By Raúl Zibechi, Roar Magazine
This is the second part of an article by Raul Zibechi on the
recent Brazilian uprisings (read part one here). The full piece was originally
published by the Observatorio Social de América Latina (OSAL Nº 34). English
translation by Ramor Ryan for Upside Down World.
The Pan-American Games as a Rehearsal
“People have the illusion that they will profit from the World
Cup events, but the truth is that they will be brutally suppressed,” said
Roberto Morales, deputy adviser to Marcelo Freixo of the Socialism and Liberty
Party (PSOL), a year and a half before the Confederations Cup. (Zibechi, 2012b)
Morales participates in the Comitê Popular da Copa (Popular Committee for the
World Cup) that was created during the Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro in
2007, when local people began to resist forced relocation to make way for
games’ facilities.
The experience of the Pan-American Games was instrumental in
convincing the activists working with the popular sectors of the coming
disaster. In the ensuing years the city was to host four mega sporting events
that would lead to long-term changes in the urban infrastructure, affecting
mainly poor residents: the 2011 World Military Games, the 2013 Confederations
Cup, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
For activists with the Popular Committee for the World Cup,
the Pan-American Games were a watershed as they revealed the Brazilian
government’s inability to manage public funds in a democratic and transparent
manner, or to open a space for effective dialogue with civil society on the
legacy of the Games (Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro,
2012). For the social movement, the games were an opportunity to create a broad
and stable coordination that could bring people together, overcoming localism
and fragmentation.
At this time, urban movements in Rio were in a state of
“extreme fragmentation”, as were student and land reform movements, and
separate from the NGO sector also working with popular sectors (Marques, De
Moura and Lopes, 2011:242). According to this investigation, demonstrations and
street actions against the Pan-American Games began in 2006 focusing on the
forced evictions caused by the construction of sports infrastructure. Between
April 2006 and October 2007 there were as many as 45 demonstrations protesting
the Games in Rio held in July (Marques, De Moura and Lopes, 2011:245).
During the first stage, from April 2006 to April 2007,
demonstrations were organized by groups directly affected by the public works,
such as neighborhood groups resisting evictions, generally supported by
professional associations (geographers in particular), municipal councillors,
the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), the association of Rio favelas and the
Order of Lawyers of Brazil. Street actions, meetings and seminars were
organized to highlight how these publicly funded mega-events benefited the
private sector and hurt the poor. Three months before the Games, five thousand
activists participated in “The City: A Right For Everyone” seminar in São
Paulo, an event that had the support of the MST, the Intersindical and Conlutas
trade unions, as well as the PSOL and other left parties (Marques, De Moura and
Lopes, 2011:247).
On May 1, 2007, more than 40 organizations convened a rally
in a favela threatened with eviction, led by local social and political
organizations and joined by social groups from across the city. The
coordination had organized numerous demonstrations throughout the year and
decided to hold an event on the opening day of the Games, July 13. More than
100 activists from 60 groups organized the protest on the opening day of the
Games. Defying the climate of fear against protest in the city, 1,500
protesters attended. Inside the Maracaná Stadium, President Lula was booed by
protesters to the extent he was unable to finish his inaugural address. (Folha
de São Paulo, 2007)
The coordination of social movements continued organizing
resistance to favela home demolitions caused by the Pan-American Games and is
considered a key element in creating the network of social movements that came
together in the lead up to the June uprising. (Marques, De Moura and Lopes,
2011: 247-252)
The two main organizing groups – the Popular Committee for
the World Cup and the Rio Olympics and the National Popular Committees for the
World Cup – built on the experience of the Pan-American Games and formed groups
in each of the twelve cities chosen to host the 2014 World Cup matches. The
Committee’s report, Mega-Events and Human Rights Violations in Brazil, claims
that a total of 170,000 people will be affected by the construction works and
outlines the numerous problems accompanying the mega-events, from the violation
of housing rights to labor issues on the work sites, as well as the lack of
environmental impact studies.
