News and Updates: History
In April of 1996, 21 farm workers were murdered; those who survived turned their pain into struggle
It was Wednesday, around 4pm, on the 17th of April 1996. Around fifteen hundred people...
The MST coordinator launches a book on agrarian reform in the world and proposes that in Brazil it should be based on agroecology
The...
Bringing together some 400 Movement members, the political event in honor of the MST's 35 years of existence was attended by parliamentarians, representatives of popular movements, university professors and friends of the...
Police do not rule out any hypothesis, but relatives of those executed point to political crime
Each foot of beans, banana and passion fruit in the plantation of the family Bernardo da Silva is a...
On Saturday night (December 8, 2018), two heavily armed masked hitmen attacked an MST encampment and murdered two MST militants José Bernardo da Silva and Rodrigo Celestino while they were eating dinner.
The 1st Continental Assembly of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) met between May 16-May 20. It brought 
together more than 200 delegates from 22 Latin American countries representing diverse...
by Cliff Welch
[Ed. Note: This article is from NACLA Report on the Americas...
by Mariana Duque
On 10 May 1986, another fighter of the people fell. Josimo Morais Tavares, known as Father Josimo, was murdered by regional landowners in Imperatriz, Maranhão.
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By Bianca Costa
On the morning of March 8, 2006, 1,800 women from Via Campesina carried out a major action against the monoculture...
Most advanced land reform project to date is still the one presented by João Goulart‘s administration Published on May 4, 2010 A republican and democratic reform necessary in Brazil By Mário Augusto Jakobskind - Editor in Chief / Página 64 (Page 64) In this exclusive interview with Página 64, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)...