Lula's challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right. Leia o artigo completo em inglês aqui. Versão traduzida para o português por Caroline Rodrigues disponível abaixo, com autorização do

Livro organizado “Proletários de todos os países, uni-vos!” Esta edição de O manifesto comunista, uma das obras mais importantes da filosofia política já escritos, contém prefácio, preparação e notas da socióloga Sabrina Fernandes. Escrito há quase 200 anos, O manifesto comunista, de Karl Marx

Por S. FERNANDES, E. GUDYNAS, M. LÖWY Y R. RAMÍREZ GALLEGOS Pese a los avances en materia de redistribución de la renta, la base productiva sobre la que los gobiernos progresistas han asentado sus políticas coarta la posibilidad de avanzar en

Por Claudia Horn e Sabrina Fernandes Em inglês e português Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is trying to tone down his well-deserved reputation as a climate change denier. But the new proposals from his government serve the same purpose of blocking the radical

One of the main challenges for understanding the concept of authoritarianism is the many different meanings it has. Already in the 1970s, Brazilian sociologist and political militant Florestan Fernandes analysed the ambiguity of the concept of authoritarianism and its use

Depuis 2013 au Brésil, les grandes manifestations ont été surtout convoquées et utilisées par la droite, notamment celles qui ont exigé la destitution de la présidente Dilma Rousseff en 2016. Par la suite, la situation a un peu évolué. Par

Prefácio do livro “O ecossocialismo de Karl Marx” de Kohei Saito por Sabrina Fernandes para a Editora Boitempo, 2021 Propor que exista um ecossocialismo em Karl Marx pode soar estranho e até mesmo anacrônico. Como corrente política marxista, o ecossocialismo passou a

Una entevista a:MICHAEL LÖWYTRADUCCIÓN: VALENTÍN HUARTE El fascismo y la crisis ecológica se recrudecen en todo el mundo. En esta entrevista, el militante y pensador ecosocialista Michael Löwy nos explica cómo la convergencia de fuerzas en el campo anticapitalista podría ayudarnos

Uma entrevista com Michael Löwy O fascismo e a crise ecológica estão se acirrando ao redor do mundo. O militante e pensador ecossocialista, Michael Löwy, aponta como as lutas convergentes dentro do campo anticapitalista podem construir a força necessária para superar

Livro autoral Se quiser mudar o mundo, a hora é agora!Este é um livro para quem quer mudar o mundo. Para quem sente que está tudo de pernas para o ar. Para quem se cansou de só ouvir notícias ruins e

Estamos en una lucha a contrarreloj contra el cambio climático. Para frenarlo, es necesario luchar por otro tipo de cambio. Hay que cambiar el sistema en que vivimos, pero esta no es una tarea simple. No basta la posición anticapitalista

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s current president, is known internationally for his far-right stances. He supports loosening gun control and frequently rants against human rights and “political correctness”. His motto of “God above all” pleases the more fundamentalist sectors of his evangelical

O século XXI é um século de crise. O colapso econômico capitalista se encaixa com a desigualdade calamitosa, as guerras internacionais e civis impulsionam o desalojamento e a catástrofe humanitária, a xenofobia se infiltra nas leis e o crescente declínio

The 21st century is a century of crisis. Capitalist economic collapse dovetails with dire inequality, international and civil wars drive displacement and humanitarian catastrophe, xenophobia creeps into laws, and rising biodiversity loss imperils the planet’s equilibrium. Climate change threatens to

Livro autoral O título do livro Sintomas Mórbidos: A encruzilhada da esquerda brasileira, escrito pela socióloga, feminista e uma das youtubers mais radicais à esquerda nas redes, Sabrina Fernandes, remete ao interregno pensado pelo revolucionário italiano Antonio Gramsci na famosa passagem do

Just a couple of months ago, commentators were complaining that Jair Bolsonaro was not doing much with his presidency. The Brazilian president, recovering from a surgery related to the knife wound he sustained during last year’s campaign, seemed a bit off, even

Por Thiago Ávila e Sabrina Fernandes A sociedade do século 21 se encontra diante de um grande desafio histórico. Coube a nós lutar a grande batalha de nosso tempo: enfrentar um sistema que, com uma sede insaciável de lucro e acumulação,

With Alex Houchuli and Benjamin Fogel. In Brazil’s election this weekend, democracy itself is at stake. Far-right Jair Bolsonaro leads the first-round polls by ten points. In simulations of a second-round runoff, Bolsonaro is neck-and-neck with the Workers Party’s (PT) Fernando Haddad, former president

An interview with Sônia Guajajara Em inglês e português 518 years ago, the territory now known as Brazil was invaded by a Portuguese fleet and colonized. Many of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the land died from diseases, were killed, or enslaved.

As the last vote on the Lula appeal came in, there was no surprise that the former president of Brazil would have his sentence upheld while the markets celebrated, with São Paulo’s stock exchange at an all-time high. What was surprising is that

Brazil’s right wing has gotten ahead through a series of dirty tricks. The 2015 impeachment of Workers Party (PT) president Dilma Rousseff, pushed through despite the absence of any “crime of responsibility,” is the most notorious example. Now, through similarly slick manuevers,

The Brazilian Workers’ Party’s (PT) seemed to be a shining example of how to seize power and govern in the interest of working people. Lula’s victory in 2002 and reelection in 2006 were often hailed as a triumph of pragmatic

Lately, it’s been common to say that the “right has come out of the closet” in Brazil. More precisely, the authoritarian, fascist right, has done so and very publicly for that matter. The revolutionary potential of June 2013 [Ed.: see Bullet No.

Brazil’s new interim president Michel Temer’s motto seems to be: “Injure all at once, and perhaps, one day, return benefits little by little.” Existing social gains, especially those won by the Workers’ Party (PT), are already being eroded. His government

Dilma Rousseff will certainly tell you that it is not easy to be the president of Brazil; it never is, but nowadays even more so. For a significant share of 2015 her government has been engulfed in a corruption scandal involving the

(artigo autoral reproduzido do antigo site Brasilem5) por Sabrina Fernandes Uma jogada diferente com o "marxismo científico" O filósofo marxista Leszek Kolakowski formula a Esquerda como uma característica, e assim argumenta que nenhuma organização poderá encorpá-la em totalidade, já que toda característica necessita

In a recent essay (see “Brazil: The Débâcle of the PT”), Alfredo Saad-Filho writes of the dilemmas the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) now faces in Brazil.His analysis helps decipher some of the dynamics that have led to the

Marina Silva is a veteran in Brazilian politics. Minister of the environment in the Lula administration, she resigned in 2008, switched from the Workers’ Party (PT) to the Green Party (PV) — not uncommon in Brazilian parliamentary politics — and ran

Many labour unions are either in the process of negotiating with their respective employers (mostly municipal, state, or federal governments) in Brazil, while others are actively on strike. These include federal workers from the government bureaucracy, school teachers, city staff,

If 2013 put popular protests back into the historical map of Brazil, 2014 is certainly prone to be even more essential for asserting the lasting power of contestation by the radical Left. It was already a special year because of