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<h1 class="reader-title">Brazil: The Indispensable Need for
Resistance</h1>
By Carlos Aznárez on October 28, 2018</div>
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<p>The die is cast. There are no longer any polls
that can be used to draw un provable results.
The truth is that a fascist has come to the
presidency of Brazil by a vote of millions. <span
id="more-8061"></span>The fact is serious from
any point of view, and not only for Brazilians,
but this vote will undoubtedly have an
unpredictable impact on the rest of the
continent and beyond.</p>
<p>The Nazi Bolsonaro won by nearly a ten point
advantage thanks to many factors that will have
to be analyzed starting from this very moment.
One of them, the fundamental one, is this
insistence from many popular sectors of not
taking into account that in the framework of
these bourgeois democracies that they are
absolutely controlled by the enemies of the
peoples. To continue to insist on voluntarily
competing in that racket is like putting your
arm in the mouth of a hungry lion. Let’s see if
we can convince ourselves that when they say
“democracy” they are announcing precisely the
exact opposite of what we imagine.</p>
<p>At this point in time, after a new test of
playing the game on the enemy’s field, with
Lula, a popular leader handcuffed and censored,
it would have been better to withdraw from the
competition all together, denouncing it and
explaining that in those conditions the fraud
was consummated. Bolsonaro would have won anyway
but at least the political fact would have been
made to show that those institutions that call
themselves “sovereign” are not, and instead have
become the great trap of authentic democracy;
popular democracy, participatory and arising
from the grassroots and not from campaigns of
mass intoxication.</p>
<p>There are several elements that paved the way
for this failed path like the repeated tricks of
the hegemonic media; the liars and makers of
scenarios as fictitious as they are effective
that were drilled into the brains of many people
with zero political consciousness.</p>
<p>To this must be added the “imprisoned Lula”
effect, which was useful for the opposition in
removing him from the scene, with charges of
corruption never proven. Not only that, but then
working to humiliate him and diminish his
charisma so as to not influence the results.</p>
<p>Then there will have to be computed other
unavoidable elements that have masked the
victory of those who have carried out an
electoral campaign loaded with threats to the
popular sectors and who have opened the door to
sectarian violence, very similar to that
experienced by Germany in the brutal days of
Adolf Hitler. In this regard, we must not forget
just how big a role that the reactionary
evangelical Pentecostal churches played in
turning Bolsonaro into the “angel of salvation”
in their sermons while characterizing Lula and
his followers as the “demons” to be destroyed.</p>
<p>Another issue to bear in mind is how the
anti-PT vote has played out, as a result of many
lies, but also the acts of corruption in which
several of its leaders undoubtedly fell into. In
this aspect, the onslaught of the right was fed
by this reality. To continue denying it at this
point is of no use. And in no way does this take
away from the many positive aspects of the PT,
especially in Lula’s time.</p>
<p>Now, as Joao Pedro Stedile of the MST said, and
as Fernando Haddad himself repeated on his
post-election night speech; the only great path
left to the Brazilian people is that of
resistance. In order to do this, it is useless
to become discouraged or fall into depressive
wells no matter how hard this blow is received.</p>
<p>It is important to emphasize the role that many
in Brazil have played all these years. There has
been the constant and militant Landless and the
Homeless movements, also the recent strength
given to the struggle by women and sexual
dissidents, who have not stopped fighting for a
single day, many times submerged in the
impotence of not being heard by those who had
the obligation to do so. There have been
thousands who have confronted hit men,
millionaire landowners, Mother Earth’s
predators, xenophobes, racists and more. For
them, talking about resistance is commonplace
and surely, because they are part of those who
have threatened Bolsonario in the electoral
campaign, they will have to continue to be in
the front line of the battle against the
plundering and oppressive bourgeoisie.</p>
<p>The issue is to not to leave them out there by
themselves, as happened in part during several
periods of the Temer government. They are part
of a vanguard of popular unity that will have to
be built step by step from this point on,
including incorporating the Brazilian trade
union movement.</p>
<p>It is essential there and in other countries
that suffer right-wing tyrannies that their
respective fuhrers (with Bolsonaro at the head)
do not find governance easy, there must be a
wearing down of their authoritarian mandate,
rejecting their bravado and denouncing their
brutalities locally and internationally. Fascism
“made in Brazil” cannot be given the slightest
advantage in these four years mandate. In the
name of Marielle Franco, for Moa and for all the
young people who have fallen from the hands of
barbarity of Bolsonaro’s “black shirts”.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2018/10/28/brasil-la-indispensable-necesidad-de-la-resistencia-por-carlos-aznarez/">http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2018/10/28/brasil-la-indispensable-necesidad-de-la-resistencia-por-carlos-aznarez/</a></p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano, translated by
North America bureau</p>
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