A new "Administrative Reform" is advancing in the Chamber of Deputies,
this time orchestrated in a collusion between the Lula-Alckmin
government, the Centrão (center-right bloc), and the far-right. The
Administrative Reform, filed as Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC)
No. 38/2025, is a strong attack by the dominant classes disguised as
modernization. It represents the consolidation of a neoliberal project
that has been continuously built by various governments of all political
persuasions and, to some extent, at the state and municipal levels (as
exemplified by the recent attacks on education in São Paulo), aiming to
strangle the rights of the working class, further precariousize our
lives, and hand over what remains of public services to private
initiative, transforming them into commodities and subjecting them to
the logic of profit. The effect of this is the cutting of rights, the
freezing of social investments, and a worsening of public service
provision, on which the vast majority of the Brazilian working
population depends.
Repackaging the attacks of PEC 32 from the Bolsonaro era, the current
government proves that the management of the capitalist state, whatever
its guise, has a single project: to deepen exploitation and commodify
every aspect of our lives. This is not a project of efficiency or of
combating privileges, but of demolishing public policies. Its essence is
to destroy stable employment and weaken public services, expand
precarious outsourcing and temporary contracts, implement punitive
performance evaluations - which can lead to dismissals without due
process - and dismantle career plans, with wage freezes, reductions in
starting salaries, and the elimination of progression based on length of
service, all to privatize what remains - from health and education to
social assistance. In practice, this attack on the stability of civil
servants and, therefore, on their professional autonomy, facilitates the
association of the work performed by the professional with the political
preferences of their superiors, something already observed in contract
and commissioned positions.
The new administrative reform proposal maintains the essential attacks
of the neoliberal agenda, even with superficial adjustments. While
dismantling the services that sustain the lives of the majority, the
privileged castes - of the Judiciary, the Armed Forces, and the high
command - remain untouched in their privileges. The so-called
"modernization" serves, in reality, to concentrate power at the top to
the detriment of the people. This is the perfect portrait of the
bourgeois state: the minimum for the working class, maximum power and
perks for the already privileged.
Anchored in the discourse of fiscal responsibility, the reform serves
the interests of the financial sector and employers' associations,
imposing a spending cap that will also affect state and municipal civil
servants, retirees, and the population as a whole. Just as PEC 32 was
defeated by popular mobilization, it is fundamental to build unity
between public servants and social movements to block this project,
whose sole objective is to transform rights into profit and deepen the
dismantling of social rights.
The attacks are clear and should mobilize the population to defeat the PEC:
Creation of a new Spending Cap, limiting the growth of investments in
health, education, and housing;
Freezing and flattening of salaries, with the end of progression based
on length of service;
End of historical rights such as five-year increments, sixth-part
bonuses, and hazard pay;
Total precarization, with the expansion of outsourcing and temporary
contracts, creating a reserve army of precarious workers to replace
tenured civil servants;
Attack on job security through meritocratic and productivist
evaluations, tools of moral harassment that facilitate dismissals and
undermine the right to strike and union organization;
Privileges maintained for the upper echelons of the State, such as
judges and the military, revealing the classist and hypocritical nature
of the reform;
Substantial worsening of service in the public sector, directly
affecting users, that is, the entire working population.
The electoral and negotiation strategy: The decisive brake on the struggles
Faced with this attack, we cannot place any trust in the bureaucracies
of the large trade union centers that compromise, and depending on the
case, are part of this same power. From what we have seen so far, the
union bureaucracies and institutional left-wing parties such as the PT
and PSOL are stalling, aiming only for electoral gains and internal
negotiation within parliament. These same sectors directly attack the
public service, through measures such as the application of performance
evaluation in the INSS (National Institute of Social Security), the
attempted privatization of the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography
and Statistics), and the direct attack against the movement of students
and workers of federal universities last year, who demanded the transfer
of funds that were drastically reduced.
These sectors will not engage in the necessary struggle to definitively
stop this reform. On the contrary, as has been the case in recent years,
they will be an obstacle that works towards demobilization.
Dissatisfaction with the precariousness and deterioration of public
services is evident. In recent years, many strikes by public servants
and social movements demanding free and quality public services have
been some of the spearheads in the class struggle. It is necessary to
break the isolation of these episodes and build a unified struggle of
the working class in defense of public services. Faced with this
scenario, we cannot fall into the trap of corporatism. From the
perspective of public service workers, the struggle cannot be to defend
the jobs and working conditions of only one specific sector, isolating
itself from the rest of the working class that suffers from
precariousness in the private sector and from dilapidated public services.
