Organização e resistência na luta dos trabalhadores rurais da Comunidade do Cajueiro, em face do processo de implantação do TUP/Porto São Luís-MA

Abstract

This dissertation presents a reflection and analysis on industrial development projects in the Cajueiro community located in the Rural Zone II of São Luís, Maranhão, highlighting changes in the territorial dynamics of the community under study, as well as discussing the organization and resistance of this community in the face of actions of developmental projects. Specifically, it has been shown that this century-old community lives essentially from extractivism, agriculture and the creation of small animals and, since 2014, it has been experiencing a socio-territorial struggle and a great confrontation on the part of its workers against the installation of the TUP Porto São Luís, represented by the company WPR São Luís Gestão de Portos e Terminais and the chinese company China Communications Construction Company. It was also highlighted the installation of industrial projects under the dynamics of capital and its implications in disputes over land. The logic of capital in peripheral countries and the development policy in Brazil were contextualized from the 1950s to the 1980s, focusing on the role of the State and the market in relation to these policies. The action of industrial projects was addressed, as well as the port expansion in the Cajueiro community, from projects financed by federal and transnational funds that disregard the way of life and cultural diversity, in addition to the right of these workers to land. Changes in the way of life and working conditions of rural workers in the Cajueiro community were also analyzed in view of the prospect of implementing the private port. The discussion focused on the organization and resistance of rural workers in Brazil, highlighting the forms of expression of working-class consciousness. Finally, the struggle of the Cajueiro community in its political consciousness movements was analyzed, highlighting its organizational and resistance forms and strategies in the struggle for land as a condition for survival. There is, political organization in this context is the expression of workers in the face of the conflict generated by capital. This study is based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, having as reference the bibliographic and documental research, to understand the central categories and their implications in the concrete reality, precisely in the Cajueiro community