LONDON — With signs reading “Stop killing farming” and “No farmers, no food, no future,” up to 100 tractors descended on Parliament Square here March 25. Organized by the recently established Fairness for Farmers of Kent, the protest was the…
Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…
ATHENS, Greece — Over 6,000 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Greek parliament here Feb. 20. Working people lined the sidewalk clapping and raising clenched fists as nearly 200 tractors caravanned into the city center. The tractorcade was joined…
Long lines of French farmers driving their tractors blocked traffic around Paris and across France Jan. 29, demanding the government of President Emmanuel Macron and European Union officials put an end to policies that threaten their livelihoods. Faced with skyrocketing…
Some 5,000 tractors and 30,000 protesters brought Berlin’s city center to a standstill Jan. 15 as farmers protested rising prices and German government plans to cut agricultural fuel subsidies, above. Arriving overnight from across the country, farmers parking tractors nose-to-tail…
FRESNO, Calif. — Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, addressed a meeting of the African American Farmers of California at a local restaurant here Aug. 11. Thirteen people took part. In brief remarks, Garza noted…
QUITMAN, Ga. — “It was good to discuss some of our problems,” Edward Collier told the Militant, after a May 20 gathering of Black farmers in the community of Dixie. Held at the Friendship AME Church, the forum drew 20…
DIMMITT, Texas — A fire quickly spread through the giant South Fork Dairy structure, a few miles outside of town here, killing some 18,000 cows and critically injuring a worker April 10. A town of 4,200, Dimmitt is the seat…
“We lost money for nearly two years solid,” Roy Gallie, chairperson of the Irish Farmers’ Association Pigs Committee, told the Militant by phone April 16. Last year he helped organize protests at retailers to highlight the fact that prices paid…
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 475 farmers, ranchers and other members of the National Farmers Union held their 121st Anniversary Convention here March 5-7. The NFU includes capitalist, middle and working farmers. The presentations and discussions reflected the consequences of today’s…
