Président #peasant makes a fool of himself again in front of the world.
My Grandparents had a Grade 4 Education

Life in the Peasant Lane

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Improvised weapons of peasant militiamen, Germany, 16th century AD

Today in Labor History February 10, 1892: Four farmworkers were executed during the repression following the January 8 uprising in Jerez, Andalusia, setting off new waves of violence. In January, hundreds of farm workers calling for "social revolution," took over Jerez. On September 24, 1893, anarchist Paulí Pallàs tried to assassinate Catalonia Captain General Arsenio Martínez Campos during a military parade in Barcelona in retaliation for the state repression of the Jerez uprising.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #revolt #prison #execution #anarchism #andalucia #atentat #assassinaton #barcelona

Vincent van Gogh
The Smoker Peasant
1888
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#Peasant #VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #art #painting
The idea that the #leaders of #nations at war should be off-limits is a relic of the days when #kings and noble #knights expected to be treated respectfully by their counterparts on the other side while they all cheerfully trampled #peasant #soldiers into the mud. Let it and them die.

→ The planet, and human social life, depend on #peasant #farmers
https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-and-human-social-life-depend-on-peasant-farmers

“Peasants, who directly manage about 10% of the land on Earth […] supply a countervailing principle to corporate extractionism and short-termism. They also preserve critical local #knowledge of land and #weather systems, and the interactions of #plants and #animals. The #peasantry is one of #humanity’s most crucial #economic, #social and #ecological resources […]”

#life #land #human #Earth #planet

The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays

Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction

This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have…

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Today in Labor History August 19, 1920: A peasant insurrection began in Tambov, USSR, over the confiscation of their grain. Led by Alexander Antonov, a former official of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Green Army uprising evolved into a guerrilla war against the Red Army, Cheka Units and the Soviet authorities. The Bolsheviks finally suppressed the revolt in June, 1921. 240,000 died in the rebellion and over 50,000 were imprisoned. They also used chemical weapons on the peasants. Dissident writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wrote about it in a short story in his book, “Apricot Jam and other Stories,” (2010).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #uprising #rebellion #revolt #russia #CivilWar #soviet #ussr #communism #tambov #fiction #writer #books #author @bookstadon