Anti-imperialist declaration distributed at COP 30 in Belém by the following organizations: Brazil: Emancipation of Labor Group; General Abreu e Lima Anti-imperialist Committee; East Timor: Maubere Resurrection Front – FRM; Hope Committee; National Agro-Ecological Rehabilitation Movement; Rosas Mean Movement; Maubere Socialist Youth.
COP30 is taking place amidst a boycott and denialist opposition from the world’s biggest polluter, the USA. Furthermore, Trump is threatening a new military intervention in Latin America.
This war operation has already begun. Nearly a hundred fishermen were murdered, summarily executed and accused without evidence of being drug traffickers and terrorists. Killed against all rules of international law.
Lula, president of Brazil, the largest, richest, and most populous Latin American country, should have adopted a sovereign stance at CELAC and COP30. Lula should have called for continental unity against these crimes and these new threats. Speeches that don’t match actions are not enough.
But, since there is no resistance of sufficient magnitude, Trump continues to escalate, now positioning the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Ford, in military formation in the Caribbean in a clear campaign of war against our continent.
Those who defend nature, life, and the Amazon cannot look the other way in the face of this threat. The planet’s main enemy must be defeated in order to save it. The capitalist mode of production is the fundamental cause of socio-environmental injustices. Destroying it and building a socialist society is the only way to overcome the risk that all forms of life and the planet face.
The Emancipation of Labor Group believes that defending the Amazon means urgently and immediately calling for the unity of peoples oppressed for centuries against Trump, capitalism, and the imperialist system. It is necessary to explicitly defend Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba, which are threatened and sanctioned. Likewise, it is necessary to combat Zionism, which is carrying out ecocide in Gaza.
The oil, rare earth minerals, fauna, flora, soil, and subsoil belong to the people of the region, against the pirates and invaders of all time.
We must unite in defense of national, popular, and state sovereignty over our natural resources, which should be exploited in a community-based and cooperative manner with the Brazilian government, serving development and preservation under the control of the working and indigenous population and the proletariat. International partnerships with China, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela are necessary. We must guarantee the sharing of technology for the national development of refineries and processing without harming nature or indigenous communities.
No to false, hypocritical, imperialist, and capitalist sustainability. For planned social and state control of all natural resources. First and foremost must be development with social control of living conditions, guaranteeing the right to land for those who work or live on it, and fighting against capital and its predatory mode of production. Without this, the preservation of the Amazon, for example, is merely preservation for imperialism to exploit the Amazon.
Finally, and geostrategically related to the climate issue, there is the international struggle of oppressed countries allied with the Chinese workers’ state for energy transition, reinforcing the commitment to restricting the burning of fossil fuels. This dispute is part of the struggle to bury the decadent imperialist system and fight for socialism across the planet.
