Youth protests and worker strikes show mounting social opposition in Brazil
Brazil experienced a second weekend in a row of demonstrations against police violence, racism and the government of the fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro. Tens of thousands of people, mostly young, took to the streets in every region and practically every state in the country.
In São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and Brasília the demonstrations were attended by thousands of people. In other capitals and several smaller cities, protests occurred simultaneously and included hundreds of people.
Growing numbers of Brazilian youth and workers see their adherence to the international wave of protests driven by the police assassination of George Floyd as a political path to respond to the intolerable Bolsonaro administration.
The political establishment responded by brutally repressing these protests. Although they have not yet summoned the National Guard, as proposed by Bolsonaro, the governors of all the bourgeois parties have mobilized the police apparatus in a war-like crackdown against the demonstrators.
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he'd do it in a second.
The super white, European descended oligarchs have been agitating for a return to the military dictatorship for years. They can't stand sharing the national income (including taxes paid by the working classes) with the poor, the workers.
They want to live off the labor of the desperately poor, downtrodden darker Brazilians.
As soon as the "right" moment presents itself, like demonstrations getting too loud, he'll be off to the races. Remember his campaign was based on real "law and order" control of the poor, and his constant posture for camera men/women was holding his baby hands in the shooting position, mimicking guns, which got a joyous response from his racist supporters.
Reminds a person of Trump's white power sign.
