For a mobilization against the fare hike and in defense of wages.

Petrobras' management, whose president is appointed by the Bolsonaro government, decreed an increase of 18,77% in the price per liter of gasoline, 24,9% in the price of diesel, and 16% in the price per kilogram of cooking gas, effective from the 11th.

Bolsonaro: "I don't decide anything"

Faced with the massive tariff increase that will cause a general rise in the prices of goods and services, driving inflation already above double digits and affecting the lives of more than 220 million Brazilians, the illegitimate president, Jair Bolsonaro, declared: "I don't set prices at Petrobras. I don't decide anything.".

We are forced to agree with the declaration of impotence of the fascist captain pretending to be brave when it comes to confronting, at least in words, women, indigenous people, workers, and the entire exploited population of the country, in order to defend the attacks of his government, in collusion with the entire coup-plotting right wing, against the working people.

He, in fact, decides nothing. Like every bourgeois government, a lackey of imperialism, of the big monopolies and the financial speculators who took over Petrobras after its privatization, the Bolsonaro government has no real power. It acts, gives speeches, makes promises… but when push comes to shove, the real owners of the government, of the coup regime, the capitalist sharks who seized control of one of our country's greatest assets—the gigantic oil reserves that could guarantee the country relative autonomy in the face of the international crisis caused by the actions of American imperialism against Russia and, in fact, against the vast majority of humanity—are the ones who decide.

Down with imperialism!

Brazil's subservience is so great that its president, who salutes the American flag, after spending weeks proclaiming he would contain the rise in fuel prices in the country, watched as Petrobras' management decreed an increase that was only one percentage point lower than the fuel price hike in Germany, a country directly affected by the conflict in Ukraine due to its dependence on Russian gas and oil, whose embargo demonstrates how much the situation aims only to serve the interests of the US, even if it means bringing down its own allies.

The situation in our country, as throughout the world, demonstrates the vital need to carry on the fight against imperialism.

That's why it's necessary support Russia and other countries in their struggle against the slave-owning domination that monopoly governments seek to impose, while at the same time it is necessary to raise up Brazilian workers and youth against imperialist domination in our country.

The oil has to be ours!

Besides fighting to put it into Out with Bolsonaro and all the coup-plotting bourgeoisie! That supports this veritable situation of servitude, in which our wealth and our sweat are handed over to feed the imperialist vultures, it is necessary to raise a program to defend national interests in the face of the crisis, which has as its central points, among others, the nationalization of oil, the renationalization of Petrobrass (100% state-owned) under workers' control.

The CUT (Unified Workers' Central), the unions, and the entire left need to call for people to take to the streets against the fare hikes, demanding... immediate reduction of fuel prices, the ban on further increases, also in transport and other essential services.

Salary trigger now!

At the same time, faced with the inflationary wave that the situation is fueling and which constitutes a weapon of the bourgeoisie to expropriate the workers, it is necessary to fight for... 100% compensation for wage losses and the establishment of a salary triggerThat is, the automatic adjustment of wages whenever inflation reaches 3%.

These and other central demands in the face of the crisis must be linked to the struggle to end the regime of national surrender.

Struggle committees, for Lula as president.

More than ever, faced with the extreme cowardice of the national bourgeoisie, the struggle for the sovereignty of the country and the defense of the interests of the majority of the people against imperialism is in the hands of the working class; hence the importance of mobilization in defense of the candidacy of... Lula president, with thousands of Struggle Committees, as part of the fight for a government of the city and country workerswhich paves the way for the expropriation of the bourgeoisie.