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MST launches Emergency Plan for People’s Agrarian Reform

On June 5, 2020, the MST launched the EMERGENCY PLAN FOR PEOPLE'S AGRARIAN REFORM. The Emergency Plan includes measures aimed at quickly promoting the creation of jobs, producing food for the people and guaranteeing income and conditions for families to live in dignity. The Emergency Plan was launched to take into account the consequences caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE EMERGENCY PLAN FOR PEOPLE'S AGRARIAN REFORM.

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On the Centennial of Florestan Fernandes, the MST celebrates 15th Anniversary of the National School

According to Florestan Fernandes there is only one force capable of transforming Brazilian Society, “a political movement of the working classes.”

This past Wednesday July 22nd, 2020 was the centennial of the birth of that intellectual and one of the great thinkers and thought leaders of the Brazilian people. On the next day, July 23rd, 2020 the Landless Workers Movement, the MST, celebrated the 15th anniversary of the founding of the national school that is named after this great thinker.

Based on the ideas and work of Florestan Fernandes, the MST founded the Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) in 2005. Read about the founding of the school, now in its fifteenth year and the role the school plays in political education for the working class throughout the world. This article also includes links to a short biography of Florestan Fernandes and a video on the founding of ENFF. Read the article HERE.

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Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

by Fernanda Alcântara

Over the past 35 years, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has been known worldwide for organizing thousands of landless workers to occupy large estates in order to earn the right to land, health, education and to develop production practices for healthy and agroecological food.

Professor and researcher Rebecca Tarlau has spent...

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