It is necessary to work to make it clear that the struggle for quality
public service and quality for all people is not opposed to the defense
of the working conditions of public servants. They complement each other
and are part of the same struggle. For a grassroots struggle strategy
The mobilization called for October 29th in Brasília is an important
step, but it cannot be the only one. We must pressure politicians and
the large union bureaucracy to stop this veritable destruction of public
services and the even deeper precarization of life and rights,
especially for the poorest. Popular power does not reside in
institutional parties, but in direct action and self-organization from
workplaces and neighborhoods.
In our actions, we advocate:
Building autonomous grassroots committees: In all workplaces and
territories, we must promote independent grassroots committees that
discuss and decide the course of the struggle. These committees should
articulate the demands of public servants and outsourced public service
workers with the demands of oppressed classes for health, education,
transportation, social assistance, etc.;
Radicalize the mobilization: Boost the national strikes on October 28th
and 29th, not as a mere symbolic protest, but as a rehearsal of popular
power that initiates a calendar of struggles;
Unify the struggles: Take the fight against the Administrative Reform
out of cabinet meetings. It is necessary to dialogue with the
population, to show that this attack worsens the education of their
children, the health of their family and social assistance. We must
unite this struggle with other urgent issues, such as the right to housing;
Prepare a general strike of public servants: The only force capable of
defeating this project is a massive, organized and combative general
strike of all public employees. But this strike must be built from the
bottom up, controlled by the grassroots, and have as its horizon not
only defeating the reform, but advancing in the conquest of spaces for
self-management.
The Administrative Reform is yet another chapter in the war of capital
against the people. Our response cannot be to gamble on parliamentary
decisions. It must be one of organization, independent mobilization and
direct struggle!
NO TO ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM OF CAPITAL!
FOR SELF-MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL!
OUR STRUGGLE IS IN THE STREETS AND FROM THE GRASSROOTS!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
October 2025
https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/10/29/contra-a-reforma-administrativa/
_________________________________________
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this time orchestrated in a collusion between the Lula-Alckmin
government, the Centrão (center-right bloc), and the far-right. The
Administrative Reform, filed as Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC)
No. 38/2025, is a strong attack by the dominant classes disguised as
modernization. It represents the consolidation of a neoliberal project
that has been continuously built by various governments of all political
persuasions and, to some extent, at the state and municipal levels (as
exemplified by the recent attacks on education in São Paulo), aiming to
strangle the rights of the working class, further precariousize our
lives, and hand over what remains of public services to private
initiative, transforming them into commodities and subjecting them to
the logic of profit. The effect of this is the cutting of rights, the
freezing of social investments, and a worsening of public service
provision, on which the vast majority of the Brazilian working
population depends.
Repackaging the attacks of PEC 32 from the Bolsonaro era, the current
government proves that the management of the capitalist state, whatever
its guise, has a single project: to deepen exploitation and commodify
every aspect of our lives. This is not a project of efficiency or of
combating privileges, but of demolishing public policies. Its essence is
to destroy stable employment and weaken public services, expand
precarious outsourcing and temporary contracts, implement punitive
performance evaluations - which can lead to dismissals without due
process - and dismantle career plans, with wage freezes, reductions in
starting salaries, and the elimination of progression based on length of
service, all to privatize what remains - from health and education to
social assistance. In practice, this attack on the stability of civil
servants and, therefore, on their professional autonomy, facilitates the
association of the work performed by the professional with the political
preferences of their superiors, something already observed in contract
and commissioned positions.
The new administrative reform proposal maintains the essential attacks
of the neoliberal agenda, even with superficial adjustments. While
dismantling the services that sustain the lives of the majority, the
privileged castes - of the Judiciary, the Armed Forces, and the high
command - remain untouched in their privileges. The so-called
"modernization" serves, in reality, to concentrate power at the top to
the detriment of the people. This is the perfect portrait of the
bourgeois state: the minimum for the working class, maximum power and
perks for the already privileged.
