BRAZIL - Song "Santa Elina Belongs to the Peasants"

We are very pleased to share a song in support of the struggle of the poor and landless peasants in the Santa Elina Farm. The song is called "Santa Elina Belongs to the Peasants" (original: “Santa Elina é dos camponeses”) and was released by the Brazilian group Canto Geral.

The Santa Elina Farm, in the western Amazon state of Rondônia, is an area where peasants have fought for decades, establishing Camp Manoel Ribeiro on the land last fall. The peasants of Camp Manoel Ribeiro recently broke through a police encirclement, retreating through the police siege that was part of a plan to massacre the families living there. Peasants left a banner hanging on posts that read, “We will return stronger and more prepared.”

The song includes the line "Long live the LCP" as the understanding that it is the revolutionary organization that unites the poor and landless peasants in their struggle for Agrarian Revolution.

Below is an unofficial translation of the song’s lyrics.

Soaked with the blood
 Of workers and peasants
 To the Santa Elina Farm
 We will return once again

Santa Elina belongs to the peasants
 No genocide will tear it away
 The glorious red flag
 Waves in Rondônia

The terrorist government
 Wants to murder the people
 Latifundium, their gunmen
 Kiss the military’s boot

Santa Elina belongs to the peasants
 No genocide will tear it away
 The glorious red flag
 Waves in Rondônia

The Agrarian Revolution
 Is the path of the peasants
 Give the land to those who work it
 Long live the LCP

Santa Elina belongs to the peasants
 No genocide will tear it away
 The glorious red flag
 Waves in Rondônia