(en) Brazil, Uni?o Popular Anarquista (UNIPA) - State v. Workers (pt)

Preventive dozens of activists, invasion of residences and censorship arrests were the 
methods used to prevent the just protest of the people. Pictured: Some of the prisoners on 
12/07, one day before the final of the FIFA World Cup. ---- Democracy "formal" in Brazil 
is restricted to the ruling classes and small sections of workers. We can say that we live 
in a multi-party dictatorship. Once the mechanisms of control, repression and 
representation are those determined by the dominant class at the end of corporate-military 
dictatorship. The mass of workers is oppressed by legal expedients - illegal - and 
military repression and control. The advancement of militarization and criminalization of 
struggles continued in the PT government. This fact can be seen in both the increased 
number of police officers, military invasions of favelas and suburbs, the increase in the 
prison population as legalization and criminalization of union struggles that the PT-CUT 
can not control.

First the government tried to create a specific law to punish protesters during the 
canopy, considering the requests of FIFA. Mobilizing the streets prevented. The military 
police, at the behest of the governors and secretaries of security, indiscriminate and 
random arrests made with absurd accusations. The homeless, Rafael Braga, one year is 
arrested for possession of Pine Sol Widespread repression to attack with lethal rubber 
bullets and thousands of tear gas and tear gas effect were the rule of the demonstrations.

Repressive apparatus mobilized to the final of the FIFA World Cup, about 20,000 officers. 
(Photo: Repression in Rio de Janeiro, 13/07)

Then the state began to trigger own national security law, as in the case of Curitiba. 
Also started to monitor and detain participants of demonstrations with collecting material 
such as leaflets and posters, and equipment such as computer HD. Now the detainees are 
being photographed at events and "blacklisted" by an expedient called physical records 
used to make a register of detainees in demonstrations. Since last year President Dilma 
Rousseff (PT-PMDB) has ordered the monitoring of social networks by the Army. In RS 
Libertarian Athenaeum was raided by police at the behest of the government Genro (PT) who 
confiscated materials and stole the record of site users. At the end of 2013 the federal 
government issued Normative No. 2.461/MD. This ordinance appointing the popular and social 
movements as opposing force and instructed the military to prevent protests Cup.

Another device used to prevent the workers' struggle was the legalization and 
criminalization of struggles. Entrepreneurs, governments and judges came together to fight 
the workers. Triggered strikes, the first expedient was to declare it illegal to send 
suspend and cut the point of those who remained on strike. Another case was the 
resignation of Justice with support from the bosses. As in the case of subway. The State 
is controlled by which party he is, continues to criminalize resistance. Another measure 
taken by the army was the siege and intimidation of demonstrators, as happened in S?o 
Paulo, Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte.

Since June last year the military has complete freedom of their commands for repression. 
Indiscriminate detentions, arrests, beatings, abuses of authority are praised by the 
secretaries of security and the defense minister. It is known to police procedure in 
Brazil keep the detainee in the car traversing city streets. In the case of demonstrators 
and journalists this is an attempt to put fear before taking the police. For young, black, 
slums and suburbs sequestration takes murder, as in the case of Mason Amarildo and 
adolescent Mateus Alves, 14. From north to south the order is determined at any cost those 
who dare to fight and resist the arbitrariness of the state. The security policy is to put 
fear and prevent outbreaks.

FREEDOM TO POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW!

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!