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Thousands of people came out last weekend to protest against the genocide perpetrated by Israel in the Middle East. Progressive and left presidents of the region have publicly condemned Israel’s actions

From the MST’s website Dear Friends of the MST, Greetings from the Internationalist Sector of the MST in Brazil! We are approaching the end of 2024 in a context of great concern and tension over global geopolitical disputes. Perhaps the most emblematic example was the last UN General Assembly. After one year of the genocide […]

Healthy food is not produced through unhealthy relationships!

The letter states that the designation “is designed to maximize the suffering of the people of Cuba, strangling its economy, displacing its families, and even restricting the flow of humanitarian aid”

Brazil’s MST is running more than 600 candidates in municipal elections, reinforcing the struggle for agrarian reform and better living conditions

According to MapBiomas, pastureland has expanded by 79% and agriculture by 228% in the last 39 years

Economist and researcher, his work emphasized the need of Marxism for the struggle of peoples on the periphery of capitalism

Kenyan police officers were deployed to Haiti as part of a UN-mandated mission to try to combat gang violence and restore security

US-based activists organized a massive flour distribution campaign to offset the effects of the deadly regime of US sanctions and the blockade against Cuba

Read the interview with the militant of the peasant organization Papay Peasant Movement (MPP), from Haiti

Movements denounce US imperialism’s attempts to destabilize Venezuela’s democracy and popular sovereignty through various attacks and operations

The movement’s pre-candidates come from 12 political parties, but most are from the Workers’ Party

A health administrator from Rio Grande do Sul analyzes the state’s situation and sees a lack of coordination and the risk of misusing public funds in the upcoming municipal elections

About US$ 85,1 billion may be allocated; President Lula will announce a ceremony at Planalto Palace

Check out the article by João Pedro Stedile about the climate crisis

Prompted by the experience of a recent cholera outbreak, the Socialist Party of Zambia launched a mobile clinic in the effort of making health care more accessible to everyone

Between 2020 and 2023, the MST planted 25 million trees and recovered 15,000 hectares of degraded land

By Solange Engelmann With information from Agatha Azevedo, from Minas Gerais, Camila Maria Alves, from Goiás and Fernanda Alcântara, from São Paulo | From the MST Page | Translated by Friends of the MST (US) In the second part of the report, settled families complain about the lack of public investment in structuring life in […]

Since 1999, 71 landless families are encamped in the 479-ha resistance community

In an interview, João Pedro Stedile, leader of the MST, gives a rating of three to the federal government’s land democratization policy and criticizes the low investment in programs to combat hunger.

Thousands took to the streets in São Paulo on Saturday to protest the bill in the Chamber of Deputies that equates abortion to homicide

The Chamber of Deputies surprised many by pushing forward the discussion on a bill that equates abortion with murder and prohibits abortion even in cases of rape

Sowing in partnership with the Federal Highway Police was part of a plan to curb the environmental crisis

Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) celebrates 40 years of struggle tackling gender-based violence in rural areas

In Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), millions are suffering from extreme flooding. Amid the waters, the Landless Workers’ Movement is focused on providing emergency relief

National and internation donations can be made on the Apoia-se platorm; contribute and help rebuild the settlements in RS

Floods in Rio Grande do Sul call for immediate interventions to tackle health effects and long-term mental health repercussions. Calls to implement a National Environmental Health Policy increase among researchers and activists

Check out the MST’s main solidarity actions in the state, such as solidarity kitchens, rescue of the homeless, donations of materials and medical assistance

Check out the full document from the Landless Workers Movement on the postponement of the VII National Congress

The month marks April 17, when the International Day of Peasant Struggle is remember the 21 rural workers murdered by the military police in the 1996 Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Pará

A national mobilization is underway to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Eldorado do Carajás martyrs’ deaths and to celebrate 40 years of the MST’s struggles

This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organisation and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners

Around 40 schools, from 13 states, carried out educational activities against the genocide of Palestinian children

About 196 square kilometers were deforested in the first two months of 2024. Last year, it was 523 square kilometers

João Paulo Rodrigues says the left will not accept granting pardon for those who participated on the January 8 attack

Tavares’ killing occurred during an action by the Paraná State Military Police that injured 185 MST members

The Maria Rosa do Contestado camp will be the first in Paraná to be regularized during President Lula’s third term

This March 8, the MST in the Federal District and Surrounding Area releases a note on protest against the State of Israel and solidarity with the Palestinian people

The MST will come out in defense of rural and urban workers working for agrarian reform

Community is made up of more than 160 families and advances agroecological production and local development

Check out an interview with Lucineia Freitas, from the National Directorate of the MST Gender Sector, about the challenges and flags of the National Day of Landless Women

As a result of the deliberate actions carried out by the Israeli occupation of Palestine, hundreds of thousands of residents of Gaza are being denied access to sufficient food

Agribusiness production increased by 15.1% between 2022 and 2023, while citizens’ consumption increased by 3.1%

The Brazilian President was recently banned from Israel after standing unequivocally with Palestine and against Israeli-perpetrated genocide

Over 4,000 people may visit the Foz do Iguaçu Convention Center; in the evening, a political act will end the event

65 water filters and 8 tons of food were sent to Ethiopian refugees

Activities will reunite 1500 people from 20 countries to discuss the articulation of peoples from the region

We continue to fight hard against the closure of schools in the countryside and for decent conditions to work in them; in addition to facing the transport business and combating the EAD business

Brazilian researchers say the pace of devastation seen in recent decades may lead towards the biome’s partial collapse

On Thursday, February 8, the Federal Police carried out an operation that shook the Brazilian political scene