The report says that in 21 villas (townships) and favelas of
seven cities hosting the World Cup, the state is implementing “strategies of
war and persecution, including marking out houses with paint without
explanation, the invasion of homes without court orders, and misappropriation
and destruction of property,” on top of threats, cutting services and other
acts of intimidation. (Articulação Nacional dos Comitês Populares da Copa,
2011:11) All those affected live in low-income areas with varying degrees of
precariousness and informality. ”The lack of information and prior notification
creates a climate of instability and fear about the future,” says the report,
which paralyzes the affected families and places them at the mercy of the
authorities or speculators. (Nacional Articulação Nacional dos Comitês
Populares da Copa, 2011:8)
The Popular Committees, like the Free Fare Movement, devoted
a lot of energy to research, followed up by widespread dissemination of their
findings. Their report concludes that the huge public work programs for the
mega-events are carried out by only a handful of construction companies which
benefit from the privatization of the stadiums. As well as benefiting from the
construction contracts, the small group of companies also take long-term
control of the privatized facilities constructed with public funds. The sheer
scale of the infrastructure construction (highways, airports, stadiums and
transport) allows the report to come to the same conclusion as the Free Fare
Movement – namely, that the right to the city for citizens is being violated.
Researching and publishing such reports is one side of the
Popular Committees’ activities, the other is organizing mobilizations and
working with the affected communities. In March 2010, the political climate
changed when the Urban Social Forum was held in Rio, consolidating the
coordination of movements against mega-events. In 2011, the Popular Committees
organized thirteen public activities in Rio alone, involving mobilizations,
public hearings, seminars, demonstrations of support for affected communities,
and a protest march outside the preliminary events of the 2014 World Cup
qualifiers. (Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro, 2012:77)
The change in political climate can be seen on the Rio de
Janeiro electoral landscape. The PSOL activist Marcelo Freixo was elected a
state deputy in 2006 with 13,500 votes. He became president of the Human Rights
Commission of the Rio parliament, and chaired committees investigating militias
and arms trafficking in the city. On the back of his notable work against corruption
and mafias, his grassroots support grew and Freixo was re-elected in 2010 with
177,000 votes. In the 2012 municipal elections, he ran for mayor without any
major financial backing and very little television time, relying instead on
grassroots support, youth social networks, popular artists like Caetano Veloso
and Chico Buarque, and personalities like Frei Betto.
Freixo chose Marcelo Yuka as candidate for vice-mayor, a
former rap musician who was shot in an assault and left in a paraplegic state.
His campaign finale was attended by 15,000 people despite heavy rain. Caetano
Veloso said he had not participated in a political event since Lula’s campaign
for president in 1989. “I’m here as a resident and elector of Rio de Janeiro to
simply say what a joy and honor it is to vote for a candidate like Marcelo
Freixo, who represents dignity in Brazilian politics.” Freixo didn’t win, but
obtained more than 900,000 votes, 28% of the electorate. (O Globo, 2012)
Construction work on stadiums for the 2014 World Cup – some
premiered during the 2013 Confederations Cup – remains the most controversial
public issue, even among athletes. Much of the criticism has been focused on
the refurbishment of the legendary Maracaná Stadium, symbol of the country’s
great football and sports tradition. Renovation work took three years, longer
than its initial construction, and cost more than $600 million, double the cost
of South Africa’s Soccer City stadium where the 2010 World Cup final was held.
The Maracaná stadium has been leased for 35 years to a business consortium with
90% of the shares held by Odebrecht, Brazil’s primary construction company and
a major donor to political parties, in particular the governing Worker’s Party.
(Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro, 2013:54)
However, even more than the cost of the construction works,
the football-mad public is angry about the sense of being excluded from the
national sport. The 1950 World Cup final in a newly opened Maracaná was
attended by 203,000 spectators, 8.5% of the population of Rio de Janeiro. The
general public made up 80% of the total attendance in the ‘general’ and
‘popular’ standing room only sections. After several remodels, the stadium’s
current capacity is 75,000, less than 1% of the population of the city. The
gentrification of the sport can be visualized in the reconstruction of Maracaná
to suit the requirements of FIFA. The once rowdy, swollen and disorderly
bleachers have been replaced with sterile seating rows where crowd
participation is limited to choreographed “waves” and the orderly fluttering of
individual mini-flags. The aim of the refurbishment is to create a
“multi-purpose arena” to host concerts and shows with segregated corporate
boxes equipped with private bars, television screens and air conditioning,
accessed directly by car via a private ramp avoiding any contact with the
“multitude”. (National Articulação dos Comitês Populares da Copa, 2011:11-12)7
The tickets are far more expensive than previous World
Cup’s: Categories 1, 2 and 3 are priced at $203, $192 and $112, compared to
$126, $75 and $57 in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and $160, $120 and $80 in
South Africa, 2010. Only category 4 tickets are cheaper than in Germany ($25 vs
$45) but more expensive than in the last World Cup. (Comitê Popular da Copa e
Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro, 2013:59) In addition, facilities built for the
2007 Pan-American Games such as the velodrome and Aquatic Park were demolished
because they did not conform with the World Cycling Federation requirements, at
the cost of $50 million for public expenditure.