Anchored in the discourse of fiscal responsibility, the reform serves
the interests of the financial sector and employers' associations,
imposing a spending cap that will also affect state and municipal civil
servants, retirees, and the population as a whole. Just as PEC 32 was
defeated by popular mobilization, it is fundamental to build unity
between public servants and social movements to block this project,
whose sole objective is to transform rights into profit and deepen the
dismantling of social rights.
The attacks are clear and should mobilize the population to defeat the PEC:
Creation of a new Spending Cap, limiting the growth of investments in
health, education, and housing;
Freezing and flattening of salaries, with the end of progression based
on length of service;
End of historical rights such as five-year increments, sixth-part
bonuses, and hazard pay;
Total precarization, with the expansion of outsourcing and temporary
contracts, creating a reserve army of precarious workers to replace
tenured civil servants;
Attack on job security through meritocratic and productivist
evaluations, tools of moral harassment that facilitate dismissals and
undermine the right to strike and union organization;
Privileges maintained for the upper echelons of the State, such as
judges and the military, revealing the classist and hypocritical nature
of the reform;
Substantial worsening of service in the public sector, directly
affecting users, that is, the entire working population.
The electoral and negotiation strategy: The decisive brake on the struggles
Faced with this attack, we cannot place any trust in the bureaucracies
of the large trade union centers that compromise, and depending on the
case, are part of this same power. From what we have seen so far, the
union bureaucracies and institutional left-wing parties such as the PT
and PSOL are stalling, aiming only for electoral gains and internal
negotiation within parliament. These same sectors directly attack the
public service, through measures such as the application of performance
evaluation in the INSS (National Institute of Social Security), the
attempted privatization of the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography
and Statistics), and the direct attack against the movement of students
and workers of federal universities last year, who demanded the transfer
of funds that were drastically reduced.
These sectors will not engage in the necessary struggle to definitively
stop this reform. On the contrary, as has been the case in recent years,
they will be an obstacle that works towards demobilization.
Dissatisfaction with the precariousness and deterioration of public
services is evident. In recent years, many strikes by public servants
and social movements demanding free and quality public services have
been some of the spearheads in the class struggle. It is necessary to
break the isolation of these episodes and build a unified struggle of
the working class in defense of public services. Faced with this
scenario, we cannot fall into the trap of corporatism. From the
perspective of public service workers, the struggle cannot be to defend
the jobs and working conditions of only one specific sector, isolating
itself from the rest of the working class that suffers from
precariousness in the private sector and from dilapidated public services.
It is necessary to work to make it clear that the struggle for quality
public service and quality for all people is not opposed to the defense
of the working conditions of public servants. They complement each other
and are part of the same struggle. For a grassroots struggle strategy
The mobilization called for October 29th in Brasília is an important
step, but it cannot be the only one. We must pressure politicians and
the large union bureaucracy to stop this veritable destruction of public
services and the even deeper precarization of life and rights,
especially for the poorest. Popular power does not reside in
institutional parties, but in direct action and self-organization from
workplaces and neighborhoods.
In our actions, we advocate:
Building autonomous grassroots committees: In all workplaces and
territories, we must promote independent grassroots committees that
discuss and decide the course of the struggle. These committees should
articulate the demands of public servants and outsourced public service
workers with the demands of oppressed classes for health, education,
transportation, social assistance, etc.;
Radicalize the mobilization: Boost the national strikes on October 28th
and 29th, not as a mere symbolic protest, but as a rehearsal of popular
power that initiates a calendar of struggles;
Unify the struggles: Take the fight against the Administrative Reform
out of cabinet meetings. It is necessary to dialogue with the
population, to show that this attack worsens the education of their
children, the health of their family and social assistance. We must
unite this struggle with other urgent issues, such as the right to housing;
Prepare a general strike of public servants: The only force capable of
defeating this project is a massive, organized and combative general
strike of all public employees. But this strike must be built from the
bottom up, controlled by the grassroots, and have as its horizon not
only defeating the reform, but advancing in the conquest of spaces for
self-management.
The Administrative Reform is yet another chapter in the war of capital
against the people. Our response cannot be to gamble on parliamentary
decisions. It must be one of organization, independent mobilization and
direct struggle!
NO TO ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM OF CAPITAL!
FOR SELF-MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL!
OUR STRUGGLE IS IN THE STREETS AND FROM THE GRASSROOTS!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
October 2025
https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/10/29/contra-a-reforma-administrativa/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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