leaders vowed to ease the burden of environmental rules in an attempt to quell protests by , who demolished statues and started fires in Brussels during a summit on Thursday. European …

The current revival has deep historical roots. Its origins lay in the restructuring of American capitalism beginning in the 1970s. The decades since have witnessed a steady rise in social inequality and economic insecurity and a concomitant decline in wage growth and unionization (a familiar story for advanced capitalist democracies during these years).

‘s are in revolt. The fury has led to road blockages and tractor parades in the past few weeks, with taking their protests to the street in France, Germany, Poland and …

falls out of favor. In 1917 at the height of World War I, a group of tenant in Oklahoma staged a revolt along the banks of the South Canadian River. This uprising, known as the Green Corn Rebellion, was in protest of the country’s forced draft or conscription policy. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, “men …

Published in May 2020, the F2F strategy outlines how the wants to overhaul the food system to make it “fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.”. This future “ to fork” food system would incorporate primary production (farming), the supply (value) chain and consumption. It shall have a neutral or positive environmental impact …

is a think tank that aims to stimulate thinking on rural economies in the . The think tank focuses on all policy areas that impact on rural business with a strong emphasis on agriculture and food policies, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but also food standards, the food chain, environment, energy and trade issues.

and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate. May 2021. New Political Economy 28 (3):1-12. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1926958. Authors: Roland Boer. To read the full-text of …

has never worked. It didn’t work before, or after, WW1 & WW2. It’s on life support now, and modern only thrives in because of the USA. Now that the US is declining, economically and culturally, we see that ‘s is finally coming to fruition; and it’s falling apart everywhere. Cypurs, Greece, Spain, etc.

’s agricultural sector is giving a different meaning to “farm-to-road” as a wave of has been spreading across the continent, demanding government policies to reflect the needs of the industry. The Netherlands started the wave with Dutch staging over their government’s environmental regulations proposals …

This is the third story in a three-part Mongabay miniseries on the Dutch nitrogen crisis and of 2022: The Dutch, and , green agenda crashes into the continent’s food systems.

The history of the Group is a story of passion, conviction and perseverance in the pursuit of social justice and a fairer . From its humble beginnings as a group of like-minded socialists who joined forces to promote European unity in the aftermath of World War II, the Group has grown into a formidable political force that champions the values of democracy, solidarity, and progress.

The historical legacy of work relations in agriculture is discussed in Section 3. To clarify terms, some formal notation is introduced first. A model of monetary pay systems Consider a worker supplying effort to the production process of a . The ’s revenue e accrues q to the owner and is a function of e. However, because …

Merriam-Webster defines as “ any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”, or more succinctly, as “a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state”.

In the years to come, highly varying privatization and reform policies across the region turned the set of post- countries into a laboratory of restructuring. After the first transition decade, Swinnen and Rozelle ( 2006 ) documented how land restitution, the rise of land rental and the recapitalization of large farms had spurred …

world, where used new technologies and practices to increase productivity in a range of social, economic, political, and climatic con-ditions. First in the United States, and then in in the postwar years, came to rely on what one historian labels “the whole package of modernity,” including irrigation, chemicals …

The Common Agricultural Policy is funded through the budget. Under the ‘s budget for 2021-2027, €386.6 billion has been set aside for farming. It is divided into two parts: €291.1 billion for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, which provides income support for . €95.5 billion for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural …

The strategy would devastate . The U.S. Department of Agriculture finds that the strategy’s goals of reducing farmland by 10%, fertilizer by 20%, and pesticides and …

Convoys with hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at the Union headquarters in Brussels. #Live # # Read more …

In both countries, have been co-opted by far-right movements seeking to use the ’ discontent for political gain ahead of the election in June. The Brussels was no exception, and was joined by Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen and also the lead candidate of the French far-right Reconquête party …

Introduction This examines the long-standing clash between and Marxism, and Classical Liberalism over the past 200 years or so. It provides a brief history of the tradition, some of its main criticisms of the free market, the classical liberal response to these criticisms, extensive quotes from some of these texts, and links to them in the OLL collection. For additional …

