Struggle for land propagandized in Brasília, Brazil
Featured image: event in the Academic Center of Geography of the University of Brasilia.
A Nova Democracia (AND) reported on several actions carried out by students of the University of Brasilia (UnB) to propagandize the struggle for land and to defend the necessity of the Agrarian Revolution in Brazil.
Since last year the activists of the Base Collective – Honestino Guimarães (CBHG) are carrying out a campaign to support the Agrarian Revolution, denouncing the crimes by the old State and latifundium, and to propagandizing the triumphs of the peasant struggle. On January 27 they put up and distributed more than 200 posters and leaflets on the campus Darcy Ribeiro. The students denounced the illegal eviction of the Terra Prometida camp in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, and they also spread the ways to help the peasant occupiers of Messias, Alagoas.
The students previously also carried out other actions, for example a debate they organized on the Agrarian Revolution on October 2024, and other symposiums done in defense of Education and struggle for land in November.
More recently the students of the CBHG made a film-screening with discussion. The documentary “Terra e Sangue: Bastidores do Massacre de Pau D’Arco” (Land and Blood: Racks of the Massacre of Pau D’Aarco) was screened and it was organized jointly with the Support Committee to AND in Brasília. The documentary is on the criminal violent action by the police under the command of the latifundium against peasants of southern Pará in 2017.
After screening the movie the students discussed on the struggle for land in Brazil, highlighted the violence by the bourgeois-big landlord State and the just peasant resistance of Revolutionary Areas lead by the League of the Poor Peasants (LCP), as well as other peasant, indigenous and Quilombola struggles which are developing in more and more combative ways.
The students refuted the idea that the massacre of Pau D’arco in 2017 was an “isolated case” or an action of a “specific government”, but that is part of the history of oppression of the masses in Brazil. The criminalization of the struggle for land was also denounced. It was explained that in Brasilia there are persecutions and attacks on dozens of settlements, crops burnt, peasant houses destroyed and peasant leaders persecuted.
The example of Barro Branco was highlighted as a prove of the increasing organization of the struggle for land and its advance, and how the old State and latifundium are fiercely attacking, but that their crimes are not scaring the peasants, indigenous and Quilombolas. Also it was pointed out that the “path of true anti-fascists, anti-imperialists of Brazil, is to denounce the attacks by the latifundium, servant of imperialism, and by the Invasão Zero paramilitary hordes, armed wing of the far right in the countryside”.
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