In 2011, Atletas pela Cidandania (Athletes for Citizens) was
formed as a platform for promoting a public debate around the sports and social
legacy of the mega-events, supported by 60 top athletes, including popular
footballers Kaka, Dunga, Dani Alves and Cafu. During the 2012 municipal
election campaign, Atletas pela Cidandania petitioned mayoral candidates in 11
cities to make a commitment to supporting public use of the facilities of the
mega-events. Shortly before the large demonstrations that marked the
Confederations Cup in April, 57 top athletes from varied disciplines signed a
petition against the demolition of the Maracaná complex that includes swimming
pools, running tracks, a municipal school and an Indian Museum, to make way for
parking lots and shopping centers. The petition read: “Sporting [in Brazil] is
now in a sad state. There is long-term planning and evaluation for construction
and infrastructure investments, but none for the development of sport.”
(Atletas pela Cidandania, 2013)
Reflecting the opinion of many Brazilians regarding the
myriad construction works for the World Cup, the Popular Committees noted: “The
historical stadiums are being destroyed to be rebuilt as consumption and
tourism centers, like shopping malls. Tickets to national and state
championships are too expensive and out of reach for the ‘traditional’ fan.”
(Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro, 2013:53)
Debating the Character of the June Mobilizations
Considering the trajectory of the new urban movements, the
massive demonstrations in June 2013 do not come as such a surprise. The sheer
scale and duration of the protests alongside the radicalism of many of the
protesters is indeed striking, but not the general outrage against the increase
in transport costs and deep criticism of the Confederations Cup set-up.
Taking into account this brief overview of the work of the
Free Fare movement and the Popular Committees, I wish to challenge some of
common misunderstandings formed around the June demonstrations, with the
intention of contributing towards the debate on today’s popular struggles. I am
attempting to approach the events from the perspective of the people themselves
rather than that of the government or political parties. While the perspective
of the government and parties are always relevant, when millions take to the
streets it does not seem ethically appropriate to explain the decisions they
take as if they were in response to external stimuli. That would be a rather
colonial way of thinking. As Ranahit Guha, founder of the school of
post-colonial studies stated, “the farmer knew what he was doing when he
revolted.” (Guha, 2002:104)
It was not a spontaneous act, but the massive expansion of existing
movements. Every time since 2003 fare increases have been met with
demonstrations, rallies, street blockades, destruction of turnstiles,
disruption of bus services and occupations of transport terminals. There have
even been significant uprisings against fare increases, such as Salvador in
2003 and Florianópolis in 2004 and 2005. The Free Fare Movement has been
organizing street protests for over eight years, legitimizing struggle and
establishing the custom of mobilizing against the fare increases that make
Brazil’s transport costs the highest in the world. Thus a binomial has been
established in the minds of the public in large cities: fare increase =
protest.
