International Declaration of the Partido Obrero (Worker Party- Argentina) – Partido de los Trabajadores (Workers’ Party -Uruguay) – DIP (Workers' Revolutionary Party, Turkey) – EEK (Workers' Revolutionary Party – Greece)

On Wednesday morning, General Vilas Boa, commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Army, ordered the Superior Court of Justice to imprison former President Lula, under the pretext of eradicating "impunity." It is the culmination of a wave of pronouncements of retired military with the same demand. It takes place when the army has taken over the militarization of Rio de Janeiro. This clear coup pose took place before the evidence that the High Court was divided about imprisoning Lula immediately or allowing him to go free at the last appeal of a ruling which sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The division of the Court, which finally voted 6 to 5, against Lula, exposes the political crisis that has unleashed the execution of the sentence, which has the objective of preventing the concurrence of Lula to the presidential elections next October.

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In a country ruled by corrupt, from President Temer and Congress to the last of the governors, the immediate imprisonment of Lula, to veto his candidacy, by military demand, constitutes a complete coup d'etat. The fascistizing bands have taken to the streets with violence, to support the military coup. The coupist extortion to the Court and the implicit threat of repressing all popular protests against imprisonment, turns the fraudulent political regime installed in Brazil into a military protectorate.

All this makes it clear that the so-called "parliamentary coup" or "institutional coup" that took place in June 2016 was a military coup with the complicity of all the institutions of the Brazilian State and the support of the "international community", that is, the US imperialism, the EU and the Latin American 'democracies'.

We call for a continental mobilization against the new coup in Brazil, regardless of the fact that Lula and the PT governments are responsible for the corruption of the 'petrolao', the 'mensalao' and the huge deals of Odebrecht, Andrade Gutierrez, Correia Camargo, Eike Batista and all the Brazilian and international bourgeoisie. The corrupt Temer and his party have co-governed with the PT for 13 years, without interruption. The PT did not call for popular mobilization to defeat the destitution of Dilma Roussef.

The military coup in Brazil occurs at the same moment that Trump militarizes the border with Mexico and prepares an oil embargo against Venezuela, in order to make viable a military coup or a foreign intervention. The world capitalist crisis and the economic and military wars, undermine Latin American political regimes and severely threaten the working masses. The politics of the Lula, the K(irchnerists), the Correa and the Chávez-Maduro is directly responsible for the rise of the right and the coup.

We call to fight the coup, the right and imperialism, not in defense of a return of the bosses’ 'nac & pop' regimes, which are responsible for this setback, but to promote a revolutionary exit for workers and Socialist Unity of Latin America.

Partido Obrero (Worker Party -Argentina) – Partido de los Trabajadores (Workers’ Party- Uruguay) – DIP (Workers' Revolutionary Party, Turkey) – EEK (Workers' Revolutionary Party – Greece)