It's time to denounce, resist, and broaden political unity for the struggle.

In Tijolaço, journalist Fernando Brito launched the campaign "There will be no vacation, there will be a fight."I agree with him: we really can't wait until after Carnival to take to the streets to protest against the slashing of pensions. "If we fail in this, we will be failing our children and our grandchildren, we will be condemning them to slavery," Brito warns.

According to the coup plotters' calendar, the usurper Temer plans to approve the bill by the end of the first half of 2017. The Brazilian people will need to work 49 years to earn a full salary. Meanwhile, the illegitimate president retired at 55, and, as reported in the press, the Minister of Finance receives R$ 250 in retirement benefits. Thus, it is easy to propose the requirement of 49 years of work for the rest of the Brazilian population.

With this proposal, negotiation is impossible. It effectively destroys social security rights. And it is cruel to the poorest, as it eliminates the link between the minimum wage and the Continuous Benefit Payment (BPC) and raises the age for accessing the benefit to 70 years. Thus, it affects precisely the poorest and most vulnerable: the elderly and people with disabilities.

I commented in an article published in Brazil 247 This is a time to denounce, to resist, to broaden political and social unity for the struggle. It is necessary to organize unified municipal committees to inform and organize the resistance. It is possible and necessary to defeat these proposals. It is possible and necessary to defeat the coup-plotting Temer and his allies.