While the media has mostly focused on transport issues as
the catalyst for the June protests, one aspect has received scant coverage. The
Popular Committees have succeeded in changing public perception around the
impact of the infrastructural works for mega-events; there is widespread
understanding that cities are being redesigned for the speculative market and
the benefit of a few. Beyond raising consciousness, the Committees have
mobilized a sizeable sector of the affected population and expanded their base
of operations, similar to the MPL. “The Popular Committees started to have an
impact in resisting evictions in entire neighborhoods,” MPL activist Duques
Lima points out. (Zibechi, 2013) Six months before the June demonstrations,
activists from the Popular Committees were organizing intensely with the
inhabitants of Vila Autódromo and Morro da Providencia in Rio de Janeiro,
resisting the demolition of buildings and eviction orders. (Zibechi, 2012a)
Between March 2011 and May 2013 the Committee held 78 events
in Rio de Janeiro alone, including 15 street demonstrations. They organized a
campaign to preserve the Maracaná Stadium with the slogan O Maraca é nosso!/The
Maraca is Ours! supported by popular artists like Chico Buarque who sported the
slogan on his shirt at media events. Four demonstrations were held in front of
the Maracaná, including two marches to the stadium and a protest on the day of
its reopening. (Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro,
2013:113-124)
In truth, the most astonishing factor of the June
demonstrations was the sheer number of people doing more or less exactly the
same as what the activists had been doing for years. I want to emphasize two
significant occurrences: firstly, there was a popular overflow from below and
secondly, a mass reaction of solidarity and outrage against police repression.
These cannot be considered acts of spontaneity. Following Gramsci, Guha argues
that there is no place for pure spontaneity in history and to consider popular
revolts as acts of mere spontaneity is an elitist attitude, implying that
mobilization from below is “completely dependent on the intervention of
charismatic leaders, advanced political organizations or the upper classes.”
(Guha, 2002:98) In the same sense, the supposed prominent role played by social
networks in mobilizing the masses can be seen as another example of this kind
of elitist analysis, detached from reality.
This is an anti-capitalist struggle. FIFA is one of the
largest multinationals in the world, controlled by a cabal of corrupt
businessmen. It’s power is such that it can dictate policy to countries,
demanding the introduction of special legislation, privileges and tax
exemptions in the sale of FIFA products. It even has the power to force
governments to stop local companies selling unauthorized products. Brazil
adopted the controversial World Cup General Law on June 5, 2012 after years of
debate. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has been requested to intervene by the
Federal Public Prosecutor, charging that several articles are unconstitutional.
(O Estado de São Paulo, 2013) The protest marches at the Confederations Cup
matches in June should be considered a direct and explicit challenge to the
World Cup General Law negotiated by the government and FIFA.
The anti-capitalist character of the June protests and the
movements behind them is revealed in their resistance to capitalist
accumulation around mega-events and mega-projects — a model that we could
describe as “urban extractivism”. The Zero Fare campaign is a response to urban
extractivism, promoting access to social rights such as health, education and
culture, and “the right to be able to move around the city itself, and from
that to meet up, to reflect and to produce the tools to transform it.” (Legume and
Toledo, 2011)
Another member of the Free Fare Movement, Marcelo Pomar,
argues for the de-commodification of public transport, transforming it into an
essential public service, the costs of which should be borne by those who
benefit from the flow of goods and people. “Public transportation costs are a
sophisticated mechanism of social control,” argues Pomar, functioning to allow
the dominant class to enclose the popular sectors in the slums and peripheries
of the city. (Coletivo Maria Tonha, 2013)
How can we not consider the fight to break this control
mechanism an anti-capitalist struggle, when those from below actively change
the place in society designated to them by the ruling class? The MPL argues
that the Zero Fare campaign is a struggle for all and changes everything; it is
a means to subvert the transport system and, thus, the whole structure of the
city. Urban mobility is restricted by spatial, social, racial and gender
segregation, to the point that, to give one example, people living in Brasilia’s
satellite towns and working in the cities’ planned city center feel like
prisoners in their suburbs. As night falls,”a kind of curfew takes hold in the
city, affecting those who depend on public transport.” (Saraiva, 2010:99)
The huge construction works for the World Cup and the
Olympics are creating a similar dynamic of exclusion in other cities. Rio’s
poor are being shifted to the Northern and Western peripheries while the city
center is being converted into a space for tourism and business. The construction
of Puerto Maravilla dock to accommodate cruise ships is one example, allowing
tourists to visit the Morro da Providencia by cable car in order to avoid the
surrounding favela. Construction works around sporting mega-events are an
opportunity for authorities to implement plans for new city centers and
demarcate “sacrifice zones”, in reference to centrally located poor
neighborhoods earmarked to be moved to the peripheries, its inhabitants
sacrificed to make way for the new plans.
