Black resistences against capital: Laudelina de Melo Campos and Minervino de Oliveira

Black resistance against capital: Laudelina de Melo Campos and Minervino de Oliveira

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the reality of the black working class in Brazil in the post-abolition period faced with the unequal structures established between white and black workers, through the struggle and resistance of Minervino de Oliveira and Laudelina de Melo Campos, who are emblematic figures and of great relevance not only to the history of the working class in Brazil and black, but also for the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). Laudelina has always been a militant, fought not only for the rights of domestic workers, but against exploitation of the entire working class, being a reference to this day for the struggle of domestic workers. Minervino in turn, assiduous militant had a trajectory of struggle throughout his life, always in favor of the working class and the black population, was the target of persecution for his grassroots work and his political actions. Thus, rescuing the story of Laudelina and Minervino it is to revive the struggle for the real emancipation of the working class and for the rupture of bourgeois hegemony.