In view of several requests from the media regarding the recent developments in Brazil, the PCP would like to stress the following:
The recent developments in Brazil cannot be dissociated from capitalism’s deepening crisis which marks the international situation and has currently profound consequences in the so-called emerging countries.
Trying to take advantage of real problems and deep contradictions in Brazilian society, its most retrograde and anti-democratic sectors promote a fierce operation of destabilization and of coup-plotting nature seeking to achieve what they could not in the last presidential elections - the action set up against Lula da Silva is part of this broader process of destabilization.
What emerges in the recent developments in Brazil is not the attempt to fight corruption and a political and electoral system that favours this but rather an action carried out by the most retrograde sectors - themselves immersed in corruption for decades - seeking, through the instrumentalization of the judiciary and the action of the media, the creation of conditions for the reversal of the advances in the living conditions of the Brazilian people achieved in the last 13 years.
A destabilizing action inseparable from the set of maneuvers of interference promoted by the United States aimed at the progressive and sovereign affirmation processes in Latin America.
The PCP is solidary with the Brazilian progressive forces, with the workers and the Brazilian people and their struggle in defence of their rights, democracy, justice and social progress.
