(en) Brazil, Uni?o Popular Anarquista (UNIPA) - FIFA World Cup: damage to the working class and the construction of the general strike (pt)

The FIFA World Cup is a big mega event sponsored by large multinational corporations 
(McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Adidas). Estimates are that only FIFA has a profit of 10 
billion reais. FIFA is a mafia, a family of organized crime that uses popular culture, 
football, to achieve profits for their executives. For that FIFA has the help of 
governments to pull oneself accept their requests, as tax exemption of 12 months and 
stadiums fully available to the entity. FIFA did not put a penny in any building or 
premises and to the pantry. Virtually all of them stands with public money. And all this 
also means the gentrification of football, with the expulsion of poor workers, mostly 
young and black, soccer stadiums.

With Megaeventos, which became the FIFA World Cup, only in Rio de Janeiro were 
removed four thousand seven hundred and threescore-two (4,772) families. In the process, 
popular neighborhoods before and forgotten by governments are modernized and poor workers 
expelled. As the case of the Port Zone of Rio de Janeiro and Recife Estelita Pier. 
Developments of large companies targeted only to earn more profit with real estate 
rentals. In this process we have the enhancement of the price of rental homes and playing 
for more workers away from these neighborhoods. During the World Cup increases cases of 
sexual exploitation, consented to by the State. In addition, the state increased 
repression and the criminalization of struggles to make profit of the bosses.

Against all consequences of the mega event, and not the football, the Popular 
Uprising in 2013 dared to confront the state and Large Enterprises singing? Will not Have 
Cup?! Since the stoppage of the World Cup would have economic and ideological effects, for 
it would destroy the myth of invincibility of the capitalist system and compromise the 
investments. And the strategy that the uprising was inaugurated direct action to culminate 
in a general strike. The cry of order:? "Is Barricade, general strike! Direct action 
Tipping capital? "Came the uprising continues and the mobilizations Street.

Why defend the General Strike?

The state and the bourgeoisie, with the help of union bureaucracies (CUT, CTB, For?a, 
UGT, CSP-Conlutas, CGT and Inter) try to control the protests. The ruling (PT-PCdoB) and 
the bosses came out to defend the national and international capital, putting himself 
against the protests and the unification of the struggles of categories. The PT and 
advertisers have created the slogan "Go Tue Cup". The to-government (SoL, PSTU) created 
the slogan? Go Cup on Tue Fight? which marks a consented opposition. Within the order. 
Willing to take control of the government.

The parties argue that central and workers are in favor Cup FIFA and against the 
protests and, therefore, not mobilized. Sectors linked to SoL and PSTU pretend that 
mobilize, in a kind of telecatch fight. The two parties did everything to the campaign? 
"There's Having Cup?" Not come to industries as diverse as public servants. Held a summit 
for the campaign? Cup Will Have Fight In? and prevented all of them, as in the subway of 
S?o Paulo.

With this, they fought by all means the construction of the general strike. The 
strategy of the General Strike scares all central and parties. The first manifestation of 
a general strike that emerged in the heat of the Levant gained the bus stops, taverns, 
bars, bakeries, markets, train stations and metro of the country. Soon all the parties and 
gathered plants to prevent it. The general strike is the main strategy of direct action, 
unification of all workers struggle. The parties sabotaged the formation of an inter-union 
strike committee formed by committees of the strikes from the bottom to bet on plenary 
union currents.

And in the categories in which the central leadership and parties have tried to 
prevent strikes or cause them suited to legalism, avoiding? Losses? the operation of the 
system during the World Cup (as happened in the strike of road from Rio de Janeiro). In 
fact is not that the slogan does not find an echo among workers. Rather, it came from 
them. Is not that impossible. The fact is that government supporters and paragovernistas 
systematically work against the general strike. They work as firefighters to prevent the 
fire from spreading rebellion. They lose control. And then do not serve for anything else. 
They are part of the factors that hinder this process. So fight the union bureaucracy is 
so important, so please do not fight, you must construct the revolutionary syndicalism as 
a form of mass organization.

Confrontation between indigenous people and police forces on the esplanade of ministries 
prevented the visitation of the cup in the federal capital.