Brazil: REVOLUTIONARY UNIFICATION

BY REVOLUCION SOCIALISTA, ISL BRAZIL

The ISL took a very important step in Brazil. On February 10, 11 and 12 of this year, the Unification Conference of Alternativa Socialista and Luta Socialista was held in São Paulo. From it, emerged: “Revolución Socialista.” It is common to hear or know of organizations that are in crisis or dividing. In our case, unification shows a different path.

UNITE, TO WHAT END?

We revolutionaries have a strategic objective that guides our activity and militant action, to build a party of the working class, strong and with social influence, forged in the method of democratic centralism, that puts itself forward to lead the mobilization of the working masses to make the revolution, destroy the capitalist state and build socialism, in the country and around the world.

As all around the world, organizations in Brazil have fluctuated between two poles, the sectarian and the opportunistic. As a consequence, a wide variety of currents emerge, some larger than others, but the result is that what prevails is dispersion, little influence on the masses and, as a consequence, a moving away from the strategic objective of building a strong revolutionary party. Our unification, with the emergence of the Revolucion Socialista, is an initial attempt to begin to solve the problems that exist, as a tool with fraternal debates, elabo- ration of policies and assessments that allow us to grow and advance.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LULA-ALCKMIN BROAD FRONT OPENS SPACE FOR ORGANIZING ON THE LEFT

Our characterization is that this new government, a populist front of national unity, has little room for maneuver in developing comprehensive policies that could solve the problems that affect workers and the poor. Because it is basically a government that responds to the interests of business, agribusiness and banks. A government that unified the left of the order, the traditional right and even many Bolsonaristas, to save bourgeois institutionality and its regime threatened by the crisis. But this regime, this farce of democracy, has not resolved the difficulties of the people for a long time and, on the contrary, uses these institutions against them.

We defend democratic gains and we are aware of the danger that a second extreme right government would mean, which is why we called to vote for Lula in the second round of 2022. But he does not confuse us nor do we have any expectations, and we firmly say that it is not our government. Therefore, our task continues to be the construction of a political alternative of the working class, with a socialist program that fights for a government of those who have never ruled, a government of the exploited and oppressed.

WHERE IS THE PSOL GOING?

In this context, the PSOL, the party in which we are an internal tendency, is being led down the path of adaptation to the regime and distancing itself from the struggles of the working class. This is the policy of its majority leadership and it is accompanied and validated by class based currents that are referenced in the Mandelist International. As a product of the sectarian politics of other currents of the revolutionary left, in addition to the centrism of others, there is limited scope to defeat the liquidationist politics of the majority leadership.

In the coming months, Revolucion Socialista will have the great challenge of following the development of this process and evaluating the changes that are occurring in the PSOL. We will adjust our policy and orientation to better position ourselves in relation to the fundamental strategy of building the revolutionary party. A task that we will carry out together with our international, the ISL, which expresses a positive dynamic of militant and revolutionary internationalism on the five continents, growing and strengthening. We, the Brazilian section of the ISL, will do everything in our power to contribute to that construction.