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,...
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,...
Capitalist Crisis of Organizing Production and Society
We are living through a very complex moment of global reality and human history. In the last decade, various profound crises have unfolded that affect the lives of every person, as well as the very survival of our planet.
First, there is an economic crisis that is not just cyclical or sectoral, but is characterized by calling into question the essence of the capitalist mode of production, now hegemonized by financial capital and the large international corporations that control production and the global market. This is not just a crisis of accumulation or production of wealth. It is a crisis that reveals that the current way of organizing production can no longer ensure work, income, and the production of goods to meet the needs of the entire global population. Its essence is only to create profit, which is fulfilled in the sphere of financial capital. Thus, capitalism is no longer progressive and no longer represents a solution for the vast majority of humankind. Capitalists cannot find solutions that continue the accumulation and production of wealth while satisfying the needs of the world’s population. Millions of human beings, workers, and producers of goods were marginalized in this system of production. They cannot find work, labor, income, or ways to survive.
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Video and English subtitles from Pagina do MST, December 2019
A honk blares through the city of a strangled scream. The noise of the Vale train that runs through Brumadinho is a sign that ore never stops, running on the tracks toward foreign lands. Unlike that entire area of southeastern Brazil, the train didn’t mourn in the past six months. But what the small town sees, feels, and breathes is a testament to Andreza’s grief for her son. “Caring for life is not something the mining industry does. Where there is mining, that’s the only thing that survives.”
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On April 18, 2019, in honor of the International Day of Peasant Struggle, the Family Farm Defenders (a member of La Via Campesina), the Friends of the MST and other allies protested at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The CME is the private agency that trades in soy, cheese, hogs, animal feed and lumber, among other commodities. The CME sets the prices...