It's not over!
It must end!
I want the abolition of military police!
It's not over!
It must end!
I want the abolition of military police!
In the past, social movements
have been critical of the institutions
that sustain the regime that exploits and oppresses
the people of this country.
Movements have emerged calling for demilitarization
and even the end of police,
pointing out that courts and prisons
have been created and have always served
the interests of the political and financial elite.
But this changed during Jair Bolsonaro's government.
With the successive fascist threats
to the so-called "democratic institutions",
coup attempts and authoritarianism,
a good part of the left stopped criticizing
the state institutions
and started to fiercely defend them.
If on one hand,
Lula's alliance with his former opponents,
took the institutional left
and all party politics
even further to the center and to the right.
On the other,
activists, social movements,
and leftist media
reproduce and strengthen
a reactionary discourse
that reinforces the legitimacy of the state.
These blockades are
terrorist movements.
They're there commiting crimes.
Illegal blockades,
illegal demonstrations, terrorist acts.
Blockading highways
in a criminal fashion.
They need to face the law.
To hell with anti-punitivism!
Those who until then
were calling for repression
and respect for the law
were the reactionary forces and elites,
who benefit from the status quo.
We need to make it clear
that what we are fighting is their fascist project,
which seeks to uphold and advance
a conservative and authoritarian project,
which exterminates and exploits
the people of this territory
for the benefit of a rich and white elite.
Barricades, blockades,
destruction of private property
and clashes with the police
are not a problem in themselves.
They are valuable tactics.
Historically used by social movements
to resist the advances of capitalism and the state
and to fight for a dignified life.
We cannot deny
that the way fascists use these tactics is different.
After all, they are fascists.
They do not care about human life
and do not hesitate to block ambulances
and people seeking medical care
or other essential services.
And unlike social movements,
which seek to attack structures of oppression,
Bolsonaro's supporters
violently attack anyone
who does not show explicit support
for their authoritarian and conservative project.
Going so far as to torture,
beat, and, in extreme cases,
kill people who disagree with their political views.
Kill them all!
Including pregnant women!
To give the police a free hand
to repress blockades, barricades,
and other forms of direct action,
even if it bars fascist movements,
is to reinforce and legitimize
instruments that will hit us even harder.
No matter how tough the laws are,
the police and courts
will always hesitate and be more restrained
when it comes to cracking down and punishing fascists
than when cracking down on poor, black,
indigenous, peripheral and queer people.
Just look at examples of how the police are reluctant
and struggle to remove the blockades,
taking weeks to enforce court orders.
On how the judiciary,
even when trying to impose limits on Bolsonaro,
has not yet acted on the various crimes committed by him.
It is worth remembering that Alexandre de Moraes,
now a member of the Supreme Court,
a symbol of democratic institutions in the face of Bolsonaro's fascism,
was secretary of public security
during the government of Geraldo Alckmin
in the state of São Paulo,
and his administration was marked
by brutal repression of social movements and protests.
He has never been on our side.
Worse than an illusion,
it is a trap to
hand over our security and our future
to institutions that were created
to control and repress us,
while protecting those who slaughter us.
Although the police may momentarily
undo the blockades,
punish some of the businessmen who finance the coup attempt,
they will never put an end to the fascist movement.
They have already made it clear that they are part of it.
Of course we must not stand idly by
and watch fascism take over the streets
and threaten our existence.
We need to create and strengthen our own organizations
to ensure our safety.
Because nobody will do it for us.
Bolsonarism has given new life
to far-right violence
against people and essential services,
something we have not seen in an organized manner
since the Military Dictatorship.
For the past five years
the left has left it to the institutions
to solve this problem,
but it has only become more violent and radical.
To hand over our power to act
to professional politicians and courts is to retreat.
It is to allow the right to advance in the streets
and in the institutions.
It is urgent to reclaim the streets.
Defend our territories.
And put the reactionary forces on the defensive.