IN THE STREETS AND IN THE NETWORKS: THE POLITICAL ACTION OF THE FREE BRAZIL MOVEMENT AND THE REORGANIZATION OF THE NEW BRAZILIAN RIGHT IN THE DISPUTE OF HEGEMONY
Free Brazil Movement; Right; Political Action; Passive Revolution; Hegemony.
The general objective of this research is to investigate the political action of the Free Brazil Movement (MBL) in the context of right-wing reorganization in Brazil and the hegemonic disputes that put an end to the cycle of PT governments. The MBL was created after the mobilizations of June 2013, as a brand or group Students For Freedom (EPL), a Brazilian version of Students For Liberty (SFL). The organization is noted as the main articulator of the protests held by the right between 2014 e 2016 that led to a legal-media-parliamentary coup, dismissing President Dilma Rousseff and providing the arrival of the ultra-right to power, in 2018. As a methodology, the study proposes to make a content analysis, examining the data collected from the survey of the news published by the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de São Paulo, from 2014 to 2016, on the protests called by the opposition to the then Dilma government. The second empirical material consists of the analysis of posts collected from the MBL Facebook page, from 2014 to 2018. To understand the political, social and economic context, the research uses the concept of passive revolution (GRAMSCI, 2007) as an interpretative key to understand the modernization of the Brazilian state (AGGIO, 1998; COUTINHO, 1988; DREIFUSS, 1986; and VIANNA, 1998), since the outputs "from the top", without popular participation, and the process of "keeping-changing" are recurrent in Brazilian historiography, including in the interpretation for the cycle of PT governments (VIANNA, 2011; OLIVEIRA, 2010; COUTINHO, 2010; SINGER, 2012; BIANCHI, 2017). Moreover, the formation of the right in Brazil accompanies the long Brazilian passive revolution, since the right has always been associated with the elites in power (SADER, 1995). Among the results, it can be observed that the "new right" of the 2000s promoted an update of political action, context in which the MBL arises. With this, it is perceived that the group acts both "on the streets", executing a mobilization and political staging, as well as "on the social networks" online, executing the "permanent invention of the enemy".