The indignant ones in South America (1/3)

International The political right looks for to wear away the current government The indignant ones in South America (1/3) By: Carlos Damián July 3, 2013 It is time that the town allies with the government: MST México. - The member of the directive one of the Movement of Rural Workers without earth, Joao Pedro Stédile, talks about the perspectives of the mobilizations in Brazil. We have diverse evaluations of why they are happening manifestations of dissatisfaction. I add myself to teacher Erminia Maricato's analysis, the biggest specialist in urban topics and that it acted in the Ministry of Cities in Olivio Dutra's administration. She defends the thesis that an urban crisis installed in the Brazilian cities exists, caused by the current stage of the financial capitalism. There was an enormous real state speculation that elevated 150 percent the prices of the rents and of the lands in the last three years. “Without any government control, the capital financed the sale of automobiles and the shipment from that money to the exterior, what transformed our traffic in a chaos. While, in the last 10 years there was not investment in the public transportation. The residence program, My House, My Life, pushed the poor toward the peripheries, without adding infrastructure conditions. "All that generated a structural crisis and that people are living in a hell in the big cities, losing three or four hours per day in the traffic, when they could be with their families, studying or participating in cultural activities. To that it adds the terrible quality of the public services, especially those of health and also those of education, from the primary school and the secondary education, of which the students leave without knowing how to edit. And the higher education changed local of sales of diplomas for one of benefits where 70 percent of the university students are." The Brazilian politician's plasticity The events were due to that, the 15 years of neoliberalism, more the last 10 years of a government of coexistence of classes, they transformed the way of making political in hardly a relating of the interests of the capital. The political parties aged their political practices and they became mere initials that agglutinate; in their majority, to opportunists that want to ascend in their positions or to enter to the dispute for the public resources. "All the youths born after the direct already” -surroundings of 1984, at the end of the dictatorship -, they didn't have opportunity to participate in politics. Today, to dispute any position; example, of municipal civil servant, the candidate specifies to have more than 1.3 million dollars; a deputy costs around 13 millions dollars. The capitalists pay and later the politicians obey. The youth is ‘until the crown of tolerating them’ in that way of making political bourgeois, mercantile. But the most serious thing was that the parties of the institutional left-wing, all they, molded to those methods. They aged and they were bureaucratized, therefore, they generated in the youth hate, distancing, with that form of acting. They are right: the youth is political, on the contrary of what is believed; so certain that they took out the politics to the streets, although they didn't have defined conscience of their meaning. However, it is saying that he doesn't tolerate more to see in television those political practices that they kidnap the vote of people being based on the lie and the manipulation. It is that the left parties specify to learn again that their paper is to organize the social fight and politically to the hard-working class. If they would not fall in the common grave… of the history." The political parties are mere initials that agglutinate to opportunists The manifestations probably exploded up to now due to the sum of diverse factors of the character due to the psychology of the masses, more than a planned decision. The whole climate was added that have been commented, more than the accusations of the super-billing of the works of the stadiums, what was in an incentive for the town. If it is not observes this way you some episodes. The newsy net, O' Globo received from the State government of River of Janeiro and of the municipality of the city 26.6 millions dollars of public money to organize the small show of hardly two hours of the raffle of the Confederations’ Cup. The stadium of Brasilia cost a thousand 333 millions dollars, as long as public transportation doesn't exist in the city! The dictatorship of the FIFA and the Brazilian Confederation of Soccer (BCS) it is explicit and it was imposed with their robberies, and the governments underwent. The inauguration again of Maracana was a bandage that you/they tried to put to the town. The pictures were clear: in the biggest temple World cup there was not any black one or half-caste one! Then, that of the increase of the bus rates was hardly the spark to light the widespread feeling of revolt, of indignation. The gasoline for the spark came from the Paulo’s government of (Geraldo) Alkmin that, protected by the media that finances, it is accustomed to hit unpunished to the town, like he made in (and the neighborhood of ) Pinheirinho (in San Joao dois Campos City) and in other rural and urban places, sending to the police to make a barbarism. There it was that all worlds reacted. "Now then: the youth woke up. In that there is merit of the Movimento Passe Livre (MPL) that it knew how to capitalize that popular dissatisfaction and it organized the protests in the fair moment". The hard-working class has not still come out to the streets to protest because they are considered as middle class, low middle class and some youths are also included that André Singer would call subproletariats that they study and they work in the sector of services that their consumption conditions were improved, but that they also want to be heard. These last ones appeared in some state capitals and of the periphery. "The reduction of the rate of the public transportation interested a lot to the whole town and that the success of the MPL that it knew how to summon mobilizations on behalf of the most general interests was. And the town supported those manifestations and that is expressed in the indexes of the youths' popularity, mainly when they were repressed." "The class worker delays in moving, but when he makes it affects directly to the capital, that which has not still happened. We believe that the organizations that make the connections with the hard-working class have not still understood the moment and they have a shy behavior. But the class, as class (social), we believe that it is willing to fight. Notice that the strikes for topics salary vindictive again already recovered the occurrence of the 80’s. We understand that it is a question of time so that the connections with the hard-working class guess right in the flags that make it move. In the last days it is perceived that in some smaller cities and in the peripheries of the big ones (cities) they begin to have manifestations with flags of well formalized recoveries. That is very important." We have not still taken into account to the voices of the MST and the peasants, but in the capitals where we have establishments and next family farmers to the urban thing, we are already participating. We even give testimony that we were very well received with our green flag and our recovery of agrarian reformation, healthy and cheap foods for the whole town. It understands each other that in the next elections they will be able to have a bigger adhesion, even carrying out peasants' manifestations in the terminals and a municipality of the interior. Among our militancy we have everybody crazy to enter to the fight and to be mobilized. We hope they move quick… (La Jornada, Los indignados de Brasil, p. 2, June 25, 2013).