Processes of removing students that occupied schools in Paraná: The bourgeois ideology of the judiciary and police

Abstract

This article questions and discusses the reasons the judiciary and the police offered in the court’s decision that instructed the removal of students from occupied schools in the Brazilian state of Paraná, considering the decision’s ideological nature. The processes were analyzed in the light of Marxist social theory and the approach of the political economy. The study used bibliographic research and documentary research procedures, resulting from the court’s decision for the removal of the students in favor of a request of the state’s government. The study pointed out that the acts of removing the students from the occupied schools in Paraná, guided by the decisions of specialists representing the bourgeois state, presented an inversion of the real situation. The courts’ decision used, to remove the students by force, the same arguments the high school students used to occupy the building: the right to education. That is, the judiciary and police apparatus transformed the students’ demonstrations and the struggle for the right to education into (dis)obedience and a matter of police force.

Keywords:
Processes of removal; Occupation of schools; Students; Bourgeois ideology; Judiciary and police apparatus