Austeridade e fascismo: as marchas de junho em Uberlândia no ano de 2013

Abstract

This Final Paper aims to analyze, from the perspective of the "June Marches" of 2013—especially in Uberlândia—the State's repressive action against the protests, seeking the core actions and motives of certain government reactions, under economic, political, and legal epistemologies. It denounces how the State procedurally acted under the pretense of safeguarding austerity policies, structurally undermining popular mobilization and organization through an artificial State default. This is transfigured into a liberal bureaucratic administration aiming to reduce the public budget via cuts in Health and Education spending. To this end, headlines from two relevant newspapers of the period were collected as sources, enabling triangulation of the logic behind the narratives in those periodicals. To execute an empirical methodology, a tripartite analysis of events is provided, focusing on the chain of events by examining: protesters and their demands, police actions and reactions to the acts, and finally, the stance of executive public bodies. Thus, it denounces the Uberlândia Municipal Prefecture's moves to negotiate, segregate, undermine, and overpower any class-based or union struggles. Presenting austerity as essentially a class control tool in the present day.