Brasilia, Brasil.- The end of the hunger strike for the freedom of Lula that was held by seven popular movement activists for 26 days opens a new stage of struggle in Brazil, the Small Farmers Movement said.
The act that contains this hunger strike does not represent the end of this stage, on the contrary, it is a new phase that begins, indicated the organization, one of the participants in the measure of strength, when quoting Jaime Amorim, leader of the Landless Workers Movement.
Throughout these 26 days we managed to make a great debate with Brazilian society, denounce the return of hunger to the country, show the world the consequences of the coup, the increase in violence, the abandonment of the poorest by the State and the role that the Judiciary exercised for that to happen, he said.
According to the assessment of Amorim, one of the seven strikers, the extreme act completed yesterday fulfilled its objectives and an important role, because it contributed ‘to mobilize and organize the people’ and to place on the agenda new perspectives for this country.
We left the strike for another level of the struggle for the freedom of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and we look forward to seeing the People’s Congress and the consolidation of the Popular Brazil Front as an instrument of political and social development for all our people, he claimed.
In a manifesto issued at the end of the fast, the militants of popular movements of the countryside and the city recalled that with this extreme measure they fought for popular sovereignty, for the control of strategic goods such as oil and energy, and for the right of the people to participate in power and decide the directions of the country.
When evaluating the results of the extreme act, but practiced ‘consciously and inspired by active revolutionary resistance,’ they considered that it fulfilled the objectives set since the beginning of it, on July 31.