League of Poor Peasants
The League of Poor Peasants (Brazilian Portuguese: Liga dos Camponeses Pobres, LCP) is a left-wing farmer organization based in Brazil. The LCP was formed in 1995 in reaction to the Corumbiara Massacre, when landless activists in Rondônia were killed by police and armed mercenaries. Much of the League was drawn from the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) after dissatisfaction with its agrarian reformism.

The LCP takes a radical approach to the peasant situation, supporting the occupation and transformation of large estates into productive collectives structured under People's Power Assemblies. These assemblies determine both short and long-term planning and development for the collectives, as well as its conduct.

Although not a guerrilla organization, the militancy of the LCP has brought it into much conflict with the Brazilian government, which often coordinates police interventions towards occupied camps and associated activists. The group also has faced death threats and selected assassinations from hired gunmen which the League claims is a collaborated effort between the government and landowners.

Ideology 
According to the LCP's publication Nosso Caminho (Our Path), the organization's general program outlines the goals for an agrarian revolution in the Brazilian countryside to replace latifundia with collective production and structure. The general program is defined by 15 points:

 The end of the latifundia; all land to the tillers
 The land with social destination according to interests of the majority of the people and the nation
 Nationalization of land and large rural capitalist enterprises as the final objective
 A new agricultural and credit policy to make small and medium landownership economically viable
 The creation and promotion of agro-villages and industrial application in every rural region
 The creation of a health system with needed infrastructure in the countryside
 The creation of an education system, A School of a New Type, centered on production and class struggle
 Independent social and political organization based on the direct democracy of People's Assemblies
 Special policy for the dry (semi-arid) northeast region
 Special policy for the Amazon region
 Support for the city worker struggle; strengthen the worker/peasant alliance
 Recognition and support for the self-determination of indigenous nations and peoples
 Strengthen and develop the masses' ideology/politics towards land collectivization as a final objective
 A new economy, a new culture, a new politics of new democracy, and a new People's Democratic Power
 Internationalist solidarity with the struggle of peoples against imperialism and for progress

See also 

 Landless Workers' Movement
 Agriculture in Brazil
 Agrarian Socialism

References 

Socialism in Brazil
Collectives
Agrarian politics
Social movements