2020

political film guide

By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO* A selection of films on themes such as dictatorship, coups, resistance, agrarian reform, from Brazil and also from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The 1964 Coup Terra em Transe (1967) – director: Glauber Rocha. Analysis

The path of simplicity

By LEONARDO BOFF: I offer here a method that I call “Meditation of Light: the path of simplicity”. It has a high ancestry in the East and the West. It has to do with the spirit and the entire human body but in

Returning to normal?

By MICHAEL ROBERTS: The capitalist economy was already on a downward growth trajectory and low labor productivity growth. The increase in debt facilitated by the growth of the monetary base will constitute yet another obstacle to

Oxygen is in the streets

By RODRIGO DE FARIA: The streets cannot allow the world to be dominated by violence and hatred of those who suffocated George Floyd, who was begging for his life. Violence”. All he could do was say “I can't breathe” while we looked at him.

Echoes of neoliberal unconsciousness

By EDUARDO DE SÃO THIAGO MARTINS: Eliminatory logic is predominant in the neoliberal world. For one to win in his singularity, there is no other alternative than to eliminate his adversary. 'Either me, or the other'

public sanitation program

By JOÃO FERES JÚNIOR: Bolsonarism is a system supported by communication strategies. It is in this field that we must concentrate our efforts to overcome the two catastrophes.

In defense of public demonstrations

By Leonardo Avritzer: It is possible and recommended to take to the streets responsibly and in moderation, so as not to abandon them in the hands of Bolsonaristas.

How many hands “pushed” Miguel?

By PATRÍCIA MAEDA and JORGE LUIZ SOUTO MAIOR: Black lives matter! And impunity for crimes committed against the integrity of black citizens, including by the State itself, is a decisive factor in the denial of this essential recognition.

The means of necropolitics

By ANA AMÉLIA PENIDO OLIVEIRA and EDUARDO MEI: Confronting the crisis requires exceptional or authoritarian measures and, under the pretext of fighting the pandemic, an exceptional regime is being promoted whose enemy would not be the virus, but the Brazilian people

A smell of rotten perfume

By ANDRÉ MÁRCIO NEVES SOARES: After almost thirty years of apparently solid representative democracy, Brazilian society has turned over the graves (a term, unfortunately, in fashion) of a dark past and put back in power the same centralizing model of the polyarchy of the

the judicial solution

By FÁBIO KONDER COMPARATO: Will the Judiciary be able to take the necessary and urgent constitutional measures to rid us of this calamitous mismanagement?

The Conception

By ALCIR PÉCORA: Commentary on the posthumous book by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga

The unexpected reckoning

By RADHIKA DESAI: The current pandemic will certainly be different from previous ones, but not because it is more lethal (it is not), nor because it is wreaking havoc on financial markets (like most crises of the neoliberal era), but because it is exposing the

Manifesto for João Pedro

By RONALDO TADEU DE SOUZA: We need to put an end to this. The elite and the white, rich, and propertied class will not stop exterminating us and our black children and young people who still have no voice.

Defeat Bolsonaro

By RICARDO GEBRIM:
A Political Front between different organizations is a concept with definition and history in the struggle of the working class. Its design, composition and objectives have to convey a clear message

The penny needs to fall

By RENATO FRANCISQUINI: If we want to avoid a massacre even more terrifying than the one we are witnessing, with around a thousand deaths a day and the despair of families who cannot say goodbye to their loved ones, we need to stop

From neurosis to perversion

By ELEUTÉRIO PRADO: With the advent of neoliberalism, there is an obliteration of the social subject and the transformation of people into mere employees of the system.

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2020

political film guide

By WALNICE NOGUEIRA GALVÃO* A selection of films on themes such as dictatorship, coups, resistance, agrarian reform, from Brazil and also from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The 1964 Coup Terra em Transe (1967) – director: Glauber Rocha. Analysis

The path of simplicity

By LEONARDO BOFF: I offer here a method that I call “Meditation of Light: the path of simplicity”. It has a high ancestry in the East and the West. It has to do with the spirit and the entire human body but in

Returning to normal?

By MICHAEL ROBERTS: The capitalist economy was already on a downward growth trajectory and low labor productivity growth. The increase in debt facilitated by the growth of the monetary base will constitute yet another obstacle to

Oxygen is in the streets

By RODRIGO DE FARIA: The streets cannot allow the world to be dominated by violence and hatred of those who suffocated George Floyd, who was begging for his life. Violence”. All he could do was say “I can't breathe” while we looked at him.

Echoes of neoliberal unconsciousness

By EDUARDO DE SÃO THIAGO MARTINS: Eliminatory logic is predominant in the neoliberal world. For one to win in his singularity, there is no other alternative than to eliminate his adversary. 'Either me, or the other'

public sanitation program

By JOÃO FERES JÚNIOR: Bolsonarism is a system supported by communication strategies. It is in this field that we must concentrate our efforts to overcome the two catastrophes.

In defense of public demonstrations

By Leonardo Avritzer: It is possible and recommended to take to the streets responsibly and in moderation, so as not to abandon them in the hands of Bolsonaristas.

How many hands “pushed” Miguel?

By PATRÍCIA MAEDA and JORGE LUIZ SOUTO MAIOR: Black lives matter! And impunity for crimes committed against the integrity of black citizens, including by the State itself, is a decisive factor in the denial of this essential recognition.

The means of necropolitics

By ANA AMÉLIA PENIDO OLIVEIRA and EDUARDO MEI: Confronting the crisis requires exceptional or authoritarian measures and, under the pretext of fighting the pandemic, an exceptional regime is being promoted whose enemy would not be the virus, but the Brazilian people

A smell of rotten perfume

By ANDRÉ MÁRCIO NEVES SOARES: After almost thirty years of apparently solid representative democracy, Brazilian society has turned over the graves (a term, unfortunately, in fashion) of a dark past and put back in power the same centralizing model of the polyarchy of the

the judicial solution

By FÁBIO KONDER COMPARATO: Will the Judiciary be able to take the necessary and urgent constitutional measures to rid us of this calamitous mismanagement?

The Conception

By ALCIR PÉCORA: Commentary on the posthumous book by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga

The unexpected reckoning

By RADHIKA DESAI: The current pandemic will certainly be different from previous ones, but not because it is more lethal (it is not), nor because it is wreaking havoc on financial markets (like most crises of the neoliberal era), but because it is exposing the

Manifesto for João Pedro

By RONALDO TADEU DE SOUZA: We need to put an end to this. The elite and the white, rich, and propertied class will not stop exterminating us and our black children and young people who still have no voice.

Defeat Bolsonaro

By RICARDO GEBRIM:
A Political Front between different organizations is a concept with definition and history in the struggle of the working class. Its design, composition and objectives have to convey a clear message

The penny needs to fall

By RENATO FRANCISQUINI: If we want to avoid a massacre even more terrifying than the one we are witnessing, with around a thousand deaths a day and the despair of families who cannot say goodbye to their loved ones, we need to stop

From neurosis to perversion

By ELEUTÉRIO PRADO: With the advent of neoliberalism, there is an obliteration of the social subject and the transformation of people into mere employees of the system.

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