Inny Accioly is Professor of Education at the Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is co-editor of Commodifying Education: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Financialization of Education Policies in Brazil (2016).

Donaldo Macedo is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is co-author, with Paulo Freire, of Literacy: Reading the World and the Word (1987).

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Notes on Contributors
Foreword Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
1. Moving Beyond the Slow Death of Neoliberalism to a Life-Centered Education: An Introduction, Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) and Donaldo Macedo (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
2. Chomsky on Trump's Disastrous Coronavirus Response, Bernie Sanders and What Gives Him Hope, Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) and Noam Chomsky (University of Arizona, USA)
3. Militarization in a Time of Pandemic Crisis, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada) and Ourania Filippakou (University College London, UK)
4. The "New Normal' in Education is Ultra-Neoliberal: In Defense of the Strategy that Breaks with the Time Continuum, Roberto Leher (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
5. Xenophobic Europe: Racist Policy towards Refugees, Georgios Tsiakalos, Stavros Malichudis, and Iliana Papangeli (University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
6. Coronavirus Pandemic and the 'Refoulment' of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Sheila L. Macrine (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
7. Neoliberal Recrudescence Versus Radical Transformation of the Reality in Italy: What and Why Must We Learn from the Coronavirus Pandemic? Paolo Vittoria (Federico II University of Naples, Italy) and Mariateresa Muraca (Pará State University, Brazil)
8. The Lost Generation? Educational Contingency in Viral Times: Malta and Beyond, Carmel Borg and Peter Mayo (University of Malta, Malta)
9. Lessons from Teacher Organizing: Disputing the Meaning of Teaching and Teachers' Work during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Chile, M. Beatriz Fernández and Ivan Salinas Barrios (University of Chile, Chile) and Andrea Lira (University of Magallanes, Chile)
10. Environmental Education: For a Critical Renovation alongside the Traditional Peoples Carlos Frederico B. Loureiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11. Resisting and Re-Existing on Earth: Politics for Hope and 'Buen Vivir', Luiz Katu (Indigenous Peoples Articulation of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), Celso Sánchez (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Daniel Renaud Camargo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Afterword, Inny Accioly (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) and Donaldo Macedo (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)