An ideal landless for a national movement: MST political representations in the pages of the Landless Rural Workers’ Newspaper

Abstract

This article analyzes the representations of landless contained in the pages of the landless rural workers’ newspaper in a period of formation of the New Republic and of national articulation of landless rural workers’ movement (MST). The tabloid, organized by support entities and the MST management, became a diffusion instrument of proposals and prospects of mobilization, idealizing the landless rural worker as protagonist of the struggle for the land reform. Such representations were prepared by intellectuals, journalists, militants of the support entities and leaderships landless that, in the strains of elaboration and appropriation of the bulletin, delimited a space that, behind the apparent purposes of the struggles for land, found the struggle for communication.