Manuela, Sabrina Fernandez and Chaui open the Political Book Salon

Sao Paulo – Daily Debate, Course on Fascism and Authoritarianism, Book Fair with 20% to 50% Discounts. The sixth Political Book Salon, online and free of charge, starts this Friday (24) and runs until October 3. With the participation of 56 publishers, the Salon was organized by Alameda, Anita Garibaldi, Autonomia Literária and Boitempo… The meetings will be attended by intellectuals, writers, journalists and politicians from all over the world. “Brazil and Overcoming Many Crises” is the topic of the debate opening Friday at 6 pm with Sabrina Fernandez, Manuela D’Avila and Marilena Chauy. Then, at 20:00, Slavoj ižek and Vladimir Safatle talk about the “Pandemic and the revival of communism.”

Also confirmed are names such as Aldo Rebelo, Alex Vitale, Ana Maria Prestes, Antonio Martins, Atilio Boron, Breno Altman, Christian Dunker, Kinara Menezes, Edson Teles, Edmilson Costa, Fabio Luis Barbosa, Joana Salem, Joao Carvalho, Joao Quartim de Moraes, Jody Dean, Juliana Fourno. Also Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, Marcio Pochmann, Natalia Urban, Pedro Rossi, Pedro Serrano, Raquel Rolnik, Ricardo Antunes, Rubens Casara, Sergio Amadeu, Taliria Petrone, Valerio Arcari, Wendy Goldman and others.

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Launched in 2015, Boitempo CEO Ivana Jinkings said, The Political Book Salon emerged as a result of the urgency expand or political debate and a place for liberal arts publishers in the country. “Book fairs tend to favor fiction. They are always very popular with foreign guests. It was a meeting of small and few publishers in early 2015. At the beginning we were about 10 years old. We held a small fair with a discussion program. Since then it has been growing. ”

The debate at Salão do Livro Politico will touch on various areas of the humanities and current affairs such as the military in politics, the climate crisis, the covid-19 pandemic, Latin America, the far right, precarious work, neoliberalism, culture war, socialism, and more. Tables will be broadcast by channel Boitempo TV and yes PUC SP no Youtube.

Ivana Jinkings from Boytempo performs at good for everyone

Schedule

September 24 – Friday

18h | Brazil and Overcoming Many Crises with Sabrina Fernandez, Manuela D’Avila and Marilena Chaui.

20h | Pandemic and new invention of communism with Slavoi Zizek and Vladimir Safatle.

September 25 – Saturday

11 am | International: We need to be comrades! Survival is not a political act! with Jody Dean and Christian Dunker.

16h | Does Cuban Socialism Have a Future? with Leonardo Padura, Joana Salem, Valerio Arcari and Breno Altman.

20h | Climate crisis: what does capitalism have to do with it? with Thiago Avila, Raquel Rolnik, Murillo van der Laan and Alseu Castillo.

September 26 – Sunday

11 am | International: What can Soviet feminists teach about family and pandemic conditions? with Wendy Goldman and Flavia Biroli.

16h | How did we get into the biggest crisis in the publishing market? with Jose Castillo, Mariana Bueno, Maria Borin and Lysandre Magon de Almeida.

20h | Rebel South America with Atilio Boron, Ana Maria Prestes, Fabio Luis Barbosa and Natalia Urban.

September 28 – Tuesday

20h | From legitimizing politics to institutionalizing fascism with Aldo Arantes, Pedro Serrano, Alessandra Devulski and Pedro Davoglio.

September 29 – Wednesday

20h | How to return the military to the barracks? with int. Marcelo Pimentel, Joao Quartim, Edson Teles and Eleanor Lucena.

September 30 – Thursday

20h | Popular struggle and political organization with Letícia Parks, Tabata Amaral, Edmilson Costa, Taliria Petrone and Fernando Garcia.

October 1 – Friday

20h | How to grow again after the pandemic crisis with Pedro Rossi, Alexandre Freitas Barbosa, Julian Fourno and Antonio Martins.

October 2 – Saturday

11 am | Internationale: End of Police! with Alex Vitale and Amauri Gonzo.

16h | Parallel world and cultural (and virtual) war of the extreme right with Rubens Casara, Sergio Amadeu, Fabio Palacio, Ismail Xavier and Kinara Menezes.

20h | US vs. China: A New Cold War? with Melissa Kambui, Elias Jabour, João Carvalho and Gabriel Landy.

October 3 – Sunday

16h | The Problem of Armed Forces in Democracy with Perpetua Almeida, Raul Jungman, Aldo Rebelo and Fabio Pannunzio

20h | Uberizing Labor: Class Struggle in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann, Ricardo Antunes, Renata Mielli and Marcio Pochmann.