Resistência, luta e formação camponesa no Cariri Paraibano: o caso dos assentamentos da Fazenda Pedra Lavrada e da Fazenda Açudinho.

Abstract

This work had the central objective of understanding the formative process of organization, struggle and peasant resistance in a camp located on two farms in Cariri, Paraíba. between 2014 and 2017. to understand why they were not successful in both fields. Specifically, we seek to: Analyze how land was distributed in Brazil, and specifically in Paraíba, to understand how the land distribution process was carried out in “São José dos Cordeiros and Serra Branca”From the time of Brazilian colonization (XVI), to the present day and understanding how the two territories located on the farms were occupied: Pedra lavrada (São José dos Cordeiros) and Açudinho (Serra Branca), analyzing why the peasants were not successful in these landsas a methodological theorist, we use the dialectical historical materialism of Marx and Engels that explains the history of human societies through historical facts, essentially, economic facts, since "the economic structure of society is the concrete basis on which a legal and political superstructureand to which certain forms of social consciousness correspond (MARX, 1983, p.24) To investigate our object, we made use of bibliographical research in historiographical production, of official sources available in public authorities archives (sesmarias, inventories, Agricultural Censuses, maps and data on land distribution in the municipalities of São José dos Cordeiros and Serra Branca available in the National Rural Registration System), in addition to the few documents generated in the heat of the struggle (minutes and photographs) and structured interviews carried out with some of the main peasant subjects who were participants in this process. The studies carried out allowed us to understand a significant part of the formative process of organization, struggle and peasant resistance of those workers fighting against the latifundium structure, between 2014 and 2017, as well as the lack of support and mobilization of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) as the main responsible for the failure of that peasant struggle.