Brazil: powerful mobilization in Recife against 6×1

Featured image: workers protest against the 6×1. Source: A Nova Democracia (AND)

On December 20 protesters blocked the main avenue of the center of Recife to demand the end of the 6×1. A hundred workers and students took to the streets with big banners and chanting slogans against the Ministry of Work and against the bourgeoisie. We already reported on the big mobilizations all over the country against 6×1.

AND reports that “The avenue was blocked by the demonstrators during 30 minutes in two occasions, and in this way, as a student of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) explained to the Support Committee of AND, this action had “a strong impact on the movement in the center of the city”.

Leaflets were distributed and the activists called to struggle on the streets. “Coletivo Mangue Vermelho” was among the attendants to the mobilization and reaffirmed the struggle “against the modern slavery, which is 6×1”. Moreover they highlighted that the workers’ demands will be only achieved “through intense struggle on the streets, with combativeness, with independency, with class consciousness”.

Other students condemned the electoral farce, stating that “these politicians continue selling our struggle and saying that the things will change there [at the Parliament], but there they just lie to us. We have to stop believing that this filthy electoral farce will change something, we have to base ourselves on the people’s struggle”.