Crônicas depois do furacão
Argumentos para repensar a esquerda
Hilary Wainwright, coordenadora de vãrias redes internacionais de
pesquisa e ativismo, procurou colocar-se no centro dos acontecimentos,
dando voz a todos os lados da crise que se abateu sobre o PT e o
governo Lula em 2005.
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Este livro, sucesso na Europa, é um convite ao debate politico, que tem como componente central entrevistas com personalidades da esquerda brasileira intelectuais, ativistas, parlamentares, atores de destaque no cenário politico nacional. Hilary Wainwright, coordenadora de vãrias redes internacionais de pesquisa e ativismo, procurou colocar-se no centro dos acontecimentos, dando voz a todos os lados da crise que se abateu sobre o PT e o governo Lula em 2005.
No Olho do Furacão e um livro que não se propõe a dar respostas definitivas. As diversas visões sobre a crise aqui apresentadas suscitam, antes de tudo, a reflexão teórica e a ação cidadã e destacam a necessidade de repensar as formas de ação politica.
"Este rico e diversificado conjunto de reflexões sobre a "crise do PT" vai ser leitura obrigatória para aqueles que querem enfrentar a tarefa de repensar a esquerda - e a política - no Brasil e em outras partes, escapando da complacência e do oportunismo, mas também da amargura nihilista dos nossos sonhos e corações partidos. -- Evelina Dagnino- Professora da UNICAMP
As esquerdas foram derrotadas no seu projeto democrático e popular, ainda em 1989. Esse livro, recolhe reflexões para nos ajudar a compreender porque as esquerdas não conseguiram ter um projeto.E nos conclama para o debate, sobre os verdadeiros desafios políticos e ideológicos desse estágio da luta de classes no Brasil Imprescindível parta toda militância social e de esquerda! -- João Pedro Stédile - Dirigente Nacional doMST
About the authors
Hilary Wainwright
Hilary Wainwright is a leading researcher and writer on the emergence of new forms of democratic accountability within parties, movements and the state. She is the driving force and editor behind Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine, and has documented countless examples of resurgent democratic movements from Brazil to Britain and the lessons they provide for progressive politics.
As well as TNI fellow, she is also Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK and Senior Research Associate at International Centre for Participation Studies', Bradford University. She has also been a visiting Professor and Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles; Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Todai University, Tokyo. Her books include Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Verso/TNI, 2003) and Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right (Blackwell, 1993).
Wainwright founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years, and was convenor of the new economics working group of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly from 1989 to 1994.
Recent publications from Public Services & Democracy
Privatising EuropeThis working paper and infographic provide an overview of a great ‘fire sale’ of public services and national assets across Europe that is providing profits for a few transnational companies but is often fiercely opposed by its citizens. |
Participatory alternatives to privatisationExperience worldwide shows that EC-imposed privatisation on crisis countries will not work. The alternative is not reinforcing the status quo, but using citizen power and labour to reinvigorate public services and democratically transform the state.
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The future of Public Enterprises in Latin America and the WorldAn international seminar in Montevideo, co-organised by TNI and the Uruguayan government, shared the latest learning and innovation by state-owned enterprises across Latin America and affirmed their importance as instruments for economic and social development. |
Something rotten in the ANC stateThe palaces of President Zuma and the massacre of miners at Marikana symbolise how the gulf between rich and poor has grown in the 18 years since the African National Congress came to power in South Africa. Hilary Wainwright reports on how formerly loyal ANC activists are turning against their government |
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