Stédile calls on people to take to the streets to make 'Lula's return' possible.

247 - Fulfilling a series of engagements in Bahia, the national leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), João Pedro Stédile, expressed his dissatisfaction with the direction the country has taken with the parliamentary intervention that removed the elected president Dilma Rousseff (PT) from the highest office in the Republic.

Stédile also defended Lula's return in 2018 and made a point of highlighting that the MST advocates for an Exclusive and Sovereign Constituent Assembly to oversee the political system. “We want a Constituent Assembly, and we will only achieve this with the masses in the streets. With the coup government, the crisis will worsen, as part of the coup is to prevent Lula's candidacy in 2018. Lula is the voice of the people to build a new project for the country.”

For Stédile, this option could initiate the process of reforming the country and resolve the current political and social crisis once and for all, in addition to defending the participation of the people, demanding rights and public policies in the streets, demonstrating. “The economic crisis is the basis of the various social crises that are implemented in our country today, causing two effects. The first is the conflict between classes, generating a weakening of conciliatory policies. Second, the influence of international capital within the national economy.” According to Stédile, “many effects are clear with the coup process, among them, placing the burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the working class, implementing a neoliberal model to save companies.”

The leader of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) fulfilled his agenda at the Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality (Sepromi) and the Governor's Office, being received by Secretary Fabya Reis and Governor Rui Costa. In these meetings, Stédile reinforced this scenario in which companies need to increase their rate of greed, with an increase in the exploitation of workers. “Furthermore, they need to appropriate natural resources and public resources, strengthening the alignment of the bourgeoisie with American companies. The coup's 'modus operandi' is the State itself. For this, it was necessary to have hegemony in parliament, the judiciary, and the media. Strengthening, for example, the process of criminalizing and demoralizing the Workers' Party (PT) with Lava Jato,” he points out.

Stédile believes that to reverse this situation, it is necessary to have a government that builds an emergency industrialization program, focused on the domestic market, and that, in addition, helps in the process of strengthening the production of healthy food, since Brazil has the land and people to guarantee this. “Our mission is to debate with the people. To bring people to the streets. Transforming ourselves into a social and political force, pulling the Brazilian people out of the crisis.”