In this article, we deal specifically with the strike movements as manifestations of militant appropriation of the corporative political form, that is, manifestations of the radicalization and the discourse confrontation and the entities' actions attached to their struggle for a better efficacy of the politics. In this analysis, we cannot ignore the special circumstance where the manifestations of this appropriation took place. The points that interest us more directly are the intensive movement of the civil society in 1934 and 1935 and the higher aggressiveness of the Communist Party. We discuss two specific kinds of strikes: those that counted on the support of the official trade unions and the one that made itself in absentia of the Trade Union - the Oeste de Minas Railway strike. The third type, that has the Trade Union's support but not the accession of the bases, the Bank Clerk's strike, is not analyzed because of limitations on the article size.
strike; official trade unions; corporatism