[Marxism] World Farmers’ Alliance Challenges Food Profiteers

[Ian Angus]

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WORLD FARMERS' ALLIANCE CHALLENGES FOOD PROFITEERS

La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants.
by Annette Aurélie Desmarais.
Fernwood Publishing, 2007.

Reviewed by John Riddell

The neoliberal assault that has driven labour into retreat over the
last two decades has also sparked the emergence of a peasants’
international, La Vía Campesina. Rooted in 56 countries across five
continents, this alliance has mounted a sustained and spirited defense
of peasant cultivation, community, and control of food production.
Annette Desmarais’s book on La Vía Campesina has given us a probing
and perceptive account of the world peasant movement’s origins,
outlook, and activities

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