Social Culture Center and the Libertarian Athenaeuns - a Tool of Fight and Learnings for Anticolonial and Eurodiscidence in Brazil

The Social Culture Center (Centro de Cultura Social-CCS), in São Paulo, is a self and collective education space linked to the anarchist social movement in Brazil, within the context of the creation of Libertarian Athenæums. Founded in 1933, it was closed during the two dictatorships faced in the territory occupied by the National State (1939-1945 and 1964-1985), but continued its activities clandestinely, becoming a catalyst for the collective strength of anarchist activists in the education, protection, and organization of key figures in social struggle and intellectual movements. Understanding anarchism as one of the social forces that emerged in the context of the globalization of the European model, which arrived not as a tool of domination but as a means of organizing and supporting local struggles against the Eurocentric and colonialist model, this work aims to reflect on the international campaigns, social mobilizations, and distinct phases of the multiple realities of social struggle that the Centro de Cultura Social has experienced. Thus, the CCS is understood as a socio-political actor itself, capable of generating deep intersubjective constructions, always in dialogue with the reality of the anti-state struggle, from the Brazilian First Republic to the present day.