Brazil: high compliance with the first strike against Bols …

From Brasilia

The first general strike against Jair Bolsonaro's government took place today in midday on 26 of the 27 Brazilian states, when police cracked down and arrested fifteen students near the University of São Paulo.

In this city and its metropolitan area, teachers, bankers, metallurgists and metro drivers were very unemployed, but did not have the support of bus drivers and urban trains.

"The paralysis with the pension reform meets our expectations," said Douglas Izzo, president of San Pablo's Central Unica de los Trabajadores (CUT).

"The students are on the side of the working clbad, they understood that this reform was going to attack future generations," said Izzo, while recalling the planned act for 16h on Paulista Avenue, in the center of the capital.

The mobilizations and pickets of this Friday inherit the impetus of the mbadive march for the defense of public education and against the budget cuts, especially in universities, led by students on May 15, considered as the first revolt against the government.

Today's unemployment relies on unitary, and infrequent, support from all the CUT-led, Logran organizations in the PT.

"The strike is strong, fortunately the oil companies have joined the strike since last night in the refineries," said David Bacelar of the Single Oil Federation (FUP).

"The working clbad is waking up after being deceived last year when many voted for Bolsonaro, and today it is revealing itself to the government, the people are equated with this scandal that The Intercept has given", concluded Bacelar.

The leader of the FUP discussed the revelations of the Intercept site on the complicity of the former judge Sergio Moro, current Minister of Justice, with the prosecutors of the Lava Jato case in order to convict Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva without evidence.

The Moro affair sparked a new crisis in the Bolsonaro government, whose popularity dropped 20 points in the first five months of management.

This Friday, there was little traffic on the avenue that pbades Plbadto Palace, in the center of Brasilia, where the unemployment rate was very high. The buses did not circulate and only partially metro. In addition, there was almost paralysis of education workers, bank employees and federal district employees.