Opened at the Agricultural Exhibition Park in Salvador, Bahia, on Monday, the event aims to strengthen the MST’s strategic plan for the struggle for land, the construction of Popular Agrarian Reform, and the accumulation of forces toward socialism.

Over the five days of activities, the event addresses the role of capital in agriculture, the Brazilian economic and political situation, and the Movement’s work as a force, while also assessing the organization’s actions in education, agroecology, cooperation, and agro-industrialization.

During the opening session of the forum on Monday, in the presence of 3,000 activists nationwide, a panel discussion was held on global geopolitics and the current international situation, featuring journalist Breno Altman and Stephanie Weatherbee, an activist with the International Articulation of Peoples.

Both figures referred in their remarks to the crisis of hegemony of US imperialism.

The previous National Meeting of the MST was held in 2009 in Sarandi, Rio Grande do Sul, to commemorate the organization’s 25th anniversary, and was attended by 1,500 rural workers.

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