agriculture

How Farmers Defeated the Government of India: A Year of Protests Shows the Effectiveness of Horizontality and Direct Action

In the following report, Pranav Jeevan P explores the conflict between the farmers…

The Raven #40: Genetic Modification

An issue of The Raven from Autumn 1999 covering issues around genetically modified food from various perspectives. Edited by Donald Rooum.

Leo Tolstoy eating a vegetarian breakfast.

The First Step

An 1891 work espousing complete nonviolence, stemming from vegetarianism, this essay was translated in 1909 by Aylmer Maud. Note that there are many "slightly altered" versions of this essay…

Anarchism, Mutual Aid, and Self-Organization: From the George Floyd Uprising to India’s Farmer Rebellion

The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far…

Farmers protest. Photo by Randeep Maddoke

Farmers' protests in India: resources

A compilation of resources about the current wave of strikes and protests by farmers in India, compiled by Amritpan Kaur.

For Migrant Labourers An Amnesty with Capitalism Is a Mockery

Which is worse? The hypocrisy of an Italian Minister of Agriculture shedding tears in public over…

Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for…

A photo of people who weren't Irish slaves

Debunking the myth of "Irish slaves"

A detailed, seven part series of articles by Irish historian Liam Hogan systematically demolishing the white supremacist myth of there being…

The Ifugao—People without Government

An anarchist anthropological review of the Ifugao people who constructed elaborate rice terraces without forming a government structure.

1928: The Santa Marta Massacre

Diplomatic reports from various US and Colombian government agencies and the United Fruit Company about a strike by plantation workers in 1928…

2014: Vermont Migrant Farmworkers March and Picket for Return of Withheld Pay

An acocunt of picketing by Migrant workers at a dairy in Vermont over poor living and working conditions and wage theft.

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