How Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement emerged from right-wing rule stronger than ever

 

 

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There is perhaps no organization with a better
reputation among leftists around the world
than the MST. Its admirers will tell you that the
group has managed accomplishments that elude
progressive movements elsewhere: It maintains
a radical approach, pushing for revolution in the
long term while providing food for working-class
Brazilians in the short; it has adapted
to shifting conditions without suffering major
rifts; and it fought to get Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva, Brazil’s once and current president, out
of prison in 2019 and back into
power, all while keeping its independence
from the ruling Workers’
Party. “We have been very inspired
by the MST as a political and social
movement,” Enzo Camacho, from
the ALPAS Pilipinas, a group that
works to organize the Filipino diaspora
in Berlin, told me. Belén Díaz,
a sociologist and a member of the
left-feminist Bloque Latinoamericano
collective, put it more bluntly:

“The Landless Workers’ Movement
is the most respected social movement in the world.”"

 

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