A reorganização do movimento estudantil na Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (1976-1978)

Abstract

In the midst of the commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964"s military coup and the growing expansion of access to the documentary mass on the Brazilian military dictatorship, This research was developed with the purpose of analyzing the reorganization of the Student"s Movement at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES, in Portuguese), specifically between 1976 and 1978. The temporal cut prioritizes the initial phase of the political reopening process the country has been through, at which time several sectors of opposition to the dictatorship began to find possibilities to expand their activities of resistance to the military regime, restructuring themselves and making their actions even more vigorous. Among these groups the student militants stood out, mainly in Espírito Santo, wich constituted the pioneer sector in the fight against dictatorship. It was verified in the course of the studies that since 1964"s coup, UFES suffered from repression, having been carried out through four stages, with defined specifics marks. Thus, the present study favors the last one, in which there is a resumption of the Student"s Movement activities at national level, beginning in 1976, with the mobilizations that were intended to reorganize the National Union of Students (UNE, in Portuguese). At the same time, UFES" students began their mobilizations through activities called out by the main Academic Directories in operation: the DA of Legal and Economic Sciences (DACCJE, in Portuguese) and the DA of the Biomedical Sciences Center (DACBM, in Portuguese), culminating in the subsequent reopening of its maximum organizative entity within the University, the Central Directory of Students (DCE, in Portuguese) in 1978. This research aims to understand capixaba Student"s Movement restruturation process, leaded by universitary students, starting on a criterious analysis of several documentary sources that corroborated the assertion that the ME (Student Movement), although severely repressed within the University itself, was able to create adequate subterfuge to the historical moment faced at the time and to continue the struggle against the repressive system, until it was able to strengthen itself to the point of unify In favor of student rights and so-called democratic freedoms.