A-Infos (en) Brazil, Federação Anarquista Gaúcha (FAG) - Libertarian Solidarity with the MST

Below is a statement by the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha in Brazil, in which it 
says that a ruling was made declaring the MST must be dissolved. ---- The report 
divulged in the last days, approved by the advice of the State Public Ministry 
made a sentence of the ruling class: the MST must be dissolved. The Movimento 
dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST - Movement of the Landless Agricultural 
Workers) was made target of a policy of criminalisation of poverty and of the 
social movements that is being led in the state of the Rio Grande do Sul. It is 
a policy of the police State, where executive government, devices of justice, 
media groups, transnational and latifundium corporations, concur with the police 
force fulfilling and make the law of the commander of the military brigade.

The association of transnational capital with the latifundium made the 
aggressive formula of the agro-business that concentrates, in the national 
scenario, the lands that are expropriated from the agrarian reform. The 
bio-combustibles, genetically modified soy and cellulose are the shop window of 
the monoculture that pulls the workers out of the fields and sends them to urban 
misery. Agro-business is able to be deeply articulated with politics, is a 
financier of electoral campaigns without partisan discrimination, is mounted in 
the expedients of the Lula government together with the oligarchies and the 
financial system, and is the privileged place to which the credits of the Bank 
of Development (BNDES) go. The neoliberal doctrine of the central administration 
of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT - Workers' Party) is surely a factor of the 
“economic growth”. In the state of RS, for the cellulose corporations, this 
power made donations to the adversary candidates Yeda Crusius of the PSDB and 
Olívio Dutra of the PT. With the resolved election campaign, it knocked down 
controls for the culture of exotic plants and finished eliminating, in the 
course of this year, with the environmental zoning to have pumps and to drink 
the guarana water.

As an organised expression of the peasants expelled from the land, the MST 
sought to change the profile of class struggle in the fields. The latifundium 
strengthened itself with transnational capital, planted eucalyptus, pinus and 
other species for cellulose production. It took the discourse of development 
where it only had idle property, masqueraded social function for extensive 
production that causes environmental damage and does not give anything to the 
people to eat or to be empowered with the great modes of communication. The 
resistance to these new formations of the dominant power was stronger, as it 
could not leave it to be. The tactics of working class struggle had made more of 
an offensive, leading to scenes where the enemies of agrarian reform play with 
more force and new techniques.

Elements of politics and ideology for the left also weigh in the arena where the 
MST acts: the project of reformist intention that polarized the social forces of 
change for the PT, when taken for the government of the republic revealed itself 
a tremendous failure. Integrated as the leading elite in the neoliberal 
guidelines of the power structure, it dragged the syndical movement organized in 
the CUT and all its social camp to bureaucratization and class collaboration. 
The MST saw itself isolated as method of direct action of the masses, as a 
combative proposal for social struggle, and lost to the dominant system its 
referring of the political project.

The state of Rio Grande Do Sul passed through a special conjuncture. It has a 
government corrupt until the highest level, directed by a weak party that 
accomodates the political groups of the oligarchy dividing state agencies as it 
orders the modus operanti of bourgeois politics in a liberal democratic regime. 
An economic policy line in the World Bank to make fiscal adjustment with 
privatizations, dismantling of the public services and to pay the expansion of 
the transnationals. An ultraconservative discourse circulating in the society by 
the force of the media groups and the emergence of the police forces in the 
social-political scene as normative institution. As regional institution of the 
power it has the character of a police State.

It is a state that diminishes the spaces of public freedom, inside of its crisis 
of representation and makes more ostensive violence as recourse of politics on 
the behavior of the poverty excluded from the government agenda. As discourse it 
has social reproduction for the always eminent figure of delinquency, the 
disturbance and the violation of property.

The MST, as the social movement most expressive of the struggles of the working 
class in this state, is the target of a plot of the institutional and economic 
powers to break the popular resistance to the oppressive model that is imposed 
by the Gaúcha elites and the transnationals. Police infiltrations, violence on 
encampments and mobilisations for agrarian reform, judicial actions that 
criminalise the movement, according to the report published in the press, are 
the concretions of a confessed proposal to taint it in illegality in order 
dissolve it. To destroy this that has been a brave organisation in the defense 
of the interests of the working class, that has made the path of social justice, 
skinned with their own hands the dignity of the poor expelled from the field.

Our modest militant force is solidary. The MST and the struggle without truces 
for agrarian reform is a cause of all that fight for a new world without asking 
for it. To reorganise classist unionism from the base, to give expression to the 
struggle of the poor people of the city and to empower the voice of the 
communities without asking for license are the tasks of the hour, of these 
difficult times, where the best solidarity is made fighting.


NO SOCIAL STRUGGLE WITHOUT SOLIDARITY!
AWAY WITH YEDA/FEIJÓ AND THE WORLD BANK!
STRUGGLE AND CREATE POPULAR POWER!

GAÚCHA ANARCHIST FEDERATION - FAG
FORUM OF ORGANISED ANARCHISM - FAO
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