{"id":7685,"date":"2017-07-05T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2017-07-05T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:26:01","slug":"brazil-despite-betrayal-federations-heavy-weights-working-class-stopped-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2017\/07\/05\/brazil-despite-betrayal-federations-heavy-weights-working-class-stopped-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"[Brazil] Despite the betrayal of the Federations, heavy weights of the working class stopped on June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJULY 5TH, 2017
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\nOn June 30, the heavy weights of the Brazilian working class stopped and demonstrated from South to North of the country, despite the betrayal by the heads of the main federations.
\nOn the 29, the eve of the General Strike, the leaders of the UGT, For\u00e7a Sindical, and the CUT (and to a lesser extent, the CTB) \u201cpulled the rug\u201d of the Strike. They were already planning on dismantling the strike since June 21 and 23, but they couldn\u2019t because of the base reaction, the crisis in their own rank, and file and the pressure of CSP-Conlutas.
\nOn the 29 and 30, they surpassed the \u201cparalysis-mode\u201d, did not hesitate, and went out dismantling the strike through press statements \u2013like in the case of For\u00e7a and UGT-, or simply un-calling the actions, even at the expense of their own wearing process. Among metal workers of the ABC, the Union of the CUT called for the general strike until two days ago, and at the moment of the strike they just carried out a small action, even at the expense of its own corrosion among the base.
\nThey forced the cancellation of the strike just after the approval of the labor reform at the Senate\u2019s Committee of Constitution and Justice (CCJ), which took place simultaneously with the refusal by the SJC to Janot\u2019s request of imprisoning A\u00e9cio Neves (PSDB) and his separating him from office; as well as with the freedom of Rocha Loures (PMDB), \u201cthe guy of the 500k bag,\u201d friend of Temer. On the 30, to the astonishment of some, Lula made a statement to the press supporting Temer against Janot: \u201cIf the Attorney General of the Republic has a denounce against the President, he has to prove that<\/em>,\u201d as if Joesley [Batista] conversation recorded, and Temer\u2019s friend being caught with a suitcase of $500k were not proof enough. He even added: \u201cif the Attorney General is not speaking the truth, he has to be punished<\/em>\u201d.
\nIf there were still doubts on the \u201csuper-agreement\u201d [acord\u00e3o<\/em>] between the PT-PMDB-PSDB and others (including the SJC), those doubts were responded with the news that -coordinated by Lula- the lawyers of the PT, PSDB, and PMDB (so, of Temer, Dilma, Lula, and A\u00e9cio) led a common action against the Lava Jato.
\nSo, the main leaders of the biggest federations (UGT, For\u00e7a, and CUT) and the PT, PSDB, PMDB, DEM, PCdoB, and Solidariedade (of Paulinho da For\u00e7a) are together in a two-way\u00a0super-agreement<\/em>: the operation to save the corrupt ones (including Temer, the guy of the 500k bag, etc.), and in the negotiation of the labor reform, where they have no problem in betraying the working class in exchange for maintaining the indecent Union fee.
\nStrong Day of Struggles and Stoppages across the country, and General Strike in some states<\/strong>
\nAfter pulling the rug of the Strike, especially on Metropolitan S\u00e3o Paulo region, the press, the bosses, and the leaderships of the Federations tried to diminish the true impact of the stoppage along the country, and they even attempted to blame the base for dismantling the strike where they did not call for strike or betrayed it.
\nBut, some heavy weights of the working class maintained the strike, and the mobilization was felt across the country.
\nIn several cities and states, there was a general strike in fact. Oil workers, electricians, postal workers, bank workers, federal public workers and teachers stopped. In some expressive points of Brazil, big metal, chemical, textile, food, and cement factories also stopped. In S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, there was a 24 h stoppage carried by metal, chemical and food workers, besides transportation, banks, etc. Metal and chemical workers also stopped in Sorocaba (SP). Still in S\u00e3o Paulo, longshoremen stopped at the\u00a0Baixada Santista<\/em>.
\nMetal workers stopped in Paran\u00e1 and Minas Gerais; and also the meat industry in Belo Horizonte; the factory Alpargatas [shoes] in Para\u00edba; the factory Guararapes, in Rio Grande do Norte; the construction industry in Bel\u00e9m and Fortaleza; bus drivers in several cities (in Recife, where part of the Union leadership called to go to work, the pickets stopped the busses because the base supported the strike and wanted to stop). Also, the metro workers stopped in several cities, like in Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte. In Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1, Fortaleza, and Sergipe, it was a General Strike in practice.
\nThe truth is that June 30 could have been bigger than April 28 if it was for the rank and file disposal to struggle.
\nThose negotiating with the government under the table and prioritizing the electoral campaign transvested as \u201cBroad Front for Direct Elections now\u201d, after all, only tried to dismantle the existing struggles and blame the base for a weak mobilization. To carry a General Strike despite most leaderships being against it, it is necessary to have more than disposal to struggle: it is necessary to achieve a superior stage of mobilization and organization. The strong stoppage by the working class on the 30, with demonstrations and confronting the dismantling by most Union leaderships, shows that the class has the disposal to struggle, it is not defeated, and it is capable of moving a lot forward in action, organization, and consciousness.
\nIt is important to make this balance because we need to take lessons from it. We need to move forward in the base organization and accumulate forces to surpass the leadership that avoids its responsibility. The working class, workers, and popular and youth movements, are moving forward and learning from each day of struggle. On the 30, they accumulated a new experience.
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