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Instead of more Madonnas, who in the glare of global publicity saves a lone child’s life, Africa needs more Nkhomas: passionate cheerleaders with deep local knowledge and a willingness to stand alongside peasants in the fields in order to grow food for all the other children.
Few outside of the lumpen classes of unemployed workers and dispossessed peasants seem to have any gusto for political protest.
Because peasants had lost the right to farm their own land, agricultural output was extremely low.
The movement united ten million people: workers and professors, peasants and students, priests and freethinkers among them – all of civil society.
The US adventure in Iraq has squandered $150 billion over two years, while Bolivia received $10 million--that's right, $10 million--in "emergency" help, a fifteenth or less of what was realistically needed to ease the intense economic crisis and help displaced peasants.
Whereas China’s growth is fueled by low-cost labor as millions of peasants enter the industrial economy, this is not the South Korean recipe for success, which has been driven by private entrepreneurship, innovation, and quality products: Samsung and Hyundai, not cheap wages, are South Korea’s growth engines.
One indirect, yet tragic, result has been Bolivian, Peruvian, and Colombian peasants’ continuing cultivation of coca leaves as a means of economic survival.
Rural peasants and Indians still support him, as do senior military officials.
By the end of the century, peasants were citing it in a struggle against injustice.
It would also provide Afghan peasants, who have been growing poppy despite forced eradication of the plant and incentives to change crops, with an option that is regulated by law and that, in time, could have an impact on the heroin trade.
For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.
Despite their vaunted credo of “scientific development,” the Hu-Wen leadership has failed to do much to help peasants and migrant workers, who have been hit hard by staggeringly high property prices, unaffordable health care, and rising education costs.
While serving as governor and party boss of Henan Province in the 1990’s, Li Keqiang failed to do much for the estimated one million peasants who contracted AIDS by selling blood to supplement their meager earnings.
In 2000, he abandoned his studies at Beijing University when he learned that thousands of Henan peasants were dying from AIDS after having sold their blood to local traffickers.
Hu and Wen have cancelled national agricultural taxes, made rural schooling free, launched a new rural medical insurance plan, and guaranteed that, since there is still no title for holding private agricultural land, peasants are entitled to renew their long-term leases.
As Mircea Geoana, Romania's bright young Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently put it: "If the EU waits another seven or ten years before it opens up, the workers it will receive from my country will be the least qualified, peasants and individuals with low human capital: by then, the doctors, the architects and the engineers will all have migrated to the United States."