MST creates Marxist school in Brazil
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Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes
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{{byline|date=January 26, 2005|location=SÃO PAULO, [[w:Brazil|Brazil]]}} The [[w:Landless Workers' Movement|Landless Workers Movement (MST)]] inaugurated on Sunday the school Florestan Fernandes created by the movement. The [http://www.mst.org.br/multimidia/gfotos/escola%20nacional/enff.htm school] is located at the city of  [[w:Guararema|Guararema]], 60Km (37.282 miles) from  [[w:São Paulo|São Paulo]] and is about 30,000<math>m^2</math>. Its estimated cost was about US$ 1,3 million, the money coming from the [[w:European Union|European Union]], [[w:Non-governmental organization|NGO]]s from [[w:France|France]] and [[w:Germany|Germany]] and the MST's own finances.

The inauguration was attended by the Brazilian Minister of the Agrarian Development Miguel Rosseto, Venezuelan Education and Culture Ministeries delegates, the writer Fernando Morais among other international guests.

According to the MST the proposed courses for the school are: professorship and pedagogy (teaching), collective administration expert, general farming, movement leadership, and Human and Social Sciences.

João Pedro Stédile, a leader of the MST [http://www.vermelho.org.br/diario/2005/0124/0124_escola.asp said]:
"This school is for taking the power for the workers. So that the friends transform the scientific knowledge into instrument of liberation and not of exploitation, as they do."
He also said: 
"Our enemies are the large farmers,  the imperialism, the multinationals, the bankers, the capitalist exploitation and the ignorance. Against them we fight." According to him the school has an ideological function.

==Critics==
The Brazilian Rural Society (Sociedade Rural Brasileira-SRB) President criticized the inauguration of the school. He said “is absurd that Brazilian Courts accept the creation of a school which will teach desrespect for the Law. Instead of the Executive being there joining them, it should do something so the Law gets obeyed.” According to him the pedagody that will be followed by the MST school is concerning since it is attached to old revolutionary ideologies. He accused MST of teaching guerrilla techniques to children.

According to the President of the União Democrática Ruralista (UDR) Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, representant of the farmers, the government of the President [[w:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva|Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]] gets perverted upon the society when it supports a school which teaches invading lands. “In a country like ours, poor in education, is not acceptable that the government supports a group which acts against the Law and indoctrinates anachronistic ideologies of [[w:Che Guevara|Che Guevara]] and [[w:Fidel Castro|Fidel Castro]]”,  he added.

==References==

*{{source|url=http://br.news.yahoo.com/050124/40/r30j.html
|pub=EFE
|author=
|title= MST inaugura uma escola de capacitação técnica para camponeses
|date=January 23, 2005}} 

*{{source|url=http://br.news.yahoo.com/050123/5/r2z6.html
|pub=Reuters
|author=Marcos de Moura e Souza
|title=MST abre escola e afirma "direito" de invadir terra produtiva 
|date=January 23, 2005}} 

*{{source|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u66791.shtml
|pub=Folha de São Paulo(AF)
|author=
|title=MST inaugura escola política de R$ 3,5 mi 
|date=January 21, 2005}} 

*{{source|url=http://www.mst.org.br/informativos/minforma/ultimas458.htm
|pub=Landless Workers Movement MST
|author=
|title=MST inaugura escola nacional em Guararema (SP) 
|date=January 23, 2005}} 

*{{source|url=http://www.vermelho.org.br/diario/2005/0124/0124_escola.asp
|pub=Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)
|author=
|title=Ainda sob impacto das declarações de apoio de Lula, MST inaugura faculdade
|date=January 24, 2005}} 

 
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Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes
Photo:  MST

 The Landless Workers Movement (MST) inaugurated on Sunday the school Florestan Fernandes created by the movement. The  school is located at the city of  Guararema, 60Km (37.282 miles) from  São Paulo and is about 30,000. Its estimated cost was about US$ 1,3 million, the money coming from the European Union, NGOs from France and Germany and the MST's own finances.

The inauguration was attended by the Brazilian Minister of the Agrarian Development Miguel Rosseto, Venezuelan Education and Culture Ministeries delegates, the writer Fernando Morais among other international guests.

According to the MST the proposed courses for the school are: professorship and pedagogy (teaching), collective administration expert, general farming, movement leadership, and Human and Social Sciences.

João Pedro Stédile, a leader of the MST  said:
"This school is for taking the power for the workers. So that the friends transform the scientific knowledge into instrument of liberation and not of exploitation, as they do."
He also said: 
"Our enemies are the large farmers,  the imperialism, the multinationals, the bankers, the capitalist exploitation and the ignorance. Against them we fight." According to him the school has an ideological function.

According to the President of the União Democrática Ruralista (UDR) Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, representant of the farmers, the government of the President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gets perverted upon the society when it supports a school which teaches invading lands. “In a country like ours, poor in education, is not acceptable that the government supports a group which acts against the Law and indoctrinates anachronistic ideologies of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro”,  he added.

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