The 49th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires opens its doors from April 24 to May 12 at the La Rural Fairground. IPS Editions will have your stand and perform activities, events and presentations. In a world in crisis, Marxist, classic and contemporary debates, with socialist ideas to transform it are increasingly valid.
As we have been doing throughout these years and with the aim that the ideas of our books are known and arrived far, we decided outlet 50% discount books.
Given the world capitalist crisis with wars and all kinds of ecological disorders, migratory, economic and social problems arises a renewed interest in the ideas of communism that expressed itself in that hundreds of young people, professionals, women, workers and workers, secondary, tertiary and university students already approached our stand last year, interested in seeing novelties, taking some book and also participating in our activities and presentations. It was no accident that the Communist Manifesto y What do we talk about when we say socialism? They have been among the best selling. This year, we present new publications to contribute to current debates:
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Fire red. Communist reflections in the face of the ecological crisis of Esteban Mercatante
The ecological crisis, of which we see demonstrations such as fires, droughts, floods and other increasingly recurring disasters, finds its causes in the functioning of capitalism. Facing its consequences without changing from the root economic and social dynamics is not a possibility.
Given environmental disasters, it is not true that “we are all in the same ship.” The large companies and their magnates, either belonging to the sectors directly responsible for planetary destruction or the sectors of the supposed “green capitalism”, they can avoid the worst costs of ecological disorders. Its environmental agenda has the priority to defend profits. For the working class and popular majorities, allowing states and large companies to continue determining the answers to the ecological crisis, is to condemn us to live on an increasingly uninhabitable planet.
The new book of Esteban Mercatante, theoretically analyzes, taking up the contributions of critical and socialist environmentalists, the dynamics of capitalism that explain the disorders generated in the planetary systems, the fallacies of green capitalism as a remedy of them, and the alternatives that are raised to put an emergency brake and change the system before it is too late.
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Tribute to Catalonia de George Orwell
The book of the world -known writer is a first -person chronicle of the Revolutionary Barcelona of 1936 and 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. In that city, the author describes that everything is collectivized: industry, public transport, cars turned into armored and the workers, soldiers, wearing blue Mameluco and red and red -white scarves. Relatives the preparations in the “Lenin barracks” of the POUM militia and how life was in the trenches of the Aragon Front, in the frosts of Alcubierre.
It also accounts for the great slander and betrayal to the revolution at the hands of the stalinism that the police controlled and denounces the proscription to the POUM. It reflects the paradox that while this party was persecuted in Barcelona under the government of the Popular Front, their militiamen continued to fight, many leaving their lives on the battlefield, without knowing that at the same time they were accused of “plot” with fascism.
The present work shows us a revolution inside, where his story becomes alive, as living and intense was the class struggle in its maximum peak that led the author to write this work that shakes and challenges our time.
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Ecomunism. Defend life: destroy the system The Ariel Petruccelli
The ecological crisis is an increasingly hot issue, in the context of a capitalist system that, to sustain itself, deepens it day by day. This book investigates the close connection between that crisis and capitalism, seeking to elaborate a rigorous explanation of its reasons.
At the same time, drawing a state of the question of the current environmental debate, critically analyzes various positions, from technopymism to nineteenth -century, through the proposals of a Green New Deal and the collapses and anticolapsist looks, from a Marxist perspective.
On that tour, the author recovers the elaborations of Manuel Sacristán (pioneer in the treatment of the ecological issue in Marxism) and the anarchist Bernard Charbonneau (a great critic of ecologism mainstream).
It is a fundamental work to highlight the importance of a revolutionary environmentalism and a communism with an ecological perspective: ecomunism.
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Marx, women and capitalist social reproduction of Martha E. Gomena
Forgotten for several decades, Marxist feminism was revalued with the rise of the last feminist wave, which put into debate the relationship between capitalism and reproduction of life. Marxist feminists have that merit: that of having discussed, from various approaches, the structural link that exists between the (free) social reproduction that is carried out in the domestic sphere and the capitalist exploitation, through which the class owner of the means of production obtains surplus value of the surplus work of the wage class. The collective result of this theoretical production is diverse, contradictory and captivating; But above all, vital and a forceful demonstration that there is no social and political emancipatory proposal that can do without dialogue with Marxism. The compilation of Martha E. Giménez essays that IPS editions present for the first time in Spanish and that cover its intellectual work from the 1970s to the first decade of our century, it reveals part of that theoretical and political effort of Marxist feminism that, without a doubt, will astonish and captivate the new generations of feminists, socialists and Marxists of these latitudes.
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Pedagogical psychology by Lev Vigotski
Pedagogical psychology. A brief course It constitutes the first book he wrote, between 1921 and 1924, Lev Vigotski. Fruit of his years of teaching work after the triumph of the Russian revolution, it is a manual for future educators from an anti -capitalist view from the needs of the construction of a socialist society.
The book addresses central issues for psychology such as attention, memory, thought, language, emotions and education of emotional behavior, disability, artistic education, morals in childhood, the relationship between work, education and socialism, and teaching role. And constitutes the first synthesis of its author in the search for a psychological science that escapes dualisms and reductionism.
Translated directly from the Russian by Alejandro Ariel González, it is an essential work for anyone who looks for tools to understand the central problems of education from a Marxist dialectical perspective and aspires to know the beginnings of the Vigotskian work.
Presentation of the ecology and Marxism collection
On Tuesday, May 6, IPS Editions will make a talk/presentation of the ecology and Marxism collection: “A communist perspective before the ecological crisis” with Esteban Mercatante, Ariel Petrucccelli, Juan Duarte and Lihuen Antonelli. It will be in the T. Halperin Donghi room of the blue pavilion at 7 pm, where the new titles of the collection will be presented: Fire Red. Communist reflections in the face of the ecological crisis; Ecomunism. Defend life: destroy the system and extractivism in Argentina. Looting, resistances and dispute strategies.
Presentation of tribute to Catalonia
On April 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the IPS Editions stand, the presentation of the new tribute book to Catalonia by George Orwell will be held. From the Biographies and Memory collection, it is a first -person chronicle of the writer’s experience in the Spanish Civil War. The author of the presentation to this edition, Daniel Lencina, and Luca Bonfante, a reference for the student struggle and candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for the Fitu will participate in it. Iara Rueda, Fula Torrez and Sergio Cena will also be, who especially prepared their illustrations for this edition.
Presentation of Pedagogical psychology
On Friday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the IPS Editions stand, the presentation of the New Book of the Science and Marxism collection will be held. It will be attended by its editors and presenters, Juan Duarte, Pablo Minini, Ivana Otero, Virgina Pescarmona and Federico Puy.
Myriam Bregman at the International Book Fair
On Sunday, May 11, Myriam Bregman will present his first book, Left. The book is crossed by the struggle experiences in which it participated in these years, but fundamentally by a reflection: “Is it possible to defeat that pessimism that prefers us conformists, skeptics or cynical and freeing the ability to project another life, another society, other relationships that are closed today?”
The presentation will be in the José Hernández room of the Book Fair (Income by Av. Sarmiento 2704), on Sunday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. In conversation with Alejandro Bercovich and Guillermo Martínez.
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The official inauguration of the Fair will be in charge of the writer Juan Sasturain, on Thursday 24 at 6:00 p.m. From Monday to Thursday, tickets will cost $ 5000 to the general public and $ 8000 from Friday to Sunday. There is also the possibility of acquiring a three -day pass for $ 12000 pesos. Children under 12 and teachers have free access every day; While retirees, pensioners and students will not pay admission from Monday to Friday.
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