As lutas operárias na fronteira: A chacina dos quatro As (Livramento / RS 1950)

Abstract

The purpose of this master dissertation is to highlight the historical role of the working class on the border of Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay, specifically in the town of Santana do Livramento. In September 1950, in the context of elections for president, there was a dramatic episode in the town of Livramento - more specifically, at International Park, in the border with Rivera, Uruguayan city. The Communist Party was in illegality and in clandestinity and the police had warned them that they would not allowed actions of its militants - more clearly, they would not allowed to graffiti the candidates' names defended by the PCB. A group of communists, however, has decided to do some graffiti in the city and it is repressed. The form of repression occurs with the use of firearms and four militants were killed. This study aims to analyze the workers' struggle and the communists in Livramento, taking this episode, occurred in the city in September 1950, as emblematic of social and political struggle in the period. This paper focuses on the relationship between the union activities of the strikers from Armour‟s frigorific and the slaughter of these workers, as activists from PCB in 1950, at International Park. The anticommunist policy of President Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1946-1951) and its alignment with the Truman Doctrine, defended by the United States, are important for explaining the circumstances experienced by the gauchos Communists in 1950. The episode of the death of the communists was known as "The Slaughter of the four A's", because the four dead communists had their names started with the letter "A": Ari, Abdias, Aladdin and Aristides.