He currently teaches Sociology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and serves as the executive secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences[citation needed] Known to be a Marxist thinker, Sader has worked with national and foreign publications.

He was a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review, a 160-page journal published every two months from London that examines world politics; the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history and philosophy; cinema, literature, heterodox art and aesthetics.

[1] Sader's contributions to the NLR include The Worker's Party in Brazil (1987); Beyond Civil Society (2002); Taking Lula's Measure (2005); and The Weakest Link?

"[5] In 2005 Sader published an article on the website of the news agency Carta Maior in response to a statement made by Senator Jorge Bornhausen.

Representing the PFL, Liberal Front Party (renamed to Democrats), the senator was asked if he was unhappy with the political crisis of corruption facing Brazil then.

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