DEM VOLKE DIENEN

In the first round, the electoral sham had already failed. More than 40 million people did not attend to the elections or voted null or blank, which equals 29.1% of the people who are able to vote.  This number is very meaningful, given that in the last election in 2014 the boycott was of approximately 38 million, which A Nova Democracia has characterized as “the biggest boycott to the electoral sham”. The correct number is certainly even bigger, because the people who had their voter title cancelled due to not participating and did not regularize this situation due to not caring or rejection are not counted by the Electoral Justice.

[with information from A Nova Democracia website]

The most voted candidate had actually 33,4% of the total of voters, which means 49 million people from a pool of 147 million, almost as many as the ones who boycotted, and it also means that 100 million did not support the fist placed candidate.

Also the boycott to the electoral sham was expressed in the election for governor of the states.
In Rio de Janeiro approximately 4.7 million people boycotted the electoral sham, 42% of the total, and the one in the first place had 25%, which means he did not manage to overcome the rejection to the elections.

Also in Minas Gerais the election was a failure, approximately 6 million people, 42.8% and the one in first place had 26%, approximately 4 million people. Again the rejection won.
In Rondonia the first place had not even 20.5% of the votes and the rejection was 38% of the voters. 409.400 people from 1.1 million voters.

In Teresópolis, a city in Rio de Janeiro state, there was also election for mayor. The result was a complete failure, more than 61600 (56.6%) of the voters did not vote and the first place had 23.500 (18.6%) of the votes from a total of 129.900 people able to vote.

These data were removed from the official website of the Electoral Justice.

PEOPLE ACTIVELY BOYCOTT THE ELECTORAL SHAM

Despite the numbers that clearly express the bankruptcy of the fake democracy (the dictatorship of the big bourgeoisie and landlords who serve imperialism), part of the people actively boycott the electoral sham and made actions.

In Mato Grosso state, indigenous peoples from a village in Brasnorte, expelled the Army soldiers with arrows. The goal of them was to prevent the people to access the electronic ballots inside the place, as part of the rejection to the fake democracy. The soldiers were deployed to enter the village.
In São José dos Pinhais city, in Paraná state, apparently two people attacked the Electoral Forum of the city with Molotov cocktail, they were using hoods for not being identified by the repression. Hundreds of electronic ballots.

In Morro da Fumaça city, south of Santa Catarina, a 25 year-old worker destroyed an electronic ballot with a sledgehammer during the voting. He entered the room and made the action. He was captured by the Military Police and could not speak the reason of the action, but it is deductible that was part of the popular rage with the fake democracy.

In Campinas city, countryside of São Paulo state, two electronic ballots were sabotaged before the beginning of the votes. People stealthy entered in a school, broke in a room and cut the power cables of the ballots.

“This historical boycott in the first round is a hard blow thrown against the fake democracy and shows that the people´s masses urge for a new society and a new system, which will emerge from the people´s struggle and other means, and also impulses the crisis in the core of the ruling classes.” States the article.

We forward a song that was produced by different rappers, including Ameaça Vermelha (Red Threat), in the occasion of the electoral sham that is taking place in Brazil this moment.

 

We publish images of different actions that are taking place in the whole country against the electoral sham that will take place next sunday, October 8.

The situation in Latin America is increasingly sharpening with the increase of the direct military presence of the Yankee, the crisis of legitimacy of the old states in Latin America and the bankruptcy of the opportunist "left wing", with the fall of the Workers Party from the government, the imminence of the reactionary preventive war against the people that is already being waged converge for this moment to be critical for the struggle of the people in Brazil.

- Activists from the People´s Revolutionary Student Movement (MEPR) denouncing the electoral sham, as well as the different candidates from the various fractions of the Single Party.

 

-Participation in a demonstration against the far-right with the banner saying "Neither Elections nor Military Intervention, Revolution Now!" in Rio de Janeiro.

-Participation in a demonstration against the far-right with the banner saying "Don´t vote, Struggle for Revolution!" in Foz do Iguaçu the South of the country.

 

 

- Agitation against the electoral sham and distribution of A Nova Democracia newspaper in the city of Campinas, in Sao Paulo state.

 

 

 

 

 

- Agitation against the electoral sham, with a banner saying "Neither Elections nor Military Intervention, Revolution Now!" and distribution of A Nova Democracia newspaper in Rio de Janeiro.

 

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- Paintings on varios places as documented in A Nova Democracia Website, in Rio de janeiro,

 

 

in Curitiba city, Paraná state

 

 

in Campinas city, Sao Paulo state

- in the North of Minas Gerais state

 

 

 

 

 

We forward the statement of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) denounce the arrests and pursuits of intellectuals in the whole country that took place this year. The reaction is fabricating accusations based on a supposed message supposedly held by Rona Wilson containing the name of intellectuals, including Varavara Rao, in a plan to assassinate the Prime Minister signed by the CPI(Maoist). And all the democratic people must be against the old Indian State for this arbitrary arresting and support the campaign to release them.

The Maoist party condemned the arrests of rights activists and called for a national agitation to fight against the arrests.

The Pune police have started arresting intellectuals from all over the country from 6th June 2018 in the name of Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case. Sudhir Dawle, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen and Mahesh Raut were arrested. In the second round of arrests on 28th August Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonzalves, Arun Ferriera, Gautam Navalakha and Sudha Bhardwaj were picked up from their houses implicating them too, in the above conspiracy case. The police also raided the houses of Prof. Anand Teltumbde (in Goa), Pror. K.Satyanarayana, Journalists Kranthi and Kurmanath (in Hydeabad) and Father Stan Swamy (in Ranch).

