A Organização dos Invisíveis: história e Desafios do MNPR

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to debate the possibilities of organizing sectors of the working class, which are on the streets. The debate falls within the scope of social movements, as one of the expressions of the class struggle in the society of capital. In this way, world experiences of organizing subordinate classes in street situations are important, since the phenomenon of pauperism is historical and has a global scale. In times of advance of neoliberalism, on the one hand, which aims at the total destruction of social rights, and on the other, of crisis of the classic instruments of organization of the working class, such as political parties and unions, launching the possibility of organizing workers in street situation becomes an even greater challenge. In Brazil, the creation of the National Movement of the Homeless Population (MNPR), in 2005, was a fundamental step in this direction. The difficulties for its creation and development go through multiple objective and subjective elements, related to the historical constitution of the Brazilian working class, marked by the violence of slavery and by the prejudices of broad sectors of society towards the population living in a situation of impoverishment on the streets of cities. In this context, the MNPR, located within the scope of social movements linked to social reproduction, constitutes a powerful instrument of struggle, showing, in its trajectory, to the present day, that the unity of formal and informal workers is the key to the possibilities of construction from another society. The maxim proclaimed: "workers from all over the world, unite" never ceased to be the order of the day.