As esquerdas entre os estudantes: memórias dos militantes estudantis juizforano durante a transição democrática brasileira (1974-1984)

Abstract

The Student Movement played an important role in Brazilian scenery in the 1970’s and 1980’s, since it fought against the arbitrariness of military government and for the democratic freedoms, composing important political actions and propelling the society to return to the streets. To demonstrate the relevance and perform an analysis of its performing, this dissertation aims to analyze the trajectory of the reported movement in Juiz de Fora – MG, from 1974 to 1984, especially by means of memories of the militant students. Thus, this research intended to contribute to the comprehension about the role of the Student Movement (SM) in the process of Brazilian democratic transition. To this end, it sought to realize the influence of SM in social and political ambits, highlighting the dynamics of internal trends of different ideological basis of The Left, which often led to conflicts within the movement, trying to understand how much these trends were protagonists of a fight for the same goal: democracy. Thereby, we present the memories of militant students, a fundamental part of this research, about the period lived in times of political openness and democratic struggle, from which we could define the Juiz de Fora SM trajectory and analyze the performance of the subjects in this history.