Protesters hold antiimperialist demonstration in front of the Yankee Consulate
The International Antiimperialist League (LAI), in its speech, once again called on the people to join the popular struggle against imperialism, emphasizing the need to take this struggle to the streets.
A combative antiimperialist demonstration was held on March 3 in Rio de Janeiro, denouncing the ongoing imperialist aggression by the Yankees in Latin America and the Middle East, and praising the antiimperialist struggles underway around the world. The demonstration began at 5 p.m. in Largo da Carioca and continued in a march that closed streets until reaching the US Consulate General, where red flares were lit and the flags of the Great Satan, or the US, and the Little Satan, or “Israel,” were burned.
The demonstration was composed of antiimperialist organizations, student movements, unions, activists, and cultural collectives, who raised banners and chanted antiimperialist slogans. At the beginning of the demonstration, protesters gathered near the subway and used a loudspeaker to rally the crowd.
The International Antiimperialist League (LAI), in its speech, once again called on the people to join the popular struggle against imperialism, emphasizing the need to take this struggle to the streets. In addition, it raised high the banner of the Agrarian Revolution as the main antiimperialist struggle in the country, and paid tribute to Comrade Flecha, who was brutally executed on the morning of January 23 in an operation by the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) of the Mato Grosso Military Police in cooperation with the repressive forces of Rondônia. A month earlier, LAI had already organized a large demonstration in solidarity with Venezuela in the capital of Rio de Janeiro.
A representative of the Renato Nathan Cultural Collective (CORENA) pointed out that imperialism “can no longer tame the world in the same way as before… now it has to make increasingly cruel attacks […] And in doing so, it creates the conditions for its own downfall […] these attacks actually fuel national resistance, unification around national resistance.”
In his speech, he praised the antiimperialist resistance movements that are rising in the Middle East and Brazil, and expressed his support for student Mateus Galdino, who was arrested at a demonstration in solidarity with Venezuela and won his freedom after widespread popular mobilization.
Activists march to the Yankee Consulate
Throughout the demonstration, the Special Patrol and Crowd Control Battalion (RECOM) was present with the aim of intimidating protesters, controlling the event, and repressing the antiimperialist sentiments of the most combative participants. According to orders from the protest leaders, it would have ended at Largo da Carioca, without reaching its final goal of arriving at the US Consulate General, frustrating the antiimperialist youth eager to fight. The International Antiimperialist League (LAI), realizing the retreating attitude, took over the leadership of the protest and led the activists in a combative march, blocking the streets until they reached the Yankee Consulate.
Source information: https://anovademocracia.com.br/rj-manifestantes-realizam-protesto-anti-imperialista-em-frente-ao-consulado-ianque/
