O pólo sindical do submédio São Francisco: das lutas por reassentamento à incorporação do cultivo de maconha na agenda

Abstract

This paper tries to analyze, in a critical way, the syndicalism in the Polo Sindical do Submédio São Francisco, inserted in a region identified by the Press as the Hemp Polygon. It intends to understand, from the field work, the insertion of the subject of the hemp plantation (criminalized) in the agenda of the Polo Sindical do Submédio São Francisco. The study intends to understand this phenomenon through a historical retrospection and an analysis about the region understood as a social-political production of territorialities. Also, it develops an attempt of explanation of the crossing between illegal agriculture and the dynamic of syndical struggle for the recovery of the version which the entity produces and legitimates as its biography in order to understand how and by whom the justification of that crossing is built. In this process of sociological undoing of the Hemp Polygon, it is shown how, when and through which means the subject of the illegal cultivation enters the agenda of the entity.