This article is a mere outline and aims to promote discussion about how and where social struggles will be fought in the future,
The most basic social ideal of the relationship between man and land is shelved in Congress. And this is not from this government, but from the previous one, and the one before that, and it extends throughout history with no prospect of a solution. But do not be mistaken to believe that there is no room for this discussion among us. This is because as early as the 1988 Constitution, property was given a valuable meaning, the “social value”.
As seen in a snippet of an interview attached below, there is still the raw spirit of militant action that denounces and provokes injustice, the sacrifice of martyrs, and I ask, does this work?
I don't believe this works in Brazil. In France, where the death of a black teenager justifies burning cars (2003), or a two-year increase in retirement age paralyzes the country (2010), a social struggle action with human wear and tear might possibly be valued,
In a place called Brazil, it happens quite differently,
Naturally, everything involving human beings is subject to corruption, but we cannot go from the specific to the general, at the risk of committing serious injustices.
In Brazil, associations like Casa de Mães Solteiras (Single Mothers’ House) were labeled as “whorehouses,” and the MST as a monster that aims to destroy the divine right of those to whom God conceived lust and arrogance; communists eat children, and bankers,
POOR VICTIMS,...
The Government does what it can, so today a salaried worker who happens to exceed their limit by R$ 10 will have to pay a fine ranging from R$ 22 to R$ 69, since the BACEN protects the poor bankers from what it describes in a Resolution as “credit risk.” Let's not talk about overdraft interest, that topic really hurts,
Attached below is the response given to the Jornal Sem Terra, Issue: 306, Sep, 2010, reporter Mayrá Lima, to the question asked to José Batista de Oliveira, a member of the national coordination of the MST, about the issue: What to expect from the next President of the Republic?
The answer was as follows: “Regardless of the elections, we need to strengthen our organizational work and invest in the training of workers. As much as there is dialogue with government institutions, we will only obtain the necessary achievements through struggle. Our priority is to massify the struggle so that we increase social pressure and establish a negotiation relationship that guarantees the fulfillment of our agenda and the autonomy of the Movement.”
José, change your approach, find paths for reform in the legislature (we vote) and in the judiciary (we study), because the people have already suffered for 500 years and have not managed to defeat the system. The strength of youth, MST follows better paths, but still errs in refolding old paths.
