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A financeirização da burocracia sindical no Brasil

Por Alvaro Bianchi e Ruy Braga: Desde a eleição de Lula da Silva, em 2002, a relação do sindicalismo brasileiro com o aparelho de Estado modificou-se radicalmente. Nunca é demais rememorar alguns fatos. Em primeiro lugar, a administração de Lula da Silva preencheu aproximadamente metade dos cargos superiores de direção e assessoramento – cerca de […]

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Que reste-t-il de l’expérience pionnière de Porto Alegre ?

Par Simon Langelier (pour Le Monde Diplomatique): Emblématique du potentiel démocratique des collectivités locales, le budget participatif de Porto Alegre a ouvert la voie à des expériences sociales et politiques jusque-là inédites dans le monde. S’il a montré qu’une autre répartition des pouvoirs entre citoyens et institutions était viable, il doit désormais affronter le risque […]

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Interview: The Olympics and the uprising

By Bob Quellos (socialistworker.org): * As the British government imposes austerity measures on its poor and working-class citizens, it has dumped billions of dollars into the venues and security for the 2012 Games. Only a few miles from Tottenham, the epicenter of the recent London riots, and between the east end of Hackney and the […]

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Urban Struggle for the Right to the City

By RTC: * The right to the city [following Lefebvre] is used here primarily to describe the development of the ‘capitalist city’, its negative effects for its inhabitants and the potential utopias that could be made possible, in contrast to other approaches such as the ‘creative city’ developed by urban theorists like Richard Florida.   * […]

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Brazil’s disappearing favelas

By Dave Zirin: Infrastructure demanded by the sporting world’s most powerful corporate interests render families homeless in Brazil. In Chile, it was called the The Brick. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by “the Chicago Boys” – Chilean exchange students from the University of Chicago. Disciples of the university’s […]

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Land regularisation and civic participation in Brazil

The example of Canoas (Rio Grande do Sul) – By Julie Bédochaud: In the year 2005, nearly 29% of the Brazilian urban population resided illegally in occupied areas, commonly known as favelas (“UNHABITAT, Urban indicators”). While the first favela dates back to the 19th century (Mike DAVIS, Le pire des mondes possibles, La Découverte, 2006), […]

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Brazil’s Golden Age–or Parade of White Elephants?

by COHA Research Associate Augustus Urschel: The 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics Winning the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic bids continues to have both intended and unexpected consequences for this year’s miracle country. On November 28, 2010, Brazilian police and soldiers seized the Complexo do Alemão, a large favela in the Northern […]

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Planning Displacement: The Real Legacy of Major Sporting Events

By Libby Porter and others: [excerpt] (…) In the official narrative ordinary citizens are, quite literally, invisible and Porter explains how this comes about. First, state planners deal in abstractions. This is a world of legacy claims, eminent domain and Compulsory Purchase Inquiries, where displacements are framed as “disruptions” in planning applications. These stories remind […]

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