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Five Short Articles from Mexican and Cuban Trotskyists in the 1940s - Mexican Section of the Fourth International, Workers' Socialist Group, & Labour Youth

Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils Issue 37, August-September 1947 p. 10-13…

Russian peasants early 20th Century

The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

Development Lines in Agriculture, 1930

Written in 1930, this pamphlet thoroughly details the development of European agriculture from 1900-27. Based their research, the Group of International Communists conclude that in all European agriculture, production was effectively 'social', and thus, able to be integrated into a communist mode of production. This article provides important context for the GIC's parallel text, Fundamental Principles of Communist…

Photograph of fields showing crops and grazing cattle.

The Raven #30: New Life To The Land?

1995 issue of the anarchist journal published by Freedom Press. Articles on land.

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 A 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…

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.