Os desafios das tarefas democráticas da esquerda brasileira no contexto da luta anticapitalista do século XX: a luta pela reestatização da Coelce

Abstract

This work is guided by the following thematic axes: the investigation of the privatization of Companhia Energética do Ceará - COELCE and its consequences for the working class of Ceará in the context of the privatization process in Brazil between 1994 and 19985. The other axis is the analysis of the contradictions and limits of discourse on the current conception of national autonomy the Brazilian Left and its relationship with the campaign for the reestablishment of COELCE by the popular movements of Ceará. The proposal to criticize this discourse is not based on the denial of the need to fight for national sovereignty, nor in the denial of the re-privatization of COELCE as a slogan for popular movements of Ceará, but in understanding how this slogan can develop for an emancipatory struggle, insofar as it can relate simultaneously to the struggle for workers' immediate needs (in view of the increase in the energy tariff after privatization) and the struggle for a new energy matrix (which is part of the struggle for national sovereignty).