On this page, you will find the details pertaining to MST from the full report on the World Meeting of Popular Movements from 2025. From the table of contents below, you can jump to other parts of the report.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary
Introduction
The Venue
The Participants
- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST)
- Mediterranea Saving Humans
- Union de Trabajadores de la Economia Popular (UTEP)
- La Via Campesina
- PICO California
- Asociación de Víctimas de Accidentes y Enfermedades Laborales de Andalucía (AVAELA)
- Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM)
- Comite de Unidad Campesina (CUC)
- Coordinador Nacional Agrario CNA
- FRENADESO
- CENARAB
- Coordinadora Social Shishigang (CSS)
The Final Declaration
Papal Condemnations of both Communism and Socialism
Conclusion
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST)
Not only is MST a member of the Organizing Committee for the WMPM, but it has featured prominently in some Vatican-sponsored events. During the private audience with Pope Leo, Ayala Ferreira of the MST National Board presented Pope Leo with a tapestry depicting the pagan deity Ossanha – a god of plants and herbs, of magic, and is considered to be a “guardian of sacred leaves.”
In the official 9-minute video of the 5th World Meeting of Popular Movements, Ferreira is interviewed at around the 3:00 point of the video.
Ferreira acknowledges that MST is a socialist organization: as she stated during an interview in 2025:
We are clear about this. And we are not ashamed to affirm socialism as this project that opposes and can oppose the hegemony of capitalism.
In our initial report on MST, we provided two videos illustrating just how thoroughly infused with Communist ideologies the organization truly is. This first video shows a family read-aloud of the Communist Manifesto, with the MST flag in the background, as the International – the official hymn of the Communist Party – plays in the background.
This second video is of the official anthem for MST. The lyrics are clearly Marxist in nature and advocate rebellion and use of force. Here is a portion of the lyrics for the MST anthem:
Come, let us weave our freedom
With strong arms that break the soil
Beneath the shadow of our valor
Let us unfurl our rebellion
And plant ourselves in this land as brothers!
Come, let us fight with fists raised high
Our strength empowers us to build
Our homeland, free and strong
Constructed by the power of the people
With arms raised, let us dictate our history
Forcefully stifling the oppressors
Let us hoist the colorful banner
Let us awaken this slumbering homeland
Tomorrow belongs to us, the workers!
In this video, published on MST’s Facebook page in February of 2024, young people – including one wearing a red shirt with the letters “CCCP” on it – recite portions of the Communist manifesto, expressing MST’s commitment to follow its precepts.
On 14 March 2025, MST celebrated the anniversary of Karl Marx’s death in the same way that Catholics commemorate the death anniversary of saints.
The Communist nature of MST is undeniable. And as much as it is a Communist organization, it is also stridently pro-abortion.
On 29 September 2018, MST posted a picture of a banner that reads (in English): “Legal and safe abortion. It’s for the lives of women!”
The Facebook post linked to an article (no longer available) on MST’s own website. The article declared:
The decriminalization of abortion is more than just a feminist issue! It’s an issue for all fighters for social justice and new social, human, and anti-capitalist relationships. Because it is within capitalism, with its patriarchal society, that women and their bodies are exploited in work, sex, and reproduction.
MST maintained its call to fight for the decriminalization of abortion in a Facebook post of 28 September 2023.
On 10 March 2025, MST posted on Facebook photos of its participation in a pro-abortion march, which indicated that it had signed a manifesto with the slogan “Women in defense of democracy, for dignified work, legalization of abortion, repair and Well Living!”
The post also linked to an article on MST’s website, providing the full text of the manifesto it signed. Regarding abortion, the Manifesto expressly states:
The Right to Our Bodies: Guaranteeing the Right to Legal Abortion and Arguing for the Legalization of Abortion.
We fight for all women and pregnant women to have autonomy over their bodies. The right to decide on the capacity to gestate is an essential part of decisions about the course of our lives. In our patriarchal society, motherhood is seen as a compulsory destiny for women.
We are all clandestine, but those who have money and information terminate unwanted pregnancies safely. Black women are the most harmed when they resort to unsafe abortions and are the ones who die most often.
We denounce the actions of the far right in Brazil and their fundamentalist war against our reproductive rights. Those who advocate for death do not care about the lives of women, much less children, the greatest victims of patriarchal violence and sexual abuse in our country, who are being forced to give birth to other children!
That’s why we shout: a child is not a mother! A rapist is not a father! We will fight against any setbacks regarding legal abortion services. It’s for women’s lives! Legalize abortion, the right to our bodies! For this, the radical defense of strengthening the SUS (Brazilian Public Health System) and the implementation of guidance protocols on the right to abortion as provided for by law in health units are inseparable! (emphasis added)
In addition to being an openly Communist and pro-abortion organization, MST gives full-throated support for homosexuality and transgenderism.
On 6 May 2024, MST celebrated “the 1st National Meeting of Transvestites and Transsexuals of MST.
On 29 January 2019, MST celebrated the “Trans Day of Visibility in Brazil.”
On 24 March 2020, MST posted about the linkage between transgender ideologies and the land workers movement. The post linked to an article that declared: “We are in the same fight. If there is sexism and LGBTphobia, there is no land reform.”
On 29 January 2025, MST again celebrated the Trans Day of Visibility, stating:
Recognizing this presence and strengthening the organization of trans and transvestite people in the field is to reaffirm that the fight for land is also a fight against all forms of oppression.
As can be seen, because of its socialist character, its support of abortion, LGBT issues, and transgenderism, an organization like MST has absolutely no business being anywhere near official functions of the Catholic Church, much less as an integral aspect of one of Her major projects. And yet, MST has been with the WMPM since the beginning, and is a member of the Organizing Committee. And lest it be forgotten, it is important to reiterate the fact that a functional element of the WMPM is to include delegations from local Churches, with official mandates, to accompany the attending organizations like MST.
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