Eliminating the councils is yet another blow to democracy.

Bolsonaro's decree that eliminates most Public Policy Councils has provoked a strong negative reaction from civil society. For the opposition, this anti-democratic measure is consistent with the repressive line of attacks this misgovernment has carried out against labor unions and social movements.

By reducing the number of councils foreseen by the National Participation Policy approved by President Dilma in 2014 from 700 to less than 50, Bolsonaro intends to more easily extinguish social rights, just as the coup-plotter Temer did with labor rights. In this way, the general project of the reactionary elite advances: the institution of savage capitalism, without social checks and balances, where the only law is that which favors capital.

For Bolsonaro, the Federal Constitution represents no impediment when it comes to favoring businesses and taking away workers' rights. Article 10 of the Constitution states: "The participation of workers and employers in the collegiate bodies of public agencies where their professional or social security interests are the subject of discussion and deliberation is guaranteed." Despite this, the president abolished the Social Security Appeals Council (CRPS) and the Labor Relations Council (CRT), among many others.

By abolishing the National Council for the Eradication of Slave Labor (CONATRAE), Bolsonaro intends to enslave the working class. The same can be said regarding child labor, with the extinction of the National Commission for the Eradication of Child Labor (CONAETI).

He clearly demonstrates contempt for human rights by abolishing the National Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CONADE) and the National Council for the Rights of the Elderly (CNDI), as well as the National Council for Literacy and Education of Young People and Adults (CNAEJA).

The elimination of labor and social rights and the end of unions and popular councils is causing Brazil to revert to 19th-century labor relations, when capitalism brutally exploited workers, women, and children in mines and factories.

But Brazilian workers and their labor and party organizations, through their social and identity movements, will not allow Bolsonaro to impose this absurd social regression on our people. The PT (Workers' Party) caucus in the Chamber of Deputies has already presented two draft legislative decrees (PDL) to block the president's decrees. Furthermore, the Workers' Party, with its caucuses in the Chamber and the Senate, will take legal action before the Supreme Federal Court against the blatant unconstitutionality of this presidential decree.

Every setback, every step taken towards a past where the people had no rights, we will put all our strength into always seeking to make the population aware of the enormous mistake that was the election of this enemy of democracy, of workers, of women, of black and indigenous populations and of minorities.

Fortunately, public awareness, especially regarding the end of their retirement benefits, represented in practice by this disastrous pension reform, is already beginning to show in all opinion polls and in the large demonstrations that have recently taken place.

The certainty about Bolsonaro's misrule is being complemented by the hope for the return of the democratic rule of law and also for the liberation of the leader of the Brazilian people, former president Lula, a political prisoner, without evidence, so that he could not be a presidential candidate in 2018.