On Tuesday, blocked roads around the Belgian port of Antwerp, the second-largest in , most of the day. The disruption followed earlier protests at the port, 60 kilometers (40 miles …

Revisionism. After Engels’s death in 1895, Marx’s followers split into two main camps: “revisionist” Marxists, who favoured a gradual and peaceful transition to , and revolutionary Marxists, among them the leaders of the communist Russian Revolution of 1917. The foremost revisionist was Eduard Bernstein, a leader of the Social …

During the period, as was also the case in the other countries, the term “cooperative” was misused to mean the enforced collectivization of family farms. This process began in Romania in May 1949 and, after much resistance from the , was finalized in March 1962 ( Iordachi and Dobrincu, 2014 ).

The focus in is on benefitting society, whereas capitalism seeks to benefit the individual. Socialists claim that a capitalistic economy leads to inequality, with unfair distribution of wealth and individuals who use their power at the expense of society. strives, ideally, to control the economy to avoid the problems …

Tuesday 06 February 2024. Issue 2891. and their supporters protest in Rennes (Picture: @ConfPaysanne) Across France have risen up in some of the most coordinated and militant …

In the welfare state was used to help fight communism and bring up the standard of living for everyone. In America government intervention is seen as being intrinsically tied to communism and this demonised it. So much so that nowadays it is easy for politicians to shoot down without any backlash.

spread ahead of EU summit. [1/5]A banner reads “Macron answer us” as French block a highway with their tractors during a over price pressures, taxes and …

Belgium. Belgian blocked roads in and out of Brussels on 30 January, the Brussels Times reported, before the city was taken over by a wider on 1 February. . Hundreds of “angry ” gathered outside the parliament building, starting fires and throwing eggs in against “taxes, rising costs and cheap imports”, Sky News

Jos BIJMAN. Wageningen University, The Netherlands. The articles in this special issue of APCE are based on results from the project ‘Support for ’ Cooperatives (SFC)’ which was financed by the European Parliament and managed by the European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (Contract Number: 30-CE-0395921/00-42).

in the were angered by the removal of quotas on grain from Ukraine, meaning that the bloc was flooded with cheap produce. Photograph: Igor Tkachenko/Reuters. Polish began …

“The mass ’ protests that are taking place in many European countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece, prove that the policies followed by the and the anti-popular governments, such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the “green” transition, have caused acute problems of economic survival for and stockbreeders.

Socialists in the highly countries accused the agriculture sec-tor of being unfair and unproductive (equivalently, food was too expensive in terms of the labor required to produce it) because , who had been working on their land for generations, were too unsophisticated and because the market failed to achieve economies of scale.

The Party ( SP; Lithuanian: Socialistų partija) is a left-wing Marxist political association in Lithuania formed in October 21, 2018, from a split of the People’s Front. The party traces its origins to the Party of Lithuania (SPL), founded in 1994 by former members of the banned Communist Party of Lithuania (CPL).

is what they called price supports. is what they called bank deposit insurance. is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

September 9, 2016, 10:13 AM. Center-left parties are in trouble across , and the French Party is no exception. Although François Hollande is currently president, his …

Across are protesting skyrocketing costs, choking “climate change” rules, cuts in pay for their produce. Long lines of French driving their tractors blocked traffic around Paris and across France Jan. 29, demanding the government of President Emmanuel Macron officials put an end to policies that …

10 of 16 | . A farmer walks past tractors on a blocked highway, Thursday, Feb.1, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Protests have been held across the for most of the week and hundreds of angry driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by leaders at a …

across have taken to the streets in against the EU Green Deal, competition from imports and cuts to tax breaks. Agriculture is spreadi…

In July, about 39 percent of Dutch people said they supported the ’ , down from 45 percent the month before, according to a survey by a Dutch research firm.

Abstract. The transition in Eastern from command-driven to market-oriented economies brought about a sudden decline in agricultural production, which led to widespread farmland abandonment and subsequent reforestation across much of the region. We provide an overview of reforestation trends in post- Eastern .