MST

For an MST activist, a win for Lula in the upcoming runoff vote against Bolsonaro is only one step in a crucial struggle to rebuild the Brazilian and Latin American Left.

Para uma ocupação do MST, o ataque acelerado à Amazônia sob o governo Bolsonaro intensificou a constante ameaça de desapropriação.

On April 17, 1996, close to 1500 rural landless workers began a march to the Pará state capital of Belém, Brazil with the goal of presenting their demands to resolve their land situation. When they arrived to the city of Eldorado do Carajás, the march stopped so that people could rest, but they were attacked by more than 100 military police officers who fired live ammunition into the crowd of demonstrators, killing 19. In 2002 then Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, declared April 17 to be the "National Day of Struggle for Agrarian Reform."

I have some very good memories of the activities of the movement. I also have some painful ones. Among the

IT'S BEEN HAPPENING NOW EVERY COUPLE of months. Hundreds of poor city-dwellers descend on the center of Sdo Paulo in

Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures

This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a

Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures

Last week the Brazilian Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) held its fifth National Congress in Brasília, the country's capital. The power the MST has garnered throughout its 23 years was palpable, as more than 17,500 delegates from 24 states and almost 200 international guests marched to the Square of the Three Powers, situated between the buildings of the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government. Marchers hung a huge banner in the square that read, "We accuse the three powers of impeding agrarian reform."