Despite the bombastic declared end of history in the version of liberal democracy and the
capitalist system, the end of ideologies and the class struggle, the supposed consensus of
humanity on human rights and progress as the north of societies and its governments in this
second decade of the twenty-first century, what we witness is the irruption of varied and
novel processes of political action that have shaken the world, such as the Arab Spring, the
Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of Ferguson against police violence in the United States,
environmental protests in Turkey, Chilean students, Colombian peasants and the Free Pass
Movement in Brazil. Although their contexts and motivations are varied, each one of them
represented moments of strong tension within their countries, as a result of the clashes of
violence and the struggle of speeches. In this international context of social unrest, the
present investigation, centered on the Brazilian case, forms part of the demonstrations of
June 2013 that triggered the increase in the passage of public transport in several cities,
protests that had high doses of violence and repression, with the use not only of the
truculence of armed bodies destined to preserve public order, but also of the judicial system,
government speeches, mass media, among others. Concomitant with the occupation of forces
in the streets between demonstrators and institutional armed forces, the symbolic struggle
was fought, the clash of speeches, on the one hand, legitimizing discourses of the police
order and the legitimate use of force used for its preservation, for the another, discourses
that question the police order that resituate the force used by the armed bodies intended to
preserve public order in the context of domination, to strip it of its legitimacy and justify its
actions in response to institutional violence.
From the perspective of the Critical Analysis of the Discourse we will analyze the editorials of
the newspapers O Liberal and Folha de São Paulo that directly or indirectly, report the police
violence against the demonstrators. The reflection on the texts in context will be based on
the analysis of one category and two relations, with respect to the first one, the (de)
construction of the "other" will be observed through the revision of the lexicon used by the
newspapers, to describe the manifestations and demonstrators, as well as the force deployed
by the armed forces responsible for controlling the June demonstrations in the cities of
Belém and São Paulo, if it is considered violence or law enforcement, and the justification or
condemnation of it . As for relations, the nexus between the discourses and the intensity of
the force exerted for the control of the manifestations, and between the discourses and
relations of power produced in that context, will be analyzed.
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