The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Democracy in Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (S) ◽  
pp. 186-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Carter
Keyword(s):  
Rural Workers ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement

Challenges Facing Latin American Peasant Movements under Progressive Governments and New Right-Wing Parties: The Case of Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Peasant Movements ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement ◽  
The Right

This article analyzes the dilemmas faced by peasant movements in Brazil during the “progressive governments” and the return of the right to power. To this end, it analyzes the case of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in two scenarios of recent political history. The first is that of the progressive governments, characterized by a simultaneous opening of public space and public policies to popular movements, although at the same time and contradictorily, also to the private sector linked to financial and transnational capital. The second scenario is that of the rise of the far right to power, first through a parliamentary coup d’état, and then by an electoral process. O artigo analisa os dilemas enfrentados pelos movimentos camponeses no Brasil durante os “governos progressistas” e no retorno das direitas ao poder. Para tanto, se analisa o caso do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em dois cenários da história política recente: o primeiro, no marco dos governos progressistas, caracterizado por uma abertura do espaço público, no campo das políticas públicas, aos movimentos populares, ainda que ao mesmo tempo e de maneira contraditória, também ao setor privado vinculado ao capital financeiro e transnacional. O segundo cenário é o da ascensão, mediante um golpe de Estado parlamentário, seguido de processo eleitoral, da direita ao poder.

An education in gender and agroecology in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Fátima Schwendler ◽  
Lucia Amaranta Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Workers ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement

scholarly journals O Museu do MST e a emergência de uma nova museologia

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Major Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement ◽  
New Museology

The article deals with the emergence in Brazil of a new type of museum: the Museum of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). We discuss this sense as well as the social and political need and eplain that this type of museums may have a major significance for the country. We show that this new design museum, also emerged from the new museology. Keywords: MST Museum; memory of struggle; museology; agrarian reform; social development.

Rural Social Movements in Brazil in the Second Half of the 20th Century: From the Peasant Leagues to the Landless Workers’ Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Rubber Tappers ◽  
Union Activists ◽  
Landless Rural Workers Movement ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
Rural Social Movements

The struggle for land pervades Brazilian history, but it was not until the 1950s that various groups coalesced, thus forging the basis of a national peasant movement. Prior to the military dictatorship, small farmers associations and Peasant Leagues, irrespective of their strategies, had placed agrarian reform in the public spotlight. Since then, the issue has become the driving force for rural social movements. The 1964 coup violently suppressed these organizations, persecuting peasant and rural labor union activists. At the same time, it created legal mechanisms to make land expropriation viable while giving incentives for massive technological modernization in rural areas. It also encouraged the occupation of frontier zones by corporations. Such initiatives aggravated the land issue in the country in areas of recent and historical occupation rather than alleviating it. By the late 1970s, new actors emerged, putting land disputes back onto the political arena: landless workers, rubber tappers, small farmers, squatters, and the indigenous peoples. New organizations emerged, sometimes in opposition to rural workers’ unions, which performed a relevant role during the dictatorship while at other times working from within them. One of these emerging actors was the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, MST), which stood out nationally and internationally due to its innovative approach in terms of strategies such as land occupations and encampments, and in the late 1990s by building networks with other organizations worldwide, as is the case with the Via Campesina. In parallel to that, family farmers also became politicized as they demanded public policies through union organizations to survive in a rural environment controlled by large entrepreneurs.

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