Bolsonaro promotes the dictatorship of the rich.

He never hid the fact that he governs for the rich. Ever since he realized he could and would gain the support of big business, he chose an ultra-neoliberal economy minister to secure that support. The concept that Guedes conveyed to him is that the more investments by big business are facilitated, the more the economy grows and the more the country's problems are solved.

Since taking office, he has increasingly facilitated conditions for investment, with lower taxes, fewer state regulations, fewer rights for workers, more subsidized loans for large businesses, and the privatization of public assets at bargain-basement prices. But there is no investment; the economy entered a recession even before the pandemic; capital is circulating in financial speculation, which creates no goods or jobs. And capital has begun to flee the country.

Conversely, despite all the atrocities he commits and says as president, big business owners have never withdrawn their support for the government, turning a blind eye to the destruction of the country and the loss of Brazil's prestige in the world.

Never before has the super-exploitation of workers been so high. Unemployment has once again become structural and permanent. Workers submit to any job, for any pay, just to have some income, however meager it may be. The jobs that are growing are those without formal employment contracts, without any rights, and in the most precarious conditions.  

Now, with the pandemic, his concern is with the economy and, in particular, with the wealthiest. He returns to that despicable refrain of "do they want rights or jobs?" and, instead of protecting the most vulnerable, he turns to further increasing the profits of the rich, even in the midst of the crisis, with this provisional measure that promotes the dictatorship of the wealthy. Even before the pandemic, he never worried about unemployment; now he pretends to prioritize the economy and not people's health, in order to defend workers' jobs. In this, as in everything else, he is a charlatan.

Workers, unable to work due to business closures and forced to stay home as a result of pandemic-related preventative measures, would now have their salaries cut for four months. This is an arbitrary, dictatorial measure that takes effect immediately, unless Congress rejects it. But if there is no vote, and as long as there isn't, the measure remains in effect.

That is, workers, surviving on their meager wages, now having to bear the costs of protecting their families from the pandemic, would have to go without their salary – which is not savings, but a source for basic daily expenses such as food, health, and rent – ​​for four months. A measure that doesn't even try to disguise its defense of employers, suspending their spending on salaries while simultaneously reducing the workers' ability to survive.

It is up to Congress to act immediately to prevent this dictatorial measure in favor of the rich and against the poor. The presidents of the Chamber and the Senate, who are always quick to say that no measure that creates more taxes, for example, will be approved, have so far remained silent. They prefer not to contradict the big businessmen who finance their campaigns, rather than attend to the needs of the working class. Will the parliamentarians resign themselves to this measure that negatively affects the vast majority of workers and their families?

  A provisional measure that exposes the role of the liberal state as a dictatorship of the ruling classes against the majority of the population. As an instrument of the super-exploitation of workers and the exponential increase in capital accumulation. Yet another measure by which Bolsonaro shows that he governs for the rich and against the poor. A measure that exacerbates the class struggle and calls for the mobilization of resistance from millions of Brazilian workers.