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The possibility of adopting the Yuan and other currencies to back trade and the flow of investments between the two countries, a standard that may be extended to the entire Brics, adds to the intention, already announced by Brazil, of adopting an accounting currency for operations within Mercosur, points to the loss of strength of the dollar and, consequently, of the power of imperialism in the region.
Moreover, the visit of Russian foreign minister Serguei Lavrov to Brazil strengthens the Brazilian position of neutrality in the face of the conflict in Ukraine, emphasizing that Brazil had already refused to supply ammunition and military equipment to NATO, contrary to a direct request from the USA. The Brazilian government had already announced this position of neutrality, reinforced during the visit to China. These movements signal an international stance of non-alignment by Brazil, reinforcing this international trend.
There is, however, no sign of a political or economic break with the United States – one of the first countries that Lula visited. Brazil’s rapprochement with China is complex, as it brings benefits to sectors of the Brazilian bourgeoisie – such as export agribusiness – and to investments by private Chinese companies in Brazil, but we understand that the relations that China has been establishing with many countries in the world, with alliances such as the Brics, instruments such as the Economic Belt Initiative, the New Silk Road and the recent Initiative for Modernization, even though they do not have a socialist content, contribute to the construction of a non-aligned international field and a multipolar world, with the decline in the weight of the United States on the international scene, creating a mediation that favors workers in the class struggle.
The PCB is opposed to the war in Ukraine, as the population in general suffers the most from wars, but recognizes that this war has its origins in the expansionist action of the United States via NATO as a way of encircling Russia and imposing its military presence and its influence in Europe, and in the actions of internal Nazi forces in Ukraine, mainly in the Donbass region, where Russian populations predominate.
In addition to this action, the US has been seeking new military alliances and trying to increase tension in different parts of the world, such as in the China Sea. At the same time, the extreme right has been reorganizing internationally, as can be seen from the recent meeting in Madrid, which followed similar meetings in Brazil and Peru. The same movement of organization occurs with the traditional right.
For the PCB, at the same time that communists must intensify actions to denounce and combat imperialism, it is essential to strengthen actions to organize the anti-capitalist struggle, understanding that capitalism is the root of imperialism, in all the ways it presents itself, and that only with the struggle of the working class and its victory over capital, in the perspective of the revolutionary construction of Socialism, a new era of social justice and human emancipation will begin.
