A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: 23 Rio militants are acquitted! Long live the popular struggle! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The demonstrations that took to the streets in 2013 and 2014 in Brazil 
were marked by several demonstrations of direct action and popular 
combativeness - which cannot be analyzed in a low-level and dishonest 
way. It was one of the moments in which popular agendas - 
transportation, combating mega-events, demands for investments in health 
and education, resistance against removals and evictions, highlighted 
the widespread dissatisfaction of the oppressed classes in Brazil. As 
the fight progressed, state repression reached several Brazilian regions 
and many protesters were arrested and prosecuted. The emblematic case of 
Rafael Braga, a black recyclable material collector arrested for 
"carrying" a bottle of disinfectant, exposed the military police's 
policy of extreme violence, repression and racism during the period. 
Officially, more than 837 people were injured by police repression (of 
which 117 were journalists) and 16 people were killed during the protests.

As if all the repression suffered on the streets was not enough, we had 
cases of invasion of political spaces - as occurred in Rio Grande do 
Sul, with the entry of the civil police into the headquarters of the 
Anarchist Federation of Rio Grande do Sul (FAG) -, the persecution and 
surveillance against militants, pressure psychological attacks against 
relatives of militants, among other means. In the field of legality, the 
onslaught promoted for ten years by the state of Rio de Janeiro, when 
seeking to condemn, through the National Security Law, 23 militants who 
were involved in the struggles of the period. The tightening of state 
repression and persecution during the June Days of 2013 removed sectors 
of the left and popular movements from the streets, creating a political 
vacuum that opened up space for the action of conservative 
organizations, which repudiated popular demands.

This Tuesday, the 19th, the last trial regarding the Rio case took 
place. The OSL was among the organizations present at the event in front 
of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice, where the 23 militants were 
finally acquitted of the charges brought about by the repression of the 
demonstrations in June 2013. All popular and revolutionary militancy 
must never absent from class struggle and solidarity with those 
persecuted by the capitalist-statist system.

Long live the popular and combative struggle of 2013! May greater 
combativeness and organization drive new struggles and new achievements!

OSL March 20, 2024

https://socialismolibertario.net/2024/03/20/23-militantes-do-rio-sao-inocentados-viva-a-luta-popular/
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