O sindicato combativo na região de Marabá durante a redemocratização entre 1978 a 1985: transformações socioeconômicas, formação das oposições e conquista do sindicato

Abstract

The present study analyzes the unfolding of the socioeconomic transformations that occurred during the period of the redemocratization of Brazil in the Marabá region. It seeks to contextualize the results of the changes that have occurred since the Amazonian Development Project forged by the military after the 1964 civil-military coup. These policies, combined with factors such as unemployment, mainly in the Brazilian Northeast and to some extent throughout Brazil, attracted thousands of people in search of land, work or employment. From the 1970, the federal government's colonization project gave way to an intense program of fiscal incentives granted to companies and individuals who wanted to invest in the region, especially in agricultural and mining-metallurgical projects. This, together with the opening of a road network, intensified a migratory process that culminated in intense disputes and land conflicts involving the various segments of society. The resurgence of violence in the countryside unleashed a number of forms of resistance of workers who with support from progressive sectors of the Church, and a number of other entities, in addition to numerous men and women committed to human rights, justice resisted authoritarianism, discourse of criminalization and against violence. The peasant organization from the unions, had to be built gradually. It was about a decade of struggle, from the creation of the Association of Rural Workers of Conceição do Araguaia in 1971 until the creation of the STR of Marabá. Aware of the importance that these studies on the region have for teaching in the region, we try to discuss ways of using this research in the teaching of Local History.