Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2012)
O ESTADO BURGUÊS NO BRASIL SOBSUSPEITA: democracia e participação política no momento atual
Abstract
The article presents the challenges of social movements in Brazil to neo-Iiberal policy of criminalizing the participation of social movements that denounce the authoritarian state, the precarious Iiving conditions and violence and work directly with leaders of these movements. ln the XXI century, we see the revival of some politicai movements which challenge the neo-authoritarianism and exercise their right of politicai participation beyond the institutionalized spaces. The reaction from the state for their demonstrations indicate that the fundamental right of freedom of expression and organization is seriously threatened which demands from intellectuals and activists not only a theoretical reflexion, but, essentially, the denouncement against the threat of that right so hardly conquered by the workers' movement.
