The scale of the struggle and peasant resistance

Abstract

The struggle of peasants in Brazil is conducted through unions, entities, associations and principally social movements. The most significant example of the struggle in the field is that undertaken by the (Landless Peasants Movement) MST. Nevertheless, peasants have also demonstrated an ability to resist domination and imposition of capitalist relations by means of other social manifestations and practices that are not necessarily led by the social movements. In this sense, territory and local forces arise as a possibility for the construction of peasant autonomy.