"Preparando a guerrilha": da formação das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base ao resgate da experiência histórica de Belo Monte/Canudos

Abstract

The present paper aims to study the historical experience of the Ecclesial Base Communities in Monte Santo during the year 1980 and how the process of becoming a community was simultaneously rescuing the memory and lessons of the experience of Bello Monte and Antonio Counselor, destroyed 120 years ago (1897-2017) by the forces of the Brazilian army, performing at the same time their own experience of liberation. We call attention to the formative character of another consciousness among the peasants, possible through the interweaving of elements of past experiences and concrete experience of transformation of present reality projecting in the future a new social organization. We begin with the experiences of the workers themselves involved in the process, illuminated by the Dialectical Historical Materialism, fundamentally of the British Marxist historiography of "Downview History", highlighting their speeches and struggles against the forces opposed to the work of the New Canudos Movement, represented by landowners, colonels and clergy. Thus, we also seek to make a small contribution to the history of this movement.