Memória e luta campesina: o protagonismo de José Francisco Avelino (Zé de Lela), no assentamento Gurugi II – município do Conde – PB

Abstract

This study investigated the performance and legacy of the Brazilian peasant Jose Francisco Avelino in the constitution of the agrarian debate in the settlement Gurugi II, within the scope of the Municipality of Conde - PB, as well as in other spaces of development of the struggle for land of the peasants in our state, between the years of 1980 and 1988. Referenced from the theoretical - methodological route, using Oral History and Memory in order to collect oral sources that established them on the protagonism of said peasant, in the problematic presented by the research were presented the memories and the stories of the peasant Jose Francisco Avelino around his family roots, his agrarian performance, his peasant performance in the Gurugi II settlement and his engagement in the struggle for peasants in Paraíba. Therefore, this qualitative and exploratory study discussed the contents of oral and written sources around the beginnings of the agrarian debate in the struggle for resistance and permanence in the land in Paraíba, through the discussion of both the struggle for land tenure of peasants and of the Settlement. Finally, the relevance of this struggle was analyzed in accordance with the consolidation of the Settlement integrated in the study and research of the agrarian question of Paraíba in 1980 and with its peasant identity in the dimensions of the agrarian debate, for the development and improvement of the campesino protagonism in Paraíba until the year 1988, that is, until the year that the resistance of the peasant José Francisco Avelino was removed.