SILVA, J. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7085135198335808; SILVA, José Avelino da.
Abstract:
This work refers to the origin / history of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), while
movement characteristic territorial partner. Accordingly, we attribute the history of this
movement, the adjectives of resistance and struggle for access / tenure. Where before a whole
framework , since the colonial period , values the interests of ruling oligarchies , this ( MST )
comes this " restlessness " of a devaluation of the peasant to the detriment of this class " said
top " . In a complementary way, deal a little about the various issues surrounding land
property, both in the Brazilian scenario, as in Paraiba field. For this we use the analysis
methodology and procedures involving the dialectic of socio- spatial processes and oral
history, literature, documentary and iconographic research, the research focused on the
interpretation of various narratives / memoirs. We make a journey , the history of the
movement from its first occupations held on farms in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul to the
first occupations in the backlands of Paraiba , more precisely , in one of their camps ,
Emiliano Zapata , located in Sousa -PB . This movement has always set out to fight for a
better "democratization" in relation to land access. We also present during this study some
concepts that are extremely important, as social movements, identity of being a peasant /
landless camps / settlements. These contribute to a discussion / understanding of the meaning
of the conflict between landlordism and small farmers without land. We have as a general
goal in this work, understand the history of social struggles for access to land by landless
peasants, coordinated by the MST, for the construction of the territories citizenship in the city
of Sousa -PB. The results point to difficulties in acquiring land in Brazil neglect by successive
rulers who does not propose, as a main goal, meeting social demands with the increase of the
Agrarian Reform. It should also draw attention to the fact of peasant resistance. It has been
more than seven years in which camped facing extreme difficulties in the area and that are
reported and analyzed in this study. We conclude that lack commitment from governments,
the situation, or opposition, in meeting the demands of historical excluded from access to
land. The records of the peasant struggle organized by the MST need greater visibility. Need
to be documented and archived. Face difficulties in systematizing the data by the absence of
documentary records, leaving only, mostly in the memories of camping, the history of
struggles for the conquest of the territory of Hope.