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When the Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra do Brasil (Movement of Landless Rural Workers’ of Brazil—MST) occupies land and forms autonomous agricultural communities, it aspires to achieve the supremacy of labor over capital and to embody socialist values. However, a policy of organizing production cooperatives on its settlements in the early 1990s was unsuccessful, principally because of a failure fully to respect traditional forms of work and sociability. However, the MST learned from its early mistakes and has since developed elaborate forms of informal and formal cooperation on land that is essentially the common property of a democratic settlement association. It is therefore living up to its socialist objectives and manifesting a real alternative to capitalist work and property relations.Cuando el Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra do Brasil (MST) ocupa tierra y forma comunidades agricolas autonomas, aspira a lograr la supremacia del trabajo sobre capital y encarnar valores sociali...

This work wants to do a geographic and historic rescue of the twenty years of the Moviment of the Landless Rural Workers in Ceara (MST-CE), from 1989 to 2009. During this years, there were several forms of Þ ght for the spacialization and the territorialization of MST have been done in Ceara those years, through: the cons icts, the occupation of the lands, the public buildings and the avenues; the marches, the presence of militants in the federal and state settlements of several programs of agrarian reform. This text is structured in four parts. The Þ rst, Introduction, we build a little line of the time of the agrarian Þ ghts from the indians to the Þ rst occupation of the land realized by the Moviment. The second, The actions of MST-Ceara, we describe their principal activities: hiking, marches, occupation of farms and public buildings in the state. The third, Territorialization of MST in Ceara, we analyze the ways for become present, recognized and respect in Ceara. And for last, The Þ nal considerations.