Anarkismo.net: Brazilian reality after complaining of 2013 by Bruno Lima Rocha and Julia Klein (ca, pt)

Exists today in Brazil questioning about Brazilian democracy, a "midlife crisis" of 
society. Our democracy provides, in theory, equal rights and ison?micas conditions 
(equality of citizens before the law) to all. Therefore, the logic of alternation in power 
would be accompanied by a sales volume of desirable leadership in order to oxygenate the 
representatives and agents, as well as make an effort to deconstruct the legitimacy of 
party oligarchies. Particularly, do not consider it inevitable that political elites to 
control with an iron fist to their directories. ---- To achieve some of the income 
distribution, albeit timidly, the direction of the Workers Party (PT) considered it 
necessary to ally with the oligarchy. This created a vacuum of representation and ten 
years of political paralysis in the sense of social pressure. Today, we live better and 
more disorganized. When the PT began to resemble their former adversaries, there was - and 
still is-a major disappointment in the Brazilian population. This may be one of the causes 
of explosions in 2013, added two absurdities: maintaining the perception that the World 
Cup would be wrong priorities and, not least, the composition of the key posts of Congress 
under control two oligarchs dubious reputation. But 2013 may be seen as the opening of a 
new political momentum and a sign that something was moving in the new Brazilian society.

In 2013 demonstrations we saw that most of the events we were featuring college students, 
which is not uncommon in Latin America. The novelty is the mass of these protests and 
visibility of sectors hitherto disorganized and confused in the middle of the urban 
working population. Currently living in Brazil involves a double or triple shift work and 
study, to which the metropolitan chaos with traffic jams and public transport shoddy adds. 
Who lives in the country suffers from the pressure-permanent education with an emphasis on 
higher education qualification by the labor market, and at the same time, we are a 
generation between 18 and 25 who lives connected by Internet. With the fragmentation of 
the subaltern classes, these people-night students, apprentices, trainees, technicians are 
millions, underpaid and with a level of information and ways to connect with the forms of 
protest in quite high worldwide. However, it is important to note that the protests in 
Brazil had two major factors: one, the high value of bus tickets and the perception that 
the State at three levels of government, operates as a guarantee of profits for capital, 
even if it is a particular public service; the other factor is the repudiation of the 
organization of the World Cup against the non-football show or popular culture, but 
against this way of doing shady business with public money and wills imposed by FIFA, 
passing on laws. As football is the universe where most Brazilians are identify and 
understand the volume of critical information extrapolated the action of media propaganda 
and silence of the great vehicles for the mass events. This time it was not possible to 
silence the millions of Brazilians in the streets.

The living conditions of Brazilian

In the past 10 years, the level of life of Brazilians has changed a lot. Together, we live 
better. Today, the official rates of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics 
(IBGE) show that we have five classes, whose measurement is given by the factor income and 
income. There is a sociological concept of social class, rather it is mercadol?gico, 
linked to the use and possession of property. They also realized that improving living 
conditions-from misery to poverty with some dignity, and patterns of poverty to lower 
middle class (home, car, college degree, credit card, travel vacation) - did not imply an 
improvement of public services. The middle class has stabilized health plan pays private 
school and has houses with private security or housekeeping. It is doubly taxed and not go 
to the upper class be taxed or lose profit margins or have taxed their immense fortunes. 
But still at the base of the social pyramid, we need more than two decades to have a less 
unjust country and at least decent material conditions for all.

Among the biggest challenges (social, political and economic) that Brazil has to face, 
include:

- Another way to state funding, our public finances discharge of ballast to the 
refinancing of the public debt, based on the growth of basic interest rates. Besides that 
we need domestic savings and a better distribution of taxes, where the three levels 
(federal, state and municipal) have a distribution of equivalent taxes;

- An immediate review of the refinancing of the debt of the states and municipalities for 
the Union, and the federal debt to pay with other parameters. Today, this shift nearly 
half of the federal funds is eaten, and therefore our average ability to direct state 
investment is 18%, whereas in most of the BRIC countries is 25%;

- A policy reform in which the voter may submit bills, you have the possibility of 
collecting signatures to call a referendum, where the private funding of political 
campaigns is prohibited. We can make progress in e-democracy and testing of direct 
participation;

- Works endless basic sanitation and ensure compliance with the budget allocated by the 
1988 Constitution, health and education;

- A regulatory framework for the media, which divide the spectrum into three locations: 
the public media; state media and private media; complete the land reform and the 
immediate recognition of Indian reservations and lands Quilombo;

- Socially, we have much to learn, but highlight two fundamental problems: the improvement 
of functional illiteracy and revise history. We have to talk about the legacy of 
colonialism cursed, since Brazil was built from genocide and slavery.

The protests of 2013 and the presidential elections

The 2013 protests were not directed exclusively against President Dilma much less against 
lulista heritage. Lula remains the most popular leader in the country's history, and it is 
very pleasing to the ruling class as it promotes a pact of sorts where walking upstairs or 
lose privileges or skateboarding down sitting still or unassisted. The challenge will be 
overcoming reelection in second round against the candidacy of Eduardo Campos and Marina 
Silva (PSDB - Party RED without registration). These candidates come from within the 
government and do not have the brand management of Fernando Henrique Cardoso 
(privatization and unemployment, despite the economic stability). So the pressure of the 
media listed by the specter of inflation. Fighting inflation is a trauma of Brazilian 
society and its name can promote grip and compress real wages for the bankers and 
speculators economy. Another problem is that complains performing the World Cup is a work 
of "Lula was" fighting and conducting this event ends up being assigned to a combat Dilma 
government. The stage is open, although it remains the favorite Dilma reelection.

This year will not be quiet for the country, although we may not have the mass protests of 
2013 If we had more deaths throughout the year, which is always likely in terms of 
Brazil-and police repression, can go through a national commotion. The 2014 is already 
hot, both in terms of corruption allegations highest levels of government - which is 
trivial to us by the death of a cameraman complaining in Rio in February 2014; With the 
intensification of popular revolt in Rio against the policy of "pacification" in slums 
without due respect for the civil rights of the people of the hills. Until the end of the 
World Cup, Brazil yet to enter into election campaign in full and always have the 
possibility of intensification of popular struggle.