A-Infos (en) Brazil, FOB: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LIING - THERE WAS NO INCREASE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE! BUT MAINTENANCE OF THE SALARY SCHEME (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Recently, the Lula-Alckimin government announced an "increase" in the minimum 
wage of 18 R$ (eighteen reais). While most of the so-called "left" organizations 
celebrate the triumphal "victory" of bourgeois democracy over fascism, the 
maintenance of the salary squeeze regime goes almost unnoticed. ---- Eighteen 
reais of increase is not an increase in the minimum wage! ---- A basic food 
basket in the city of São Paulo, for example, according to PROCON/SP data for 
2022, costs R$ 1,249.49, while the minimum wage reaches R$ 1,230.00 with the 
false increase granted by the new government. ---- The male and female workers 
are barely able to meet their vital food needs, let alone transportation, 
housing, health, education and leisure. The most affected are always the black 
working class and women workers.

125 million people are food insecure. 1 million malnourished children. 9.5 
million unemployed and 4.3 million discouraged.

Hunger plagues the masses in Brazil, one of the biggest food producers in the WORLD.

According to DIEESE data, the minimum wage, to meet all basic needs, should be R$ 
6,641.58. Therefore, we are very far from receiving the MINIMUM we deserve as a 
working class, which lives from work and not from exploitation and batting 
privileges, like big businessmen, bosses, bankers, landowners and politicians.

If the bourgeois and reactionary governments of Michel Temer and Bolsonaro 
promoted a policy of brutal attacks on the rights of the working people and 
imposed the arrocho regime, what the Lula-Alckimin government is doing is KEEPING IT!

Our class does not watch these attacks paralyzed, but it is reacting: in 2022, 
one thousand and sixty-seven strikes broke out in Brazil, that is 48% greater 
than 2021. The rise of strikes took place at a time of intense demobilization and 
depoliticization promoted by the large trade union centrals, due to farce 
electoral campaigns.

The proletariat struggles, and the struggle of the proletariat, mainly the 
precarious and informal ones, coming from the neighborhoods, villages, outskirts 
and slums, must guide the line of revolutionary syndicalism, through combative 
and anti-collaborationist tactics.

It is necessary to overthrow the pedantic, electoral and reactionary union 
leaderships, through classist and combative base oppositions. But not only that: 
it also supports and builds grassroots unions, through the SIGAs (Autonomous 
General Unions), especially among categories that were excluded from official 
unionization.

Fighting for better working conditions, a real increase in the minimum wage and a 
reduction in the working day from 8 hours to 6 hours are flags that must be 
raised immediately. Let's not wait for the collaborationists, let's fight with 
our strength and all our energy, through strikes that trample union 
bureaucracies, occupations of workspaces, demonstrations, barricades and 
combative demonstrations.

REBUILD REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM!

BUILD THE GENERAL STRIKE, ORGANIZE THE REBELLION

REAL MINIMUM WAGE NOW!

https://lutafob.org/9728/
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