A resistência camponesa e a experiência do corte popular no território alagoano: uma análise da Área Revolucionária Renato Nathan - Messias/Alagoas

Abstract

The struggle for land is an ongoing process that has lasted centuries in Brazilian territory. For many years, important agents have made history in the fight for land, dignity and rights. Until today, there has been no true agrarian reform in our country, capable of meeting the needs of the people who, for decades, have been facing the hegemonic powers in the fight for land. Alagoas is a state whose history is defined by struggles, especially territorial struggles, marked by the hegemony of sugarcane, mainly in the region of the Zona da Mata in Alagoas, endowed with fertile lands, coveted by the large sugar mill owners, the “doctors” of sugar. This research is an analysis of the process of popular cuts in the peasant struggle and resistance, having as its object of study the Professor Renato Nathan Revolutionary Area, located in Sítio Lajeiro, in the municipality of Messias, Alagoas. The aim of this paper is to discuss how the peasant population, organized by the League of Poor Peasants of Brazil (LCP), has been fighting and resisting large landholdings for almost 20 years. This paper is characterized by qualitative research, in which field visits were carried out for the process of recognition and empirical analysis of the object of study, in addition to interviews for data collection, conducted in a semi structured manner with the peasants. The research uses the materialist-historical-dialectical method as its methodological approach, as it presents the most appropriate ideological path, capable of better understanding the dualism present in the research: the land conflict between large landholdings (Utinga Leão Mill) and small landholdings (peasants). The results show that even with the peasants suffering from illegal eviction, the policy of popular land cuts prevailed in the housing space. The peasants of Lajeiro put into practice the pillars of the LCP Agrarian Program, mobilizing the struggle and unifying the mass of squatters evicted in Messias. Thus, faced with this violent scenario, the peasants of the Prof. Renato Nathan Revolutionary Area remain firm in the fight for and on the land in the Messianic territory, resisting as a peasant class and mainly through popular land seizures, which are transforming relations in the countryside of Alagoas.