How can we not consider the fight against property
speculation as anti-capitalist struggle? The best way to understand rebellions
of those from below is to recognize that they are conscious of who they are,
where they fit in the system and what they themselves can do to change it.
This is a grouping of urban movements demanding the right to
the city. Rural movements have traditionally been the backbone of popular
movements in Brazil since the colonial period, but now centers of resistance
are becoming concentrated in the cities. The struggle for urban reform carried
out by the main social movements (Free Fare, MST, the World Cup Committees,
CMI, etc.) has many similarities with the rural struggle for land reform. The
latifundista (large farms) system and agribusiness are to the countryside what
spatial segregation and real estate speculation are to the city.
Two aspects should be highlighted. Firstly, these are new
kinds of movements, formed during the period the Worker’s Party (PT) came to
power, are confronting a new configuration of state power. The new form of
state power is an alliance between PT leadership and the Brazilian bourgeoisie,
who share not only excellent relations, but also the same national project and
global perspective. Secondly, a group of high-ranking trade unionists have
entered the financial sector through management of pension funds and control of
the BNDES, the largest development bank in the world. (Zibechi, 2012c)
Governments have changed how they deal with protest and
social movements. Recent struggles in Brazil, from resistance to the Belo Monte
hydroelectric dam to the campaign for free transport and against mega events,
are coming up against a different form of governance. With the apparent decline
in the level of poverty in Brazil today, a less obvious form of inequality
remains which cannot be measured quantitatively. Spatial, racial, class,
gender, and generational segregation is not seen as part of the overall
systemic oppression. Sometimes massive rebellions are necessary to break the everyday
routines that hide oppression.
Brazil’s new configuration of power uses disproportional
force against the social movements. On 24 June, the Special Police Operations
Battalion (BOPE) entered the Complexo da Maré favelas – the most heavily
populated favela complex in the city – with guns blazing. Nine people were
killed, including one policeman. Despite this, demonstrations convened by the
official trade unions two weeks later failed to mention the Maré slaughter or
police brutality in their long list of demands. As journalist Eliane Brum
points out: “Brazil will not change while the middle class feels more for the
wounded of São Paulo than the dead of da Maré,” and points out that while the
police use rubber bullets to injure in the city center, they use live
ammunition to kill in the favelas. (Blum, 2013)
A new political culture. When a new political culture
emerges it needs to differentiate itself from the hegemonic culture that went
before it. In this case, it seems clear that the modes of struggle and
organization created towards the end of the dictatorship with the formation of
the CUT trade union and the Worker’s Party no longer correspond to the needs of
current anti-systemic struggles. We recall that the riots of 2003 and 2004, and
the foundation of the MPL in 2005, flatly rejected the traditional bureaucratic
culture and instead emphasized horizontalism, which is to say, collective
leadership, consensus to avoid the consolidation of majorities, and autonomy
from state and party.
Until now, the social organizations shaped by this political
culture have maintained their distance from the mainstream sector of the labor
movement but collaborate with the more militant trade union factions, as well
as other social organizations with different organizational patterns and
praxis. Many of the new urban groups have found inspiration in Brazil’s
principle organization of resistance, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST,
known as Sem Terra), respecting their deep experience and adapting some of the
MST’s forms of struggle to the urban environment. The main difference between
these two political cultures is found in their form of organizing, the MST’s
top-down structure contrasting with the urban movement’s horizontalism.
Nevertheless, the MST and the new urban movements could
coalesce in the coming years if both can work together on concrete struggles,
as has already happened in some campaigns. It would represent a decisive step
forward for political and social struggle in Brazil, and offers a positive
incentive for other social movements around the continent. The approximation of
Brazil’s two main emancipatory movements — rural and urban — would most likely
lead to a qualitative leap in Latin America’s anti-systemic struggles.
Notes:
i. A calculation of work minutes needed to pay for a bus ticket
based on the average salary in twelve cities of the world, places São Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro as the most expensive cities for transport: 13.9 and 12 minutes
of work respectively compared to 5.5 in Madrid, 6.3 in New York, 6.2 in Paris
and 1.4 in Buenos Aires (Folha de São Paulo, 2013).
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