The first land occupations practiced by the landless rural workers movement (MST) in rio grande do norte, Brazil

The study is the result of research carried out on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), focusing on the first occupations carried out by the MST in Rio Grande do Norte (RN) in Vale do Açu. The arrival of militants from the Movement of the Landless to RN in 1989, and the initial relationship established between them and the PT militants of the city of Açu, will enable those to start organizing it in the state. Even in that city, the MST will install a Secretariat that made it possible to expand its contacts with leaders of the MSTR (Rural Workers Union Movement) and leaders of the Rural unions in the municipalities of Açu, Ipanguaçu, Carnaubais, Jucurutu, São Rafael, Santana of Matos. However, the consolidation process of the aforementioned Movement is taking shape based on several situations: conquests of the settlement areas, its action within the union movement, its constitution as a political reference of a part of the peasantry, in addition to its role in shock and negotiation with the State, that is, in the game of class struggle.