Rebeldia com causa: a trajetória política e intelectual de Antonio Bernardo Canellas (1916-1920

Abstract

This dissertation is focused on the political and intellectual history of Bernardo Antonio Canellas during the second decade of the twentieth century, between the years 1916-1920 in the cities of Viçosa and Maceio in Alagoas both state and Recife - PE. From the analysis of your route, this research proposes to understand their ideological position and his political activities, as a practice, exercised through his activism in favor of the working class. At the same time, we seek to understand the process of the labor movement outside the Rio - São Paulo, comprising political, economic, social and cultural cities where Canellas lived during the chronological limits of the research, adding up also aspects concerning the links between the militants national and international workers' movement itself related to the international context. Thus, it is expected that this Dissertation can contribute to debates, surveys and studies, not only about Antonio Bernardo Canellas, but also on the history and socio-political context of these cities, adding to the understanding of the ideologies, as anarchism, socialism and others disclosed and defended by militants as Canellas who fought and dreamed for a more just and egalitarian society.