The MST and Paulo Freire’s Legacy in Africa

Rafael Soriano As a wanderer of hope, work, and changing people’s lives, Paulo Freire spread a legacy across all continents. Freire lived in Bolivia, in Chile, in Cambridge (England), in the USA, in Geneva (Switzerland), and visited many places in the world. From his work in the World Council of Churches, of which he became…

Campaign of Struggles: The MST Donates More than 100 Tons of Food Throughout Brazil

MST The MST donated food all over the country during the April Campaign of Struggles held from April 10 to 21. Photo MST in PE / Ana Olívia Godoy The MST is in solidarity and shares its harvest among the workers affected by the food crisis that the country is suffering, in the situation where…

Letter to World Leaders on the Occasion of the Leaders’ Summit on Climate

International People’s Assembly It is common knowledge that we are at a decisive moment for human survival and for the biodiversity of our planet. There is a serious environmental and public health crisis, caused by crimes committed continuously by the greed for profit. The research and scientific data are more and more evident, which you…

Joao Pedro Stedile: Bolsonaro’s Increasing Isolation

Carlos Aznarez and Joao Pedro Stedile To interview Joao Pedro Stedile, referent of the Landless Movement of Brazil, is to know in advance that everything he says will be backed by years of working with the peasant masses, and also as an indispensable promoter of political alliances of the anti-capitalist left. We wanted to discuss…

Brazil: Eldorado do Carajás, 25 Years of Impunity

Fernanda Alcântara Burial of Landless Workers Victims of the 1996 massacre, in Pará. Image search Archive and MST Memory. Photo: J.R. Ripper Ayala Ferreira, of the national leadership of the MST, by the National Human Rights Collective, recalls the brutality of the massacre in Pará and speaks of the actions for Abril Vermelho The 17th…

Literacy and Agroecology Campaign: Solidarity and Hope Among African Peoples

Phillyp Mikell Photo: Brigada Samora Machel The MST Internationalist Brigade Samora Machel, located in Zambia, has been active in Africa since 2008. To bring solidarity to the peoples of the mother continent, the Brigade has worked on three central axes: education, agroecology and women’s organization. More recently, as of November 2020, the literacy efforts of…

Forest Voices Brazil: ‘A New Relationship with Forests Will Cool Down the Planet

Molly Millar An MST member holds up a seedling – one of 100 million trees it aims to plant in 10 years. Photo: Dowglas Silva / MST. ‘We need the trees.’ ‘We need clean water and clean air.’ ‘We need biodiversity.’ ‘We need a good place to live.’ Silvio Netto is helping to coordinate the…

Investments in Agrarian Reform and Family Farming are Alternatives to the Crisis in Brazil

Solange Engelmann and Iris Pacheco In the midst of one of the biggest economic, political and health crises, rural workers are reinventing themselves to stay in the countryside and present a viability for a project that contributes to the country’s food sovereignty. This is not a process that started now, on the contrary, it is…

MST Letter to the Brazilian People: For Urgent Changes! In Defense of Life and Hope!

Lula Livre march towards Brasília. Photograph: Luiz Fernando MST highlights struggles for the next period in defense of the life and rights of the Brazilian people. Forcing Bolsonaro out is urgent and necessary. Anchored by the mistica of rebellion and imbued with peasant culture, the National Coordination of the MST, within the framework of our…

Historic Farmers’ Parade Takes Center Stage on India’s Republic Day

Peoples Dispatch Photo: Newsclick On January 26, which is celebrated as India’s Republic Day, tens of thousands of farmers rode into the capital New Delhi. Their demand: the withdrawal of three laws that were pushed through parliament in an undemocratic manner January 26, the day India became a Republic, is traditionally celebrated at Rajpath —…

MST Celebrates 37 Years and Shows the Strength of Family Farming During the Pandemic

Mariana Castro Despite the Bolsonaro government’s attacks, the movement donated more than 3,000 tons of food in 2020. Between January 20 and 25, 1984, a meeting took place in Cascavel (PR) between squatters, affected by dams, migrants, sharecroppers and small farmers who lost the right to produce food in Brazil. Amidst the effervescence of union…

MST: Six Banners of Struggle that Will Be Present in 2021

Fernanda Alcântara Almost two weeks have passed since the beginning of a new year; it is common to reflect on some perspectives and challenges that, in general, we will face in 2021. Even more in the face of the pandemic of the novel Coronavirus, an unexpected and deadly enemy that has affected more than eight…

Black Women, Mothers, Workers: The Frontlines of the MTST

Camila Valle and Tainã Góis One only has to look around any occupation by the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST) to notice that the majority of people there are women. Research done in 2014 by a volunteer tech support group acting alongside the movement estimated that women make up approximately 70 percent of active members….

How the MST Proposes to Stand Up to Agribusiness by Planting Organic Soy

Erick Gimenes Soy begins to grow at the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul sow 100 hectares of poison-free soy Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement, of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul, began planting…

Agroecology Means Popular Resistance at MST’s Marielle Vive Camp

Daniel Lamir Footage of the Marielle Vive camp, highlighting its mandala garden – Julio Matos There are about 700 families in transition threatened by real estate speculation For more than two years, around 700 families from the Landless Rural Workers Movement(MST) have been transforming the idle setting of the old Eldorado Ranch, in the Valinhos…

The National Guard and the MST in the State of Bahia: Understand What’s Happening

Cristiane Sampaio The operation was initially authorized to take place for 30 days, from September 3rd to October 2nd – MST/Divulgação The conflict began September 2nd, after a court order from the Justice Ministry; the cases relates to land reform Related to a dispute between the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) and agricultural elites, the…

Brazil: Life Lessons and Resistance of the MST

Carlos Aznarez Recently the Brazilian regime, through the action of its repressive forces, invaded and destroyed a part of the camp that the Landless Movement of Brazil had been maintaining for 20 years in Quilombo Grande do Campo, in Mina Gerais. It is not surprising that this should happen, since the MST is in the…

Police Set Fire to MST Camp During Eviction

Lu Sudré Families of Quilombo Campo Grande camp denounce the negligence of the Minas Gerais state government – MST 450 landless families have been resisting the eviction for more than 30 hours in the state of Minas Gerais Military police set fire to the Quilombo Grande camp of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, located in…