Bread riots down supply chains: From Cairo to Longview
Submitted by Empire Logistics on Sep 16 2013 06:47
One of the forms in which the working class exists today is at the various nodal points along global commodity chains. Even the global production of food is increasingly based on a just-in-time system of production, distribution and consumption -- in addition to being financialized and subject to speculative bubbles. But these commodity chains are vulnerable and this suggests struggles could spread down these chains.
Levellers, True Levellers, and the Diggers of 1649
An incomplete dramatisation of the founding of the True Levellers or the "Diggers" and their first agrarian commune.
The progress of domestication - René Riesel
René Riesel’s reflections on the anti-GMO sabotage campaigns of 1998-2001 in France, the subsequent responses of the supporters of GMO research, the Montpellier and Agen trials and the resulting opportunistic political manipulations and media circuses, and the broader implications of GMOs, and the loyal opposition that wants to reinforce the power of the state in order to regulate them, within the context of the accelerating “domestication” and totalitarian conditioning of the population in a society he characterizes as a “world-laboratory where the sterilization of historical life is assayed”.
Unused farm land occupied in Vienna
Submitted by schmecks on May 7 2013 15:09
On Saturday, May 4th activists of the initiative „Solidarity Agriculture“, in short SoliLa!, occupied some farm land in the 21st district in Vienna, which was not cultivated or used in another way for years.
Bosses open fire on migrant workers in Greece
Submitted by Thrasybulus on Apr 18 2013 21:20
More than twenty migrant workers were injured when their bosses fired on them with shotguns on Wednesday.
Indonesia: How a new law on social conflict supports state repression
An analysis of how a new law (2012) in Indonesia is likely to be used in cases where corporate interests are the root cause of conflict, how such 'horizontal' conflicts can be deliberately created, and how conflict resolution is likely to produce a result in the company's favour. Translated from : Kontinum's website.
Report from autonomous peasant congress in Indonesia
Submitted by kontinum on Feb 10 2013 15:53
Short reportage from Indonesian Autonomous Peasant Congress
The grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck
Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck's realist masterpiece looks at the plight of a family of tenant farmers forced to leave Oklahoma during the great depression.
Milton Santos settlement threatened with eviction!
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on Jan 18 2013 14:01
The Milton Santos Settlement in Brazil is threatened with eviction after a struggle of more than 10 years for acquiring and maintaning their land. At this point, the struggle for land reform, one of the most meaningful social movements in Brazil, is seriously in danger and in urgent need of solidarity. We are all Milton Santos!
The Raven #17: Use of land
Issue of The Raven journal about the use of land in capitalist society. Reproduced for reference.
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