(en) Anarkismo.net: Brazil, The World Cup and the power scheduling - 2 by BrunoL (pt)

In the previous article of this series I discussed the apparent relationship between 
football and electoral politics. In this paper, we observe the schedule of the event 
announced surpassing the ability of mass action and calls for protests across the Popular 
Committees Cup and related groups. ---- Brazilian hate FIFA and understand the modus 
operandi of their global articulations. ---- Every analyst must expose their assumptions 
and not confuse wants with the concrete company analyzed. So, I admit to have had greater 
expectations in relation to the acts of the street just to late summer, providing a peak 
by mid-May and into the calendar of the World Cup. This did not happen for a few reasons, 
which cast three. Beginning with the process of criminalization of organizers and 
activists, reinforced by the spectacle of media pyrotechnic arising on the death of 
cameraman TV Bandeirantes in Rio before Carnival.

As a part of the forces to the left who organized actions had (and have) electoral 
interests, the decrease in call came with the tactical option to withdraw from the scene 
due course. After the act of MPL in S?o Paulo, already during the FIFA tournament, this 
choice has become a national line and vertically has been followed.

The second reason is the lack of concrete demands and possibility of immediate 
achievements. As much as there has been a disastrous attempt to "hijack the agenda" at the 
end of June 2013, the victory of not increasing the passage in some state capitals and 
metropolitan achievements with a free pass was the result of the mass struggle for the 
right to the city . This is the Brazilian way of doing politics.

The legal text of the Statute of Cities is the accumulation of two decades of urban social 
movements led the struggle for housing and living conditions. Once put on paper, the 
rights materialize almost by force, forcing the agenda of leaders and decreasing the 
profit margin of the dealers. Now, with the ball rolling, removals of families and 
excesses of the General Law of the Cup were not enough to bring crowds to the streets.

The third and last one is the most obvious. Brazilian hate FIFA and understand the modus 
operandi of their global articulations. But the missing mass in football stadiums have a 
fundamental part of popular culture across the social pyramid and forging national 
identity. With the absence of common sense, coupled with the abuse of the repressive 
apparatus, most Brazilians perhaps expresses its capacity to mobilize until after the 
World Cup and before the start of the election campaign.

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