(en) Brazil, Aurora Obreira #27 - Neoliberalism Real Plan after 19 years (pt)

Designed from the same standard programs stabilization and adjustment used in Latin 
America inspired neoliberalism (see on liberalism) in the 80s. ---- Creatively designed 
and innovations such as the indexation of economy by URV (Real Value Unit), stabilization 
was based on the relationship between accelerated increase of imports and absorption of 
external resources. The base currency (Anchor) was the lynchpin of the policy and remains 
today associated with one monetary policy of high interest rates. Exalted and maintained 
untouchable even by managements opposition PSDB Fernando Henry (two governments of former 
trade unionist Luis Ignacio da Silva, aka Lula and Dilma Russef that is current, all PT), 
the speeches of all administrations post-Real are fighting inflation, distribution of 
income and productive modernization of the country, while reducing the severity of 
mismatches large scale economic and social costs that continue earnings in these two decades.

The stabilization strategy used was based on the agenda
proposed the so called Washington consensus, namely
Full trade liberalization, deregulation general
economy, unrestricted recognition patent, privatization,
State minimum disarming the support mechanism
growth and economic regulation, easing rights
Labor always oriented to establish the primacy
absolute market. This process was accompanied by the advance
ideological inevitability of "reform", "modernization" and
"Globalization", parts of a unified thinking around
of market rationality.

The government options, remaining within the logic
economic management inaugurated by Fernando Collor de Mello,
introduction subaltern Brazil international instability
a milestone end the cycle of stagnation considered with
high rates of inflation, a currency crisis under constant
pressure of external indebtedness and depletion model
development inspired by import substitution. On
political panorama was the end of the long transition from
military to pseudo-democratic regime, stuffed
corruption scandals, the weakening of the state and rigging
for all the measures so far. While if
have great social movements that are systematically
demobilized or coopted by managements, removing all critical
radical emancipatory proposals that would lead to more than
necessary in this maelstrom of power and maintenance of
social inequalities, despite all the billions spent on
assistencialismos palliative and advertisements exaggerated the supposed
efficiency of administrations in power.

Past 19 years, is consolidated neoliberalism, which
many pointed to late and maintained, ironically, by
initiatives that openly criticized the plan and its creators. Part
the institutional left not only surrendered to the plan, but as
adapted and used, as well as all the techniques and strategies
control corruption inherent in the model, giving a lesson
immorality in every society. The institutional left, partisan
become the same both attacked: an image equal to the right
both opposed.

The changes incorporated by the neoliberal agenda after 19 years
followed the international market and the impact that the model
technology has become a key trend in savings
contemporary. Computing, automation biotechnology,
digital communication, arising from new materials and new ways of
management of production systems redesign relations between countries
and nations, but also the social relations of production. The economy
heads to a speed and agility of communication in a society
the predominance of financial speculation. Increasing
productivity is extraordinary, the scales of production reach
new horizons and generate large market areas
(Macromercados), redefined the global competition that is now
shaken by financial instability, the work of this interference
speculative financial relations, as occurred in the bubble
speculative housing market in the USA and as in
Europe and a possible fragmentation of the European Common Market.
The concept of globalization is deepening the process
internationalization, concentration and centralization of capital is
maintained. Financial flows materialize the "globalization of
capital "through the technological innovations that make markets
financial close not even a second. Companies
and transnational oligopoly and very advanced economy
globalized, accelerated mergers and acquisitions of companies
locations.

The composition influenced so large markets
negative workers organization, fragmented,
destabilizing, more flexible and relocating precariously to
hand labor, industrial plants can be installed where
the weight of organizational workers is smaller or nonexistent.
Factories and manufacturing sectors are closed desempregando
thousands of workers in a region, and a short time are
open in places where there are more advantages for profitable
venture. The world of work is hard hit
therefore by these innovations and the neoliberal adjustment policies.
Restructuring of promoted posts in this model destroys
work, streamlining and further degrades contracts
work and plays a growing share of workers in
informal economy and poor labor relations.
Recently, it was reported that over 50 million people do not
use the financial system, and because most of these do not have
job stability as to maintain a checking account and
your monthly costs.

Globalization continues to restrict the room for maneuver
National States, even with concussions occurred in 6
years. The European Community has the postulates
classic IMF with its cost containment measures, which
directly impact social demands, as we see occur
Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and others.

After nearly two decades, the countries of Latin America and
Brazil, are still affected by this process. In Brazil, the managements
beautified the "small wave" of the world crisis came here,
through clientelistic practices that disguised welfare
the race to the bottom that the maintenance of the Real Plan caused.
Million Brazilians were dismissed to be rehired
with wages below what they earned; factories were closed in
traditional industrial regions, to be erected in regions
with greater fiscal and labor-cheaper labor. In that
sense, many entrepreneurs are inspiring in the model
Chinese, offering a production with great technological appeal
coupled with a workforce highly skilled but
extremely cheap, thanks to a totalitarian regime that ensures
absolute control of the population.

International crisis, BRICS (block formed by countries
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, so-called "emerging")
has any influence ensured mainly by having
makeup positively the social miseries of their societies,
advertisements as massive as being "successful" in
times of crises. With the same proposals that gave strength to the
Real Plan, the negative impacts on society are beginning to
appears, the inflation rate was so far on
"Control" is coming back, increase market prices. And
recently even assuming the direction of the WTO (see text
on), the impacts will remain the same these 19 years:
favoring the speculative sectors and entrepreneurs,
fadando most people paid bills Adventures
social, political and economic initiatives that have committed
exclusively with their dominant partners worldwide.
It kept monetary policy based on maintaining interest
high, stimulates the uptake of volatile speculative capital and sterile
contributes nothing constructive to implement that would generate
infrastructure and jobs. It is illusory to see investments Cup
and the Olympics as steps in this direction, since they are
mainly to meet the business sectors and much
bit reversed population, unlike the advertising
rouged us believe. More severe are those facilities that
cater to big business and push the initiative
small and medium size into the abyss of default and bankruptcy.
The high interest rates undermine economic growth,
impairing the ability of tax collection, and helps
deteriorating public finances.

Continues in the next issue!