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The objective of this paper is to investigate the limits of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, in its first 180 days. The methodology used is bibliographic survey, to find gaps in the field of social sciences, and a discourse analysis, in a Marxist sense. The results indicate two types of problems: an organic, which is related to the condition of a country of dependent capitalism, which has a form of autocratic domination, which negatively influences public health; the other is the Bolsonaro's government and its inertia in dealing with the health crisis. Also, the pandemic develops unevenly, reaching mostly the poorest and blacks / browns, showing the class character of the pandemic in Brazil. Finally, we criticize the limits of the approaches that defend the return of the Keynesian State as a solution to the crisis of neoliberalism that the coronavirus opens up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the Escola Sem Partido Bill (PL 7.180/2014) that is being processed in the Chamber of Deputies since 2014 and whose purpose is to end an alleged ideological indoctrination to which students are presumably subjected to in school. Therefore, we intend to discuss issues such as the existence of Ideology in teaching and what kind of ideology one wants to extinguish with such a project. Aspects that concern the freedom and autonomy of schools, students and teachers, will also be addressed, as well as the way this project would work and its possible implications. The method of analysis applied is the Michel Pêcheux’s French Discourse Analysis (DA), which consists of a theoretical-analytical device and involves three distinct areas: Linguistics, Psychoanalysis, and the Historical Materialism. We intend to elucidate terms belonging to this theory so that we can start with the analysis of the said bill’s text, as well as the discourses of its counterproposals: the Escola Livre bill (PL 6.005/2016) and the Política Nacional de Liberdade para Aprender e Ensinar bill (PL 10.997/2018), in order to verify how these projects that relate to the same theme but have distinct objectives mean in Brazil today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]