Inter-Imperialist Crisis and Conflict Create Opportunities for Communist Revolution
A breakfast of eggs, potatoes and sometimes beef move millions of Brazilians every morning from their homes to factories, schools and army barracks. For over a week eggs and potatoes along with thousands of other items, have disappeared from daily life. A massive strike by truck drivers has brought Brazil to a standstill. Supermarket shelves are empty; there is no fuel at the gas stations and the garbage piles up uncollected. “Normal life” has ceased to exist.
There is talk of revolution. “Neither Lula nor the military can offer a solution. We need to expand the strike, everybody wants to join except Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers Party,” said an aerospace worker who is a friend of ICWP. The government and capitalist bosses–in panic–try to blame the truckers for chaos. Mass sentiment is that the strike did not create chaos, chaos created the strike. Despite the hardships, 86% of the Brazilians support the strike.
At the heart of the strike is skyrocketing fuel prices. The fluctuations in fuel prices are a direct result of growing inter-imperialist crisis involving the US, Russia, China and others. Petrobras, the largest state-owned oil company in Brazil, is suffering massive losses. The bosses are trying to privatize Petrobras, which will further destabilize oil prices.
Emboldened by the truck drivers’ strike, Petrobras workers are walking out too. Other key industries like aerospace, transport, mining have the potential to mobilize political strikes for communist power. Millions of workers in Brazil won to ending wage slavery could trigger a world wide uprising leading to communist revolution.
Deepening inter-imperialist conflict is creating opportunities for the working class to build a massive ICWP to fight for communism. Bosses’ crisis is creating many such opportunities in every corner of the world. Our urgent task is to deepen our roots among industrial workers, soldiers and students.
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