Garanhuns sob o símbolo do sigma : o cotidiano dos integralistas entre comunistas e o Estado Novo (1935-1942)

Abstract

The October Manifesto of 1932, written by Plinio Salgado, marked the beginning of the activities of the Ação Integralista Brasileira (AIB) in the political and intellectual in the country. In Pernambuco, some students of the Faculdade de Direito do Recife (FDR) assumed leadership of the movement. During the year 1935 with the start of campaigning for local elections, also began a process of expansion of the AIB-PE by cities, being implemented at the time a core Garanhuns on June 29. After three months of operation of the headquarters, the fundamentalist’s garanhuenses created a newspaper called The Reason, the main vehicle for dissemination of the movement among the inhabitants of the municipality. Through this journal, the militants tried to make the thought of AIB to the daily political and social of that city, especially as concerned to combat alleged communist threat. However, with the implementation of the Estado Novo in November 10, 1937, the regime gave way to a democratic government of authoritarian tendencies. Thereafter, the fundamentalist entered illegally, and the essays of their newspapers closed and its members persecuted by agents of the Bureau of Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social (DOPS). This change in the national political scene has directly interfered in the daily social fundamentalist’s of Garanhuns, who suffered police repression and the threat of popular AIB also saw a danger in the order established by the new political regime in the country.