Descripción
Far from the cities and so far from the corporate media, peasants across the planet have been involved in a serious battle for survival. Enormous land grabs by large corporations and the attack on the livelihood of small farmers by industrial farming and by the withdrawal of any pro-peasant state policy has made 90% of the world’s farmers vulnerable to annihilation. Farmers’ suicides in India are the dead canary in the coal mine – the noxious gases of capitalism snuffed them out. To take one’s life is a tragic, but there is a social meaning here: it is a cry from the darkness against a brutal world.