The police are the state. The role of the police is to shoot, kill, jail, or otherwise neutralize the working class for the capitalists. The Marxist term for the police is the state, the armed bodies of men.
The fact that Lula was defeated in the first round by this complete nutjob shows the disastrous consequence of his betrayals.
The left needs to learn lessons from this, not try to sugarcoat the result.
@MHinge62289@SpartacistICL No, it's by commiting to principled united work with the intention of productively clarifying eachothers politics. Sectarianism is when you reject other orgs for having different views period, which is a mistake we won't commit again.
If trotskyists cannot seriously lead the black struggle they would be marginalized by various forms of opportunisms in the movement. Here is ICL's concrete take on today's black question: https://t.co/g8x7fbRiw3
Maybe you should pipe down considering you have no problem working with a party connected to real child abusers like Epstein and soaked head to toe in the blood of children killed at the hands of US imperialism