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Feature Page

farmers' movement

Socialist Action and YSA are supporters of working farmers in their struggle for stay on the land and be paid decent prices for their produce. Along with workers, farmers are the other major class of producers in this country off whose labor the capitalist class has grown so wealthy. As commodity producers who own, or who aspire to own, the land they work, most farmers are not part of the working class (they don't have to sell their labor power). But like wage workers, farmers are exploited by the capitalists; workers as wage slaves, farmers as debt slaves.

Over the past few decades, this exploitation of farmers has been intensified by the banks and by the seed, fertilizer, food processing, farm implement and energy monopolies. This tightening squeeze comes on top of the inflation, tax burden, war danger and other social problems facing working people.

SA and YSA advocates solidarity between workers and farmers, and seeks to direct their struggles against their common oppressor, the capitalists.

We’ve set up this page to report on developments in the farmers' movement, post articles on the lessons of past farmer struggles, and explain the role that Marxists believe farmers can and will play. We welcome your feedback.

Downloadlable Fliers & Bulletins
National Farm Crisis -bulletin
The Movement for Sustainability -flier

The Plight of Working Farmers
The Ongoing National Farm Crisis
Minnesota Farmers Are Facing Disaster
State of Agriculture in Wisconsin

Rural Activism
Rural Midwesterners Stand Up to Electric Power Monopoly
History of the American Agriculture Movement

Gas, Crop & Livestock Prices
$7 a Gallon?

International
World Food Day 2004: The political Economy of Hunger

UFW/Farm Workers
UFW Reverses Itself on "Guest Workers"
Bush’s new ‘bracero’ program: Temporary work, starvation wages

farmer links & resources:
Family Farm Defenders
American Agriculture Movement
Friends of Agriculture
National Farmers Organization
National Family Farm Coalition
National Farmers Union

We also invite you to subscribe to our weekly Resistance! ezine - which features an activist calendar, a compilation of current events as well as statements and analysis of national and international events from a Marxist perspective.

Youth 4 Socialist Action: P.O. Box 16853, Duluth MN 55816 (715) 394-6660 -- mnsocialist@yahoo.com