Resistence and struggle of the student movement in Catolé do Rocha-1968/1971

Abstract

The article seeks to rescue the historical trajectory of the student movement in Catolé do Rocha, sertão paraibano, as well as the forms of culture and political resistance in 1960/70, that developed in the military regime. Young students formed study groups, theater groups formed, organized libraries and took advantage in the fight against the dictatorship and for a just society, fraternal and egalitarian: a socialist society. This youth, moved by the rebellion and the radicalism, assumed an important struggle influenced by leftist movements and the Cuban revolution. As part of this plot, merge-if memory and history, culture and politics and passion for the revolutionary cause. It was with this spirit of struggle and self-denial that youth catoleense encountered during what became known as the "years of lead.