Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled. “Talk: Anarchism and the Struggle for Zero Fare Transportation in Brazil”

In this talk, given at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair 2025, Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled, coordinators of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) and militants of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) from Brazil, discuss anarchism and the Brazilian struggles for public and zero fare transportation. The talk begin with an innovative and in-depth discussion of the concept of anarchism, based on Corrêa’s book “Black Flag,” which has recently been translated and published in several countries around the world. Afterward, the talk revisit the context of the resurgence of anarchist militancy in Brazil after the military dictatorship, which lasted until 1985. Finally, based on Khaled’s theoretical and practical contributions, including his book “From Student Free Fare to Zero Fare” the talk discuss the struggles for public transportation in Brazil, which reached their peak during the “June Journeys” of 2013, when the Zero Fare agenda for transportaion became nationalized. Since then, Brazil have experienced a cycle of growth in the number of free public transportation experiences, making the country with the highest number of Zero Fare cities in the world. The talk end by proposing a reflection on the role of anarchists in this context and how anarchist militancy can drive the struggles for Zero Fare and the Right to the City and, with this, expand its capacity to build mass organization and self-managed popular power.

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