User:Anabpelicioni/sandbox2

The Perseu Abramo Foundation (FPA) is a think thank created by the Brazilians Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT). The aim is to build a space outside the party where people could develop ideas, and political and ideological reflections, have political debates, as well as the development of studies and research with a plurality of different opinions. It is named after the journalist, sociologist and professor Perseu Abramo.

Creation history
The Foundation was instituted by the Workers' Party National Directory, located in São Paulo’s city centre, on May 5th, 1996. It was the Party’s second attempt at creating an institution. The first one is the extinguished Wilson Pinheiro Foundation, created in 1981 and closed in 1990, due to economic instability and. It was named after Wilson Pinheiro, an important activist in the fight for protecting the Amazon Rainforest.

Even with the end of this institution, the idea of creating a space where people could work on their political ideas and reflections continued at the head of the Party’s leadership. The later creation of a permanent political party funding, by the article 38 of Political Party's Law (Law 9.096 of September 19th, 1995) allowed the development of the idea. The item IV of art. 44 disposes that, at least 20% of the fund allocated to parties, would be applied to the creation and maintenance of an institute or research foundation or political education.

Perseu Abramo and the national secretariat of the party and dedicated his last months of life to the development of studies and elaboration of all the basic documents that were necessary for the construction of the foundation. He also did a pre-project of what would be the foundation’s working lines.

The choice of creating a foundation was taken in order to guarantee the rigour and transparency of acts and decisions, given that all foundations are supervised and have to report to the Brazilian Public Ministery. As soon as the National Directory of the Worker’s Party had decided to create this organ as a foundation, a group of people was chosen to continue Perseu’s preliminary studies to define the legal basis, objectives and programs that would be part of the newly created foundation. The two documents prepared for this purpose: one that defined the “Elements for a work plan” and the other that contained the Foundation's statutes were unanimously approved at the National Directory meeting on May 5th, 1996.

The following definitions were thus established:


 * 1) The nature of the Foundation, as a private law institution, instituted by the Workers' Party but with legal and administrative autonomy, based in São Paulo, but with a national scope, "with the purpose of research, doctrinal elaboration and contribution to education politics of the members of the Workers' Party and the Brazilian working people”.
 * 2) The constitutive bodies of the Foundation:
 * 3) * The Board of Trustees, composed of 21 members to be appointed by the National Directory, which is responsible not only for monitoring, approving the accounts, the budget and the annual work plan, but also for deciding on all important matters, such as those relating to eventual changes to the institution's statute or patrimony, and more than that, the discussion of the general lines of work and the contribution to the development of the Foundation's activities through the critical evaluation of the projects in progress and suggestions. for new initiatives. To fulfill these responsibilities, regular quarterly meetings were scheduled
 * 4) * The Executive Board, composed of six members: a president, a vice-president and four more directors, with the attributions of planning, guiding and coordinating the Foundation's work, of external representation of the entity, including with the Curatorship of Foundations, and of its articulation with party bodies and with the various segments of society in general.

Work plan objectives

 * Recovery of memory and history of the Workers' Party;


 * Ideological, political and cultural reflection;


 * Socialization of the political-ideological-cultural patrimony, through events, publications and political education;
 * Public opinion polls,

Activities and centers
=== Centro Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (CSBH) === The Perseu Abramo Foundation, through the Centro Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (CSBH), has in its custody records of one of the most important experiences of the working class in the recent history of Brazil. The CSBH is responsible for the treatment and availability of the Workers' Party (PT) historical archive and other archives related to it, as well as for fostering research and reflection on the history of the party and the working class. One of our commitments is to allow the range of projects proposed by the different actors that make up the Party and in the different historical contexts that it has gone through - recorded in textual, iconographic, audiovisual, three-dimensional documents and others - to contribute to the enrichment of the democratic debate within and outside the Party.

Regarding documentation, today the CSBH houses practically the entire collection of the National Directory of the Workers' Party produced before 1989, as well as some sets prepared until 2006.

The collection comprises about 50 sets of documents – the so-called funds, sets of documents accumulated by people or institutions, and also thematic collections. The Collection Guide provides a description of each of these sets, containing the history of the institution of origin of the documents or, in the case of personal collections, the donor's biography; the trajectory of the collection itself until reaching the CSBH; a succinct description of the content of the documents included in that set; in addition to information such as the period covered, types of support (paper, objects, fabrics) and archival identification. In recent years they have worked to diversify and expand access to this documentation. A collection of interviews based on the methodology of oral history is being build, collecting testimonies from militants and leaders who contributed to the trajectory of the Party. The gathering of these memories offers new points of view and nuances about this history, complementing and enriching our collection.

In addition, they are working on digitizing the collection to make it available in a database available on our website, through which it is possible to search for a series of variables such as names of people and institutions, dates, cities, events, age categories, ethnic-racial, among others. The tool was launched in 2016, making available the iconographic collection of the CSBH, including photos of events across the country, such as political demonstrations, electoral campaigns, meetings and congresses of the PT, and posters to publicize the activities of social movements and the PT. The work of digitizing the collection is ongoing, and aims to make all the documentation available online for consultation at the CSBH.

The CSBH also has a line of publications that aim to contribute to the dissemination and circulation of knowledge about the history of the struggles of the working class. The journal of history and social sciences, PERSEU: História, Memória e Política, which has been in existence for 10 years, stands out. One of the unique characteristics that differentiates PERSEU from other journals for the dissemination of academic historiographic production is that, as it is constituted within the Perseu Abramo Foundation, they have the opportunity to host studies that openly and democratically reconcile the rigor necessary for the production of knowledge. with political engagement and positioning. The notion of technical impartiality is often imposed as a “quality measure” of knowledge, which results in an apparent depoliticization of the exercise of knowledge production. PERSEU magazine aims to contribute to the creation of a space for the circulation of democratic knowledge, with a left-wing, and politicized position. In addition to the magazine, they also edit the Cadernos Perseu, a collection that seeks to disseminate works that constitute historical documents relevant to the memory and history of the left-wing movement.

=== ObservaBR === Observa BR aims to focus debates and exchange information and be an accessible, dynamic and always updated repository of news, proposals, initiatives, policies, analyzes and formulations related to the reconstruction and transformation of Brazil. A space for the exchange of ideas, diagnosis, formulation and dissemination of proposals to overcome the country's challenges.

Brazil's Reconstruction and Transformation Plan
The Plan for Reconstruction and Transformation of Brazil consists of a document under constant construction, published in its first version in September 2020 by the Perseu Abramo Foundation and the Worker's Party, which brings together a set of ideas that aims to strengthen the democracy and the State, for the adoption of emergency and long-term economic measures, the recovery of workers' rights and the resumption of national sovereignty.

As a result of the debates and reflections of hundreds of people, in particular, the members of its Public Policy Monitoring Nucleo, the NAPPs -, but from broad democratic sectors of society, social movements, trade union centers, leaders and activists of various parties.

Recent publications
Latest books of Perseu Abramo Foundation publishing company:


 * A Luta contra o fascismo, Alberto Cantalice e Pedro Camarão (Orgs) - 2022;
 * Direitos Humanos no Brasil 2021: Relatório da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, Daniela Stefano e Maria Luisa Mendonça (Orgs) - 2021;
 * Versos adversos: antologia, Pedro Casaldáliga - 2021;
 * A política externa do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), Kjeld Jakobsen - 2021;
 * O marxismo na América Latina: uma antologia de 1909 aos dias atuais, Michael Löwy (organizador); tradução Cláudia Schilling, Luís Carlos Borges.