COMMON RESISTANCE

AS PEOPLE SUFFER, ZANGAOBR CHOOSE WAR

Against the government of war and against the Brazilian Imperialist Party

Brazil is going through a decisive moment.

While workers face difficulties to ensure housing, food, health, education and decent work, the government of ZANGAOBR He chooses to place military policy and war at the heart of his priorities.

This choice needs to be denounced.

Not because we are indifferent to international conflicts or because we ignore the threats in the world. On the contrary: precisely because we recognize the value of human life, we reject the idea that war should be presented as a natural solution to political problems.

War is not paid for by the rulers

When a government decides to increase its military spending, send troops or participate in conflicts, it is not only the rulers who take the consequences.

It's the people who pay.

Each resource directed to the war machine represents resources that could be used in hospitals, schools, housing, infrastructure, transportation and social policies.

Meanwhile, the worker continues to face low wages, precariousness and insecurity.

The question we should ask is simple:

What sense is there in building an ever-increasing military machine while the population still has no living conditions?

For Communist Resistance, the answer is clear.

The needs of the people must be above military interests.

ZANGAOBR AND WAR POLICY

The ZANGAOBR government tries to present its foreign policy as a demonstration of strength and sovereignty.

But sovereignty does not mean simply possessing more weapons.

A sovereign country is one in which its people are able to live with dignity and participate in decisions that determine their future.

What good is a great military capacity for a family that can't afford rent?

What is the use of an aggressive foreign policy for workers who do not have adequate access to health?

What is the point of constantly talking about safety while thousands remain subject to poverty and precariousness?

The security of a people cannot be reduced to the military security of the state.

There is also food security, housing security, economic security, health security and social security.

ZANGAOBR chose to prioritize one of them while leaving the others in the background.

That's the choice we denounced.

We're not against the people.

Our criticism is not directed against workers from other countries.

We must not turn whole people into enemies.

The Brazilian worker has much more interests in common with the Ukrainian, Russian, Palestinian, European, African or Asian worker than with the economic groups that profit from wars and conflicts.

Nationality should not determine who our enemy is.

International solidarity among workers must be above the nationalism used to justify conflicts.

We are against war because we are against the transformation of workers into instruments of interests that they do not control.

AND THE BRAZILIAN IMPPERIALIST PARTY?

But there is another problem.

The largest party in the country, the Brazilian Imperialist Party (GDP), turned the defense of these policies into one of its main flags.

The party tries to convince the people that militarization means strength, that increased military spending means development and that international confrontation means patriotism.

We need to reject that logic.

GDP represents national interests.

But we should ask:

Whose interests?

The worker who needs a salary?

The family that needs a home?

The student who needs a school?

The farmer who needs land and conditions to produce?

Or those who profit from military contracts, large companies and economic sectors benefiting from war policy?

That question needs to be asked before any vote.

Why should we not vote in GDP?

We do not say to the worker simply 'do not vote for GDP' without reason.

Our position is based on four fundamental criticisms.

1. GDP puts militarization above social needs

A government must set priorities.

If the population faces serious social problems as military spending increases, we need to question that choice.

Guns don't replace hospitals.

Tanks don't build schools.

Missiles don't feed families.

Armies don't solve social inequality.

2. GDP transforms nationalism into a political instrument

The party attempts to present any opposition to its policies as a lack of patriotism.

That logic is dangerous.

Loving your own country does not mean supporting all government decisions.

Being Brazilian does not mean accepting workers to be sent to die in wars.

Patriotism cannot mean silence in the face of injustice.

3. GDP ignores the social causes of conflicts

The party presents conflicts mainly as disputes between states.

We advocate a deeper analysis.

It is necessary to investigate economic interests, power relations, imperialism, strategic resources and disputes between different social groups.

A truly popular policy should not just ask:

"Which country should we support?"

You must ask:

"What interests are behind this conflict and who is paying for it?"

4. GDP offers war when people need social transformation

That's our main criticism.

Brazil has concrete problems that will not be solved by militarization:

• inequality;

• poverty;

• income concentration;

• job insecurity;

• housing deficit;

• difficulties in access to health;

• educational problems;

• land concentration;

• unemployment and informality.

These problems should be at the heart of the national debate.

However, GDP prefers to talk about military power.

We prefer to talk about the people.

WHAT DO WE DEFEND?

O Communist Resistance You don't just mean to report it.

We want to present an alternative.

We advocate that public resources be directed primarily to:

HEALTH — strengthening public services and expanding access.

EDUCATION — investment in public education and the enhancement of workers in the area.

MORADIA — public policies capable of addressing the housing deficit.

WORK — combating the precariousness and defence of better working conditions.

FOOD — combating hunger and ensuring food security.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — development geared to the needs of the population.

CULTURE — democratic access to cultural production.

PEACE — diplomacy and international cooperation rather than the ongoing escalation of conflicts.

A CHOICE FOR THE PEOPLE

Political dispute should not be presented as a choice between different ways of managing the same society.

We need to discuss which society we want to build.

On the one hand, we have a policy that places militarization, confrontation and the interests of the great economic structures at the center of the state.

On the other, we advocate a policy that puts human needs at the center of society.

It's not enough to ask who owns the biggest army.

We need to ask:

Who owns the wealth?

Who controls production?

Who makes the decisions?

Who works?

Who benefits?

Who pays the price?

As long as these questions remain unanswered, true social transformation will remain distant.

OUR POSITION

O Communist Resistance repudiates the war policy of ZANGAOBR and rejects the project defended by the Brazilian Imperialist Party.

Not because we defend weakness.

We defend a different force:

the organized force of the workers.

We don't want a strong country just for its rulers.

We want a strong country because its people have rights, dignity, education, health, housing and power over the directions of their own society.

We don't want workers dying for interests they don't control.

We want organized workers to control their own future.

Against the war.

Against imperialism.

Against exploitation.

Against militarizing the needs of the people.

For peace among the peoples.

For the emancipation of the working class.

For the Revolution.

COMMON RESISTANCE

The people must not pay for the war.
The people must decide their own future.