The interfaces of the social issue expressed in the struggles for the right to the city

Abstract

This paper is product of a research about the interfaces of the social question with the struggle for city rights, this research was carried out from interviews with resident women of social occupations organized for Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto (Homeless Workers Movement) in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil). Was developed from oral history and using Marxist theories, with emphasis to Henri Lefebvre, José de Souza Martins works, with productions about Fundamentals of Social Work area. As results its stands out the processes of exclusion and poverty corroborate with histories and life conditions reported by these women, which ones intertwine with the collective dimension of dreams and struggles around the housing conquest, as collective dimensions of sociability and ways of living guides by ties of class solidarity, fostering the political organization of these women in the dispute of urban space and the claiming of city rights.