Contornos de uma práxis sindical: curvatura teórica e ideológica nas concepções e práticas da central única dos trabalhadores

Abstract

For numerous analysts of the labor movement, the Central Única dos Trabalhadores would have changed their stance over the years: from a classist, confrontational practice and a socialist perspective to a conciliatory, citizen oriented trade union, based in a social democratic, reformist perspective. This work joins the interpretation of these authors and attempt to demonstrate, through analysis of the resolutions of the National Congresses of the CUT, that these changes bring a theoretical reorientation as background, culminating in an ideological stance which is reflected directly in trade union practices. The analysis begins with the revival of classical Marxist thinkers that have discussed the labor movement in their times, highlighting the importance of trade union activity. This work also search in this same framework, the fair method to forge an historical and ontological understanding. Reaches the particularities of the object passing in review the history of the "Novo Sindicalismo” and the approaches of some eminent Brazilian scholars. Finally, it explains how the (here called) curvature of the Central materializes in resolutions of its National Congresses, revealing the theoretical and ideological concepts that underpin the analysis and action plans of CUT. The replacement of the socialist references by the democratic ones, as well as a shift in strategic understanding of the State, result in a new ideological stance that implies in the valorization of the consensus, the otherness, the assimilation of mediations of capital by converting their own ultimate goals. Definitely the possibility is open for questioning the contribution of the CUT trade union movement for the advancement (or regression) of class consciousness.