2- This economic, commercial and political attack by the US on Brazil must be repudiated in the streets. We must protest against this imperialist movement that violates our national sovereignty and attacks our country, harming the working class and popular sectors. We reject Trump’s support for the Bolsonaro project and the 8J coup plot (similar to the 2021 January 6 United States Capitol attack, following the inauguration of Lula da Silva the week before, thousands Bolsonaro’s supporters attacked Brazil’s federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília, seeking to violently overthrow Lula and to spur military leaders to launch a “military intervention“).
3- The US plunders Brazil in various ways: by remitting profits to multinationals and, above all, by paying off the external and internal debt to the bankers. The looting also takes place via trade. We export mostly primary or semi-industrialised products, such as crude oil, semi-finished iron and steel, coffee, beef, cast iron, chemical wood pulp and aircraft. We mainly import engines and machinery, fuel oils, aircraft and natural gas. In 2024, the US had a surplus of $7 billion in goods and $28.6 billion in goods and services. It’s a parasitic relationship that makes us lose a lot and pay in dollars. Brazil could produce engines, machinery, fuel, aircraft and pharmaceutical products here, with its industrial park and its own resources, however the Brazilian bourgeoisie, a minor partner of imperialism and a parasite, keeps the country submissive and profits from it.
4- The Lula/Alckmin government summoned the representative of the US embassy for clarification. President Lula says he will respond through the ‘Brazilian Law of Economic Reciprocity’ and claims to defend national sovereignty. The big problem is that the Lula/Alckmin government, and previous PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores – Workers’ Party) governments, never had an independent policy of breaking with the multinationals, financial capital, foreign debt and the US. Now, it has invested in fruitless negotiations on tariffs with the White House. It has bet on a capitalist ‘multilateralism’, linked to imperialist powers like China and Russia, which has not worked. Russia and China have done nothing to defend Iran, which is part of the BRICS, from US bombers, and continue to negotiate with Trump, despite his critical speeches. Trump has already taxed us by 10%, but Lula and Haddad’s order was to ‘negotiate’ in order to maintain the broad front’s strategic project of governing with and for the Brazilian bourgeoisie and multinationals. There are no possible negotiations with the imperialist far right.
