Uma leitura das estratégias de luta da União Nacional dos Camponeses (UNAC) em Moçambique e do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) no Brasil, 2019–2024

Abstract

In this dissertation, we seek to reflect on agrarian reform, based on a reading of the strategies of struggle of the national union of peasants (UNAC) in mozambique, and the movement of landless rural workers (MST), in Brazil, in the period from 2019 to 2024. The research aims to study the strategies of struggle adopted by UNAC and the MST, with the following specific objectives: a) to analyze the historical and socioeconomic contexts that influenced the formation of UNAC and the MST, identifying the similarities and differences in the conditions that led to the emergence and evolution of these movements; b) to investigate the main strategies of mobilization and resistance used by UNAC and the MST, examining the similarities and differences in the approaches and tactics employed by each movement in their struggles for agrarian reform and; c) to evaluate the impacts of the actions of UNAC and the MST on the lives of peasants and on the agrarian structure of Mozambique and Brazil, highlighting the similarities and differences in the social, economic and political effects resulting from the actions of both movements. To carry out this research, a comprehensive methodology was privileged, which includes bibliographic review, documentary analysis, consultations with journalistic sources and also discourse analysis, with the objective of identifying the similarities and differences between the aforementioned movements, considering the historical, political and socioeconomic contexts that influenced their trajectories. The struggle for land in both countries is directly related to colonial and post-colonial processes in the mozambican case and to the legacy of the sesmarial system in Brazil.