direct Action: Program for a Popular Claims (pt)

In this issue: ---- FIFA World Cup: damage to the working class and the construction of 
the general strike (p. 2) ---- Status of the fans, the criminalization of organized 
supporters and gentrification of football (p. 3) ---- In defense of direct mass action: 
for a program of popular claims (p. 4) ---- The state against the workers (p. 5) ---- What 
is anarchism? (p. 6) ---- State Election 2014: Do not Vote! Fight! (p. 7) ---- Imperialism 
and the division of Iraq (p. 8) ---- Read the full edition in Portuguese 
http://uniaoanarquista.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/cdp70.pdf ---- FIFA World Cup: damage 
to the working class and the construction of the general strike ---- The protests and 
strikes that happen today in Brazil and methods have very different demands from unions 
and traditional parties, whether they are pro-government (Treasury, and PCdoB PT) or 
paragovernistas (PSTU, Psol and Conlutas). Direct action was experienced by the broad 
masses of workers, streets and workplaces, housing and study.

But what is Direct Action? It is when people decide not to wait longer than others to 
solve their problems, be they parliamentarians, trade unionists and leaders. A recent 
example are the various sectors went on strike despite the agreements made by traitors 
unionists and demonstrated that they can gain more through collective struggle and 
confrontation right. Did not wait for the salvation of anyone but their own. Why direct 
action is more than violent actions and "smashing", she is self-determination of the 
working class.

Therefore, there is only real direct action with a range of parties and bosses. The 
parties seek at all times to appropriate popular demands to achieve state positions or to 
sit at the negotiating on behalf of workers desks. They do this because they do not really 
believe in social change by mobilizing the masses, but the elections and bureaucratic 
means. Others believe in themselves and not the people in power. That is why we try to 
channel the current struggles for a fallacious "plebiscite for a constituent assembly," 
meanwhile, seek to "reconcile" and demobilize the struggles and strikes.

On the other hand, claims the protests broke out of a year corporatism advocated by 
parties and trade union confederations. What the masses rejected in loud and clear was 
that union model, sold as "pragmatic", but that only benefits a small syndicated and 
integrated portion of the working class and for the vast majority did not bring any right, 
only further marginalization and precariousness. So claims for education, health, 
transportation and housing were so elated and should be defended as classist and 
collectivist claims, ie, not corporate ..

However, there is only one real way of unifying the direct action with the collectivist 
claims: the construction of the general strike. To this end, the working class must break 
the shackles that bind to opportunism and reformism, which hinder its constitution as an 
independent and opposite collective strength the bourgeoisie and the state. Methods must 
break that tie it in a consensual and harmless opposition who derive their real power of 
change and deposit for candidates and opportunistic leaders. It should say: Enough of 
Illusion, It's Time for Action!

However, how to deepen and prolong the methods of direct action and collectivist claims? 
Comrades, we are sure of one thing, we can not let them be scattered and lost, it is 
necessary that they des?guem in a new type of mass organization, to create a new tradition 
of struggle in our country.

For this it is necessary that in every confrontation with the oppressors and bureaucrats 
(from the smallest to the biggest conflict) emerged an autonomous group of workers willing 
to prolong the experience and withstand difficult periods of struggle. These opposition 
groups, scattered to the four corners of the country, at their places of work, study, and 
housing should be interconnected in a larger organization, the Revolutionary Syndicalist 
character. Comrades, this is the way we are building and depositing our forces and 
energies, we invite all to the path of struggle and not a reconciliation.