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Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - by Gaston Leval (2018 Updated & Improved Edition)

A new, updated, and improved edition of a classic of anarcho-syndicalist economics -- a detailed eyewitness and analysis of the successes and struggles of a libertarian socialist economy

“Dalawang Magbubukid” ni Errico Malatesta

A 1913 Tagalog translation of Errico Malatesta's “Between Peasants” or “Fra Contadini.”
An introduction to anarchism and anarcho-communism written as a dialogue between two farmers.

1968-1969: Pakistani students, workers, and peasants bring down a dictator

Submitted by Reddebrek on Jul 10 2018 19:03

An account of the waves of strikes and protests against the inequality, brutality and corruption of Pakistans military dictatorship.

The Hebridean Land Revolt

Submitted by DD on Mar 2 2018 10:18

An 1884 London Illustrated News portrayal of a crofters' rally

The Hebridean land revolt was a major uprising by the rural peasantry in 19th-century Scotland. Rents went unpaid. Fences were cut in the night. Land was illegally occupied. Telegraph poles were cut down. Roads were blocked with boulders. And government officials were attacked and beaten by mobs of women and men and children. Finally, in November 1884, the British government authorised a military invasion, dispatching gunboats and hundreds of marines.

The veins of Latin America are more open than ever – Miguel Amorós

The text of a 2017 presentation on the key role of extractive industries in contemporary world capitalism, their effect on the “territory” and its inhabitants, the left-wing parties’ support for export-oriented capitalist development that devastates the rural areas of their countries in exchange for funds to finance social programs, the importance of the “new middle classes” in serving as mediators for the rule of multinational corporations in Latin America, the fraud of “civil society” movements and their promotion of “sustainable development”, and the crucial role of peasant and indigenous movements in complementing urban struggles for “self-governed life in common”.

Beyond the Peasant International - Wildcat

Wildcat (Germany) article assessing the "New Peasant Movements". Published in issue 82 of their magazine, autumn 2008.

Sicilian Fasci movement, 1893-4

Submitted by Steven. on Jul 31 2017 10:11

A short overview of the radical, socialistic Fasci movement of peasants and agricultural labourers in Sicily in the late 19th century.

A short history of enclosure in Britain

Submitted by Steven. on Jul 21 2017 17:29

Countryside illustration by Clifford Harper

Simon Fairlie describes how the progressive enclosure of commons over several centuries has deprived most of the British people of access to agricultural land. The historical process bears little relationship to the “Tragedy of the Commons”, the theory which ideologues in the neoliberal era adopted as part of a smear campaign against common property institutions.

A journey into libertarian historical memory; Casas Viejas, January 1933

Submitted by Steven. on May 15 2017 16:56

The aftermath of the massacre at Casas Viejas

A short history of the tragically unsuccessful uprising of anarchist peasants in the small town of Casas Viejas which ended in a brutal massacre of the participants by the Republican government.