Statement by PCR Brazil on events in that country

*Nationalization of public transport now! The people in power!*

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, mostly young people, are in the
streets to demand the reduction of the absurd buses fares and a free pass.
Public transport in our country is of poor quality, though it is one of the
most expensive in the world. So 37 million Brazilians are forced to walk
because they do not have money to pay the fare. But this does not happen by
chance.

Public transport has been privatized. In all major cities a small number of
wealthy families are owners of bus companies. The rulers take bribes from
these entrepreneurs and, in turn, increase the fares every year, often more
than the rate of inflation, leaving the population to the greed of these
sharks. This minority, besides realizing super profits from the high fares,
receive subsidies from the municipalities and governments. Therefore, the
solution is nationalization of public transport.

But the people are also suffering from the dismantling of the Unified
Health Care System (SUS), with a mafia of health plans, with teachers
receiving low salaries and education being transformed into a commodity.

In the countryside, monopolies steal the land of the indigenous peoples and
peasants to export soybeans, while there is a lack of food on the workers’
tables. More than that, our oil is being auctioned to the multinationals in
exchange for crumbs.

When the people go into the streets to demand their rights, the governments
say there is no money and sends the Shocks Battalions to throw bombs and
shoot at the protesters.

However, to meet the interests of FIFA [International Federation of Soccer
Association], the federal government has spent billions to build and
renovate stadiums. In addition, the Government also uses public money to
pay the interest on the debt, enriching speculators, to ensure subsidies to
automakers and rescue failed banks, such as the Pan American millionaire
Silvio Santos, or the company OGX of the playboy Eike Batista.

For the workers only crumbs are left. Brazil has one of the lowest minimum
wages in Latin America, while the capitalist bosses earn fortunes.

The major media of the bourgeoisie, headed by Globo, are also responsible
for this situation because they supported the military dictatorship that
tortured and killed hundreds of Brazilian revolutionaries and spread
corruption throughout Brazil. Globo also supported Collor, the military
coup in Honduras, the imperialist wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, it
wants Brazil to become the U.S. back yard and defends the repression
against the popular movement. Incidentally, alongside FIFA, Rede Globo is
the is the one that makes the most from the Confederations Cup and the
World Cup. Therefore, it is urgent to democratize the media.

The fact is that the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class, takes possession of
all the riches produced by society, while most of the people survive on
almost nothing, live in slums or rental housing. When it rains, they lose
what little they have, and many lose their lives.

Also because of this failed system, over 200 million workers are unemployed
worldwide, of whom 75 million are youths.

The truth is that no one will free the people if they do not fight
themselves. To change this situation, the solution is, therefore, to fight
and not bow one’s head to the powerful. Without struggle there is no
revolution and with no revolution there is no transformation! The PCR is
struggling for a popular revolution and socialism!

Enough of the exploitation by the bosses and of abuses against the people!

We demand our rights!

The people are not stupid! Globo must go!

Nationalization of public transport now!

June 2013

*Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR)*