MST’s Agrarian Reform Fair welcomed 300,000 people in Brazil
At the end of the event, the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement announced the 6th edition of the fair to happen in 2026
MST sought to make lemonade out of the CPI lemons
By Camila Rocha ┃ PhD in political science from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning
Deputies wearing MST caps during the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the MST
7 Points that you need to know about the MST’s “Red April”
This year's April Campaign denounces hunger and slavery and reaffirms the struggle for land, democracy and in defense of the environment. Photo: MST/BA Communication Collective and Jonas Souza
Valdir Released From Prison
José Valdir Misnerovicz (Valdir) was recently released from prison after being held for months on terrorism charges for leading occupations of land by the MST. Below is his letter of thanks to all of his supporters:
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“Freedom, this word that feeds the human dream, that no one can explain and no one can understand”
Cecilia Meirelles
[07/16/10] MST Informa #186: CPMI concludes that no public funds have been diverted for occupations
After eight months of the boycott against the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPMI) on Agrarian Reform, the parliamentarians of the conservative sectors led by Kátia Abreu (DEM-TO) and On
[4/23/10] MST Informa #182: Review of the Progress of our Struggles
1. The History
The month of April has become a symbol of the fight for democratization of land in Brazil, and the world. On the 17th of April of 1996, 19 rural workers who participated in a protest march, were brutally murdered by the Military Police of the Brazilian state of Pará, in the municipality of Eldorado do Carajás.
[02-03-10] Land Reform Under Lula: One Step Forward, One Step Back
By Chris Tilly, Marie Kennedy, and Tarso Luís Ramos The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil, which has mobilized more than a million Brazilians to occupy and farm large landholdings, was ca
[09-21-09] MST Informa #172: Manifesto in Defense of Democracy and of the MST
Just the fact that we carried out another campaign—demanding the fulfillment of a list of demands presented to the Lula government in 2005 including the demand that the productivity indexes be brou
DECISION ELDORADO DOS CARAJÁS: STJ Upholds the Conviction of Military Police
The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) denied the appeal of the police officers convicted of killing 19 landless workers in 1996 in Eldorado dos Carajás (PA).
[08-21-09] MST Informa #170: Only Struggle Can Bring Success
This August, the National Encampment for Agrarian Reform in Brasilia and mobilizations organized by the MST and by the movements of Via Campesina throughout the country secured important victories
