The situation requires a broad mobilization of all the political and social forces in the world committed to democracy, to the struggle for the environment, against oppressions and inequalities of all kinds.
All solidarity with the workers, black people, women, youth, natives, peasants, landless and homeless people, LGBTI community, teachers, professors, scientists and artists who will be the targets of “ultra” neoliberal, conservative and authoritarian policies of the new occupant of Planalto Palace.
Pedro Fuentes, a leading member of the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) talked about the conditions that gave rise to Bolsonaro’s victory and the resistance that has already emerged, in an interview with Cami Q, who also translated it from Portuguese.
Definitely "Free Lula" will not be the flag that unifies broad sectors of Brazilian society around this program and this calendar. The hegemony of the PT already brought the mass movement to innumerable defeats.
The National Executive Board of the MES makes its statement on the results of the presidential elections
A statement by antifascist democratic forces in Brazil ahead of the presidential run-off on 28th October
The fate of the PSOL and the Brazilian socialists is strongly linked to the capacity of the people to resist. In this we trust and bet our best energies.
While Jair Bolsonaro’s PSL (Social Liberal Party) bursted and ensured the second biggest bench in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, feminist women have also succeeded on these elections, promising strong clashes during the next legislature.
The Movimento Esquerda Socialista, an internal current of the PSOL, converts all its forces and its political and social accumulation, in this second round, to the task of defeating Bolsonaro and sweeping away the proto-fascism that is currently in development in Brazil, voting for Haddad 13.
The events of Sept 29 could be the most decisive event for the confrontation of Bolsonaro and the project he represents. While the old left is concerned almost entirely in the pragmatic vote against him, we have the task to prove that the weight on the streets is decisive for Bolsonaro's defeat.
The advance of the far-right has fertile ground in this rupture which is a serious threat to the workers and the people. However, we must avoid a unilateral reading of the world and Brazil.
It is necessary to understand what the rise of Bolsonaro means to fight without truce, in the streets and in the ballot boxes, building an alternative for the present and for the future.
A new page to support and build new alternatives in Latin America and the world, defending the power of the workers and people against the 1% of the rich and privileged, and a society without exploitation.
