"Sem arma, mas com intenção": a atuação do movimento estudantil em Pelotas no pré-golpe civil-militar ao AI-5 (1961-1968)

Abstract

The student movement (ME) in Brazil played an important role in political history during the civil-military dictatorship installed after the 1964 coup. Thought from the Brazilian political conjuncture. In the 1960s, movements and the search for a policy of inserting students in Brazilian schools and universities intensified, the ME acted in the face of local needs and debated national political agendas. This research investigates the performance of the student movement in the city of Pelotas, between the years 1961 and 1968, based on oral narratives, newspapers and documents produced by students, investigating the participation of high school and university students in political action in relation to discussions on education and politics in Brazil, identifying the local characteristics and peculiarities of organization outside the capital axis. The collaborators' narratives about the actions of students from Pelotas during the civil-military dictatorship present memories about resistance and struggle against repression experienced in the period of dissemination of the culture of fear among militant youth. Based on the methodology of Oral History, with support from the analysis of the student press, the investigation intends to highlight the active participation of the student generation of 1964, which remained active until the enactment of AI-5, in 1968.