 

The Pune police and the Maharashtra Govemment have left the original perpetuators over violence (Shambhaji Bhide, whom Narendra Modi calls as his Guruji and Milind Egbote) in Bhima Koregaon on 01 January 2018, untouched and they are Free.

The police had started floating conspiracy theories through their pliant media, from June itself saying that they have recovered incriminating letters from the laptops of Rona Wilson and others and that all of them have participated in a conspiracy along with the Maoists to assassinate the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and wage war against the Indian state.

Many well-meaning intellectuals and even some of the retired police officials and Judges also exposed the concocted nature of the letters and analysed how they can only be fabricated letters. They exposed how in the "modus operandiʹ or our party, an underground party, there is no scope for the usage of any such letters/mails and more so the usage of original names for any military operations or logistic operations. Therefore the framing of some of the above intellectuals in connection with a concocted plot to kill Narendra Modi is one of the biggest frauds thrust upon the people of lndia. Attempts are made to silence the sane and dissent voices by killing people like Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh and by making attempt on the life of Omar Khalid or by arresting activists like GN Saibaba and others. Murugan, Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan and the present round of arrests and slapping UAPA [Unlawful Actions Prevention Act – our note] and sedition acts on them... In fact, this is the real conspiracy by the stale. Any critical observant of our movemenl will notice that it is our underground guerilla forces which are involved in military operations. There cannot be any role for activists like those who have been arrested.

All the intellectuals, right from Dr. Vinayak Sen and Sony Sori to Saibaba and Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj and others are democratic rights activists and revolutionary intellectuals who have dedicated their lives to defend the rights of the downtrodden- daliths, Adivasis. Minorities, Women, Workers, peasants- and their right to organise and agitate for their rights. it is this activism that the current fascist regime of Modi and shah wants to curb.

The fascist regime of Modi - Amith Shah-BJP/RSS is actually facing a serious crisis of credibility and economic, political and social crises. The poll promises of Modi of eradicating corruption, unemployment, doubling the income of farmers etc have fallen flat. Their favoritism, crony capitalism and the corruption involving Ambanis, Adanis, Modis, Mallyas eto stand exposed. Demonetisation, GST [Goods and Services Tax – our note] and other pro-imperialist policies have had devastating effect on the lndian economy and have resulted in the closure of small and medium scale industries and in huge unemployment. The attacks of Hindutva vigilante gangs on Daliths, Adivasis and women and progressive intellectuals like Dabholkar, Gauri Lankesh and others are giving rise to a new polarization and consolidation against these fascist forces.

in such a back ground the Modi-shah regime is resorting to incarceration and intimidation of democratic rights activists and revolutionary intellectuals -

- To prevent the emerging unity of Daliths, Minorities and the revolutionary movementas was being witnessed in the Bhima Koregaon program and the call "Nayee peeshvaayi - Nahee chalegi"

- To divert the attention of the people from the real issues of crony capitalism, corruption, unemployment, sky rocketing fuel and other commoditiesʹ prices by creating the bogey of urban naxallsm apart from pseudo patriotism, Pakisthan bashing etc,

- To further intensify the Green hunt operation launched by the Congress regime and wants to resort to aerial bombings, further deployment of military and para military forces in Dandakaranya, Jharkhand and Odisha. The massacres and cruel repression on the Adivasis is going to intensify many fold.The state wants to preempt any solidarity movement out side these areas. The arrested activists are among those who are in the forefront of exposing the cruel repression and the onslaught.

- By raising the bogey of urban naxalism and branding every peoplesʹ movement against corporate forces, anti-people policies of the government as being naxal inspired and backed that state wants to suppress every movement. We have witnessed this in Thuthikudi struggle, Pathal gadi movement etc in recent times. The arrest of the activists is a warning to all the leading elements of such movements.

The desperation of the state is completely evident in the arrest and harassment of even octogenarians like Father Stan swamy and Varavararao to achieve the above objectives.

There is an increasing need to fight the fascist forces by one and all. we congratulate all those democratic forces and exposing the nefarious activities of the state and especally of the Modi-Shah-RSS trio.

We call upon all the democratic and revolutionary forces and then workers, peasents, Dalits, Adivasis, Minorities and women to join togeather and fight back and defeat these Brahminical Hindutva fascist forces.

 

Abhay,
Spokesperson,
Central Committee - CPI (Maoist)

In the end of August, activists of C.A.R.A and the Young Revolutionaries attacked the local of the fascists of the so-called "Bastion Social" in French Clermont Ferrand (DVD report). The local was breached, material taken, furniture trashed and the local was flooded. Now, activists of C.A.R.A. and the Young Revolutionaries once again forced entrance into the local in the night from the 2nd to the 3rd of October and published a Video of this attack.

We forward the action that took place in Stockolm as part of the campaign of support to the 23 in Brazil. Also published in Nuevo Peru.

 

The 3 October, a demonstration was held outside of the Brazilian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. There were two banners with the slogans "Igor Mendes, son of the Brazilian people, fighter of the international proletariat, is not alone!" (in Portuguese) as well as "Stop the political persecution in Brazil!"  while leaflets explaining the situation of the 23 activists in Brazil were handed out and a speech was held. Several people took leaflets and some of the staff from the embassy went out to see what the demonstration was about.

We share this picture which was made in Rojava in solidarity with the 23 convicted activists and Igor Mendes:

With information of an article published in A Nova Democracia Website, in the context of the important mobilization that took place the last weekend in many places of the country and abroad regarding the elections that will take place on October 7, we transmit a report of the demonstration in Rio de Janeiro and the action of the red block.

Dozens of thousands people gathered in Cinelândia square, in the centre of Rio de Janeiro city, in a demonstration against the far-rightist ideas that are being broadcast mainly for the presidential electoral propaganda of Jair Bolsonaro.