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The editorial team of Em Pauta: teoria social e realidade contemporanea --the journal of the Faculdade de Servico Social at UERJ--presents its 37th issue, which opens 2016's volume XIV with the theme Social Work, Labor, and Social Struggle.

When this issue's edition process was closing, the coup that ousted Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil was consummated. A turbulent period announces itself, of violent counter-reformation, greater repression of social movements, and a reactionary escalation of hate and intolerance to any sign of affirmation of the diversity of social life. Removal or violation of rights, dismantling of what is left of public education and health policies, undoing of our still incipient experiences in social security, direct attacks on labor rights, all compose our present time and near horizon. Despite never having had a true welfare state, we move towards the full implementation of what Francisco de Oliveira once defined as the "ill fare state." Tough years lie ahead.

The centuries-old class hatred, harbored especially by the middle class, drives the government coup. Its goal is to exchange current representatives with more reactionary ones stripped of any promises of "class reconciliation," the main characteristic of the PT administration. The coup is about a new proposal for class and state, committed to implementing fiscal adjustment, applying counter-reformation, suppressing and undermining social movements with police force and media support, all to the degree demanded by the crisis in Brazilian capitalism.

On a local scale, the state of Rio de Janeiro, run by the same oligarchs that are now in control of federal power, seems to be a laboratory for the administration model Michel Temer's PMDB is offering to the country. After years of squandering away public property and the exchequer through aggressive financing and subsidy policies to fractions of capital, also enabling the enrichment and reproduction of political elites who have taken turns in power for decades, the result is the financial and political-administrative collapse of Rio de Janeiro. In the face of an imminent crisis, public health and education suffer the consequences of long under financed institutions, their situation aggravated since 2015. UERJ stands out for its resistance and denunciation practices, recently restated during the five-month-long student and worker strike. The present issue of Em Pauta Journal was planned and finalized in this confrontational context of precarious labor conditions and relations, lacking institutional operating conditions for routine activities in teaching, research, extension, and Pedro Ernesto University Hospital and Polyclinic Piquet Carneiro healthcare services. Just as #UERJRESISTS, Em Pauta Journal also has the challenge of going through this conjuncture of institutional and political crises, at local and national levels, reaffirming its values, its democratic and academic commitment to society, the profession of social work, and the production of critical knowledge in a socially referenced manner. The editorial board believes that, against the historical context of our country and our state, mobilization and organization of the working class are demands of our times, as well as the task of theoretical and practical critical reflection. This issue of our journal is part of this task. So we move next to this issue's presentation.

The articles that are part of the thematic dossier Social Work, Labor, and Social Struggle can be presented as two thematic groups. In the first segment of three articles, there are reflections approaching from different angles and dialogues the triad labor-domination-structural crisis of capital, from readings and discussions of contemporary and classic Marxist works and authors.

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