WORLD WORLDWIDE BRAZIL News Journal Update - (en) Brazil, OSL: Transport is not merchandise! Zero Rate Now! - Libertarian Socialist Organization - National Note 07/24 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Another year begins, and with it came increases in public transport
fares in several regions of the country. With these increases, millions
of people will be harmed, especially the most precarious working class.
---- Subway and train tickets serving the population of Greater São
Paulo became more expensive (from R$4.50 to R$5) and intercity buses in
SP (+13.6% on average), in addition to municipal buses in Belo Horizonte
(R$ 4.50 to R$ 5.25) and intercity lines in Greater BH (increase of
7.15%). Other cities also took advantage of the end-of-year festivities
to impose an adjustment on the population: in Boa Vista (RR), municipal
buses went from R$5.00 to R$5.50; in Joinville (SC), tickets increased
by R$0.25, reaching R$5.50 for advance tickets and R$5.75 for boarding
tickets; in Londrina, the increase was R$0.95, from R$4.80 to R$5.75;
and in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, an increase of 5.6% was
applied just 5 months after the last adjustment, which was 6%.

The governments' justifications, as always, are the increase in
companies' costs and the need to "adjust" the accounts. Speech that only
serves to push the cost of the privileges of the political class and
transport entrepreneurs onto the population. Just remember that
governors Tarcísio and Zema had their own salaries increased, and also
increased police salaries above inflation, while Education and Health
workers did not receive the same treatment.

Each fare increase increases exclusion, preventing more people from
leaving our cities because they do not have money to pay the fares and
also causing increasingly larger portions of our budgets to be spent on
travel, increasing cost and precariousness. of our lives.

The struggle for transport marks the history of Brazilian cities.
Milestones of this struggle include the Vintém Revolt (Rio de Janeiro,
1879/1880), the Barcas Revolt (Niterói, 1959), the Buzu Revolt
(Salvador, 2003), the Catraca Revolts (Florianópolis, 2004 and 2005) and
the June Days, which spread the fight for the Zero Tariff across the
country in 2013.

Thanks to this extensive historical movement of struggles for transport,
101 Brazilian cities have Zero Tariff, benefiting around 5 million
people. While more expensive fares keep people away from public
transport, the Zero Tariff encourages the use of buses, trains and
subways, with social and environmental benefits.

The Brazilian mobility crisis is the crisis of the marketing conception
of transport and only the Zero Tariff can change this situation! It
suffices to point out that all the cities that adopted the Zero Fare saw
an increase in the use of public transport, showing that there is a huge
demand that is suppressed by the fares.

Professional politicians and even social movements went to the judiciary
to try to stop the increases, which is an illusion. As our history of
popular struggles for transportation shows, only through the force of
the streets is it possible to make governments back down, moving towards
a model that does not treat transportation as a commodity.

For truly public transport, under worker control, accessible and of
quality for the entire population, without social exclusion!

AGAINST THE INCREASES!
ZERO RATE NOW!

OSL January 8, 2024

Category: zero tariff
Tags: free pass zero fare
OSL
"I will only be truly free when all the human beings around me, men and
women, are equally free."
- Mikhail Bakunin
https://socialismolibertario.net/2024/01/08/transporte-nao-e-mercadoria-tarifa-zero-ja/
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