Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests - TopicsExpress



          

Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger for the escalating protests was an increase in bus fares, which was subsequently rolled back in an attempt to dissipate social unrest. Nonetheless, Thursday saw somewhere between one and two million people take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities across the country, pressing demands for greater investment in education and health care and venting popular anger over the billions being lavished on World Cup stadiums at the expense of the people. In many instances, demonstrators were met with brutal repression, including tear gas, rubber bullets and cavalry charges.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 03:13:50 +0000

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