Connections between the Brazilian Workers' Confederation and the northern region: militancy and workers' press in Amazonas and Pará (1906-1920)

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the connections between the Brazilian Workers' Confederation (COB), also considering the three Brazilian Workers' Congresses (1906, 1913 and 1920), and the North region of the country. For this, the working press was used as the main source, which had a primordial role as a mediating and linking instrument between the different parts of the country and the world. It was animated by activists who also circulated in various regions of the national territory and who carried with them a wealth of experiences of organization and social struggle. In this sense, socially constructed contacts and connections enabled the constitution of a circuit through which information about the organizational and struggle process of workers began to circulate, and allowed the circulation of social analyzes and, consequently, models of organization, action and fight. The COB and the three Congresses are effects of this process.

Keywords

• brazilian workers' confederation
• workers' press
• north region