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{{Short description|Social movement for land reform in Brazil}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox organization | name = Landless Workers' Movement | native_name = Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra | former_name = | image = | image_border = | size = <!-- default 200px --> | alt = <!-- alt text; see [[WP:ALT]] --> | caption = | map = | map_size = <!-- map size, optional, default 250px --> | map_alt = <!-- map alt text --> | map_caption = | map2 = | abbreviation = | motto = | predecessor = | successor = | formation = January 1984 | founder = <!-- or | founders = --> | extinction = <!-- {{End date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | merger = | merged = | type = <!-- [[Governmental organization|GO]], [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]], [[Intergovernmental organization|IGO]], [[International nongovernmental organization|INGO]], etc --> | status = [[Social movement]] | purpose = [[agrarian society|Agrarian]] [[land reform]] | professional_title = <!-- for professional associations --> | headquarters = | location = | coords = <!-- Coordinates of location using {{Coord}} --> | region_served = | services = Land reform movement, squatting (primary); basic healthcare and education (secondary) | membership = 1,500,000 | language = | general = <!-- Secretary General --> | leader_title = | leader_name = [[João Pedro Stédile]] | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = Núcleo de Base | parent_organization = National Coordination Body | subsidiaries = | affiliations = | budget = | num_staff = | num_volunteers = | slogan = | website = https://mst.org.br | remarks = | footnotes = }} [[Image:Mst conabNove2004.jpg|thumb|300px|MST supporters in [[Brazil]].]] The '''Landless Workers' Movement''' ({{langx|pt|Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra}}, '''MST''') is a [[social movement]] in Brazil aimed at [[land reform]]. Inspired by [[Marxism]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/formulario_cemarx/selecao/2012/trabalhos/6142_Feix_Plinio.pdf|title=O Pensamento Marxista no Projeto Político dos Dirigentes do MST|date=2012|access-date=2017-11-10|publisher=Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP)|last=Feix|first=Plínio José|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416071828/http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/formulario_cemarx/selecao/2012/trabalhos/6142_Feix_Plinio.pdf|archive-date=2016-04-16|url-status=live}}</ref> it is the largest such movement<ref>Anders Corr, ''No trespassing!: squatting, rent strikes, and land struggles worldwide''. New York: South End Press, 1999, {{ISBN|0-89608-595-3}}, page 146 in 2007</ref> in [[Latin America]], with an estimated informal membership of 1.5 million<ref>Herbert Girardet, ed. ''Surviving the century: facing climate chaos and other global challenges''. London, Earthscan, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-84407-458-7}}, page 185</ref> across 23 of Brazil's 26 states.<ref>Dave Hill & Ravi Kumar, eds., ''Global neoliberalism and education and its consequences''. New York: Routledge, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-415-95774-8}}, page 146</ref> MST defines its goals as access to the land for poor workers through [[land reform]] in Brazil, and activism around social issues that make land ownership more difficult to achieve, such as unequal [[income distribution]], [[racism]], [[sexism]], and media monopolies.<ref>"Nossos objetivos". MST page, {{cite web |url=http://www.mst.org.br/node/7703 |title=Nossos Objetivos | MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra |access-date=2012-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902042649/http://www.mst.org.br/node/7703 |archive-date=2012-09-02 }}. Retrieved September 1, 2012</ref> MST strives to achieve a self-sustainable way of life for the rural poor.<ref name="James">{{cite book |title= Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform|last= James|first= Deborah|year= 2007|publisher= Routledge Cavendish|location= New York, New York|isbn= 978-0-415-42031-0|pages= 148–149}}</ref> The MST differs from previous land reform movements in its single-issue focus; land reform for them is a self-justifying cause. The organization maintains that it is legally justified in occupying unproductive land, pointing to the most recent{{when|date=March 2024}} [[Constitution of Brazil]] (1988), which contains a passage saying that land must fulfill a social function (Article 5, XXIII). The MST also notes, based on 1996 census statistics, that a mere 3% of the population owns two-thirds of all [[arable land]] in Brazil.<ref>[http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=about About the MST] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627093457/http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=about |date=2019-06-27 }} on mstbrazil.org. Accessed September 9, 2006.</ref> In 1991, MST received the [[Right Livelihood Award]] "for winning land for landless families, and helping them to farm it sustainably."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/movimento-dos-trabalhadores-rurais-sem-terra-mst/|title=Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST) |website=The Right Livelihood Award|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065917/https://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/movimento-dos-trabalhadores-rurais-sem-terra-mst/|archive-date=2018-08-24|url-status=live}}</ref>
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