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The South African Landless People’s Movement

Steven. — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:11:11 +0000

Very brief information about the landless movement and land struggles in South Africa.

1642-1652: The Diggers and the Levellers

Steven. — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:29:59 +0000

The political and social upheaval that resulted from the English Civil War in the seventeenth century [effectively two conflicts between 1642 -1646 and 1647/48] led to the development of a set of radical ideas centred around movements known as ‘Diggers’ and ‘Levellers’

1867-2000: A people’s history of Mexico

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:10:04 +0000

The Revolution was the period which saw the Mexican state begin its transformation from an oligarchical-landowners' government to the one-party corporatist model which survived for so long

10. The Other Civil War

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:07:55 +0000

A sheriff in the Hudson River Valley near Albany, New York, about to go into the hills in the fall of 1839 to collect back rents from tenants on the enormous Rensselaer estate, was handed a letter:

... the tenants have organized themselves into a body, and resolved not to pay any more rent until

This land is ours - or is it?

Freedom — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:33:41 +0000

Land ownership is not an issue that the Left discusses very much at all. The Parliament of England and Scotland have given ramblers a limited right to roam across open countryside.

Lammas land grab

Steven. — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:59:41 +0000

Furious local people learned about the scheme only last week though discussions began in October.

Marsh Lane playing fields were singled out by the London Development Agency (LDA) as a prospective site to relocate Eastway allotments from Waterden Road, Hackney, which fall within the 2012 Olympic site.