Gabeira: PT that resists judgment gets burned.

247 - In his article this week, published in Estado de S. Paulo, journalist Fernando Gabeira delivers new blows to the individuals convicted in Criminal Action 470 and to those who argue that the PT (Workers' Party) should show solidarity with the defendants. Read below:

The new year within you - FERNANDO GABEIRA

O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/01

"It is within you that the New Year slumbers and waits, as it always has," says the TV advertisement, using a line from the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who would have turned 100 in 2012. The ad uses the last verse of the poem "New Year's Recipe."

I accept the poet's guidance and agree with him when he says that there's no need to make lists of good intentions or foolishly believe that, by decree of hope, things will change and everything will be clear starting in January. There's something new from Drummond here. He wrote: "On the phone, you wasted a lot, a very lot of time sowing."

Today, the telephone is a work tool. But in airports, streets, and roads, we lose a lot of time that could be used for sowing seeds. In airports, there's waiting in the lobby, on the buses that take us on board, and in the seats before the plane takes off. In the streets of almost every major Brazilian city, the traffic is hellish. I see no hope on the horizon. The government continues to exempt the car industry and encourage sales in 70 installments.

In my line of work, the best guide isn't a poet, but a football coach. Gentil Cardoso used to say: "He who doesn't move doesn't get paid." It's always possible to mitigate the distance by using a bike or scooter for leisure and household chores. But with heavy equipment on my back, without a car or plane, I can't move around and receive the ball. It's almost never possible to use an airport lounge for work. The boarding gates are constantly changing. You have to stop and leave quickly so as not to miss your flight.

These are the laments of a worker. Who knows, maybe the PT (Workers' Party) doesn't take them into account, despite me always being on the move in service of the coup-mongering media, the reactionary elite, in short, all those villains who reappear every time their comrades are caught up in yet another scandal.

In favor of the government, regarding the issue of mobility, I recall that Dilma decided to privatize two airports and promised to build 18 regional ones. If everything goes well, we still won't be able to reap the benefits this year. The decisions were so slow, it's been so long, that the growing demand exposes the vulnerability of the airports.

Regarding automobiles, my feeling is that Dilma is fostering the utopia of one car for every person. In the near future, many more people will understand how unsustainable this policy is. The streets teach. Dilma hasn't frequented them in these two years.

The comrades are moving towards an economic model that emphasizes the role of the State, the creation of state-owned companies, and the formation of a sector heavily supported by the BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank). Economic discussion is central at the moment. The PT (Workers' Party) won the elections, the government has majority support, and it is legitimate for them to try their own path. The fact is that the economy did not grow last year. Is this path wrong? Is it a misinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis? This is the most frequent debate. But there is another, equally essential one: which companies is the BNDES financing and under what conditions?

Based on the fact that the money is public, the Public Prosecutor's Office has already asked this question, and BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) stated that such data is confidential. And what about the government's data access law? Didn't it take hold? How can we have an overview of this economic complex built with public funding without knowing where and how much of the resources are going?

Dilma has always associated her image with an interest in energy. But since she was called the mother of the PAC (Growth Acceleration Program) during the campaign, perhaps she has shifted her roles and feels like a mother where she was a technician. Energy in Brazil is expensive. The intense heat has increased consumption in the Southeast by 8%. A price reduction will be a relief for everyone. From an electoral point of view, lowering energy prices is great for the government. But it doesn't have to be a disaster for those who criticize her tactics. She just needs to advocate for a careful reduction, especially in this context.

Concerned with resisting the Mensalão trial, the comrades failed to realize that the lights have been going out here and there, that the reservoirs are low, and that the actual rainfall will be less than expected. A power struggle at this moment could be bad for everyone. Popularity justifies it. But popularity, with all that it implies, is like a wine that should be consumed in moderation.

In the political sphere, the broad sectors of the PT (Workers' Party) that resist the Mensalão trial are burning bridges. They resemble those samba school leaders who can't accept the jury's verdict and argue even after the stage has been dismantled. Electoral comfort encourages amateurish assessments of the post-Mensalão political landscape. José Dirceu appears with a raised fist in a newspaper photo. He sees Mensalão as a link in the history of the left's struggles. The raised fist was the salute of communists. An African-American athlete raised it upon winning the Olympics. The gesture was used against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Mensalão doesn't belong to the history of the left's struggles, but to its extensive litany of errors. Regardless of one's judgment on communism, everyone knows the difference between La Pasionária and Delúbio Soares.

Genoino is going to Congress, where he can do nothing during the months he awaits the Supreme Court's decision on appeals. There are neither the political nor the psychological conditions for it. Yet he accepts a public position that pays R$136 per month. It's as if some fish in the political ocean no longer respect the moment to submerge.

Drummond is right: awaken the new year that slumbers within you, especially since in the higher spheres the sleep is still deep.

The year ended with the Speaker of the House, Marco Maia, embodying the end of the world, confronting the Supreme Court. He is a product of the intricate mechanisms of discipline and loyalty within the Workers' Party (PT). He dreams of being the director of a football club. Not to say that I am being negative towards my colleagues, I at least support this dream, depending, of course, on the club chosen.

The Chinese speak of interesting times as those marked by social upheaval, turmoil, and revolutions. I hope for funny times, embracing humor in all its dimensions, including the painful ones.