AND Editorial, Part Two – The Ceasefire Is The Beginning Of The Last Chapter Of The Palestinian Liberation
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the second part of the latest editorial by A Nova Democracia. We have recently shared an unofficial translation of the first part.
The recent “honeymoon” between Luiz Inácio (PT) and Yankee ringleader Donald Trump exposed new instances of government corruption, after the warm welcome they received in the palaces of New York, in a meeting described by the media monopolies as “surprising” and “the result of lobbying
by Brazilian businessmen” (read: Brazilian ruling classes servile to imperialism, especially Yankee imperialism). Among the “Brazilian businessmen” were the well-known bigwigs Wesley and Joesley Batista, owners of J&F Investimentos, the holding company of JBS, considered the largest company in Brazilian “agribusiness” (latifundium’s agro-export). And curiously, less than two weeks after providing this service to Luiz Inácio’s government of class conciliation and collaboration, one of their companies—JBS Aves—was removed from the “dirty list of slave labor” by an individual decision of the Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho. This minister even concealed a case in April of this nefarious form of servitude prevalent in the country, when ten workers were subjected to degrading conditions while working in a chicken farm owned by this company in Arvorezinha (RS). Is this not an encouragement to circumvent workers’ rights and a type of the abominable crime of corruption, namely influence peddling?
On the US side, talks with Luiz Inácio represent the handling of Yankee power established here to create a barrier to social-imperialist China, which took advantage of the “tariff hike” on Brazil to grow its influence and expand imports of Brazilian commodities (such as meat and soybeans). For this very reason, it also shows that Trump’s tariff war has a limit, and is blocked by the Yankee establishment insofar as it cannot throw all target countries into China’s lap. For this very reason, Trump was induced to talk to Luiz Inácio, especially since he has the guarantee that the latter will serve all his interests, because there has never been a better servant of the US in contemporary Brazil, in terms of efficiency, than the yellow union leader, starting with the era of orange unionists (red on the outside and yellow on the inside) trained by Yankee agencies such as the American Institute for the Development of Free Trade Unions (Iadesil).
Maintaining his patriotic stance, the yellow unionist called for an end to tariffs and measures against Brazilian authorities, especially ministers of the judicial caste, who (poor things!) are now prevented from traveling to the US and can only go to Disney in Europe. Furthermore, as a great admirer of old bourgeois democracy, he reaffirmed his admiration for “American democracy” (yes, that’s right), which, along with Brazil’s, are “the two greatest democracies in the West” (sic), even though they are in a state of unprecedented decay, with the application of typically fascist measures and rampant centralization of power in the executive branch by the ultra-reactionary Donald Trump and in Brazil with the increasing curtailment of the right to expression, demonstration, and assembly, aiming to criminalize the popular struggle. A lackey is always a lackey.
Now cozying up to Trump and justifying their subservience, government leaders and the mainstream media are trumpeting that all the confusion was the result of an alleged “disagreement” between the ultra-reactionary Yankee president and his secretary of State, Marco Rubio, while Bolsonaro supporters, who were left in the gutter, bet that such a “disagreement” could still lead to a better scenario, refusing to admit that Trump’s bravado was a ploy and that he raffled off Bolsonaro when it suited him best to force a more advantageous negotiation for the US and make the Brazilian government cower even more. In view of this, it is up to revolutionaries and democrats to unmask the foul “chemistry” between Trump and Luiz Inácio as a hoax to further subjugate the country to imperial interests, which aim to plunder the nation’s wealth and continue to militarize it in preparation for low-intensity, counterrevolutionary warfare in a scenario of advancing people’s revolutionary struggle throughout Brazil, especially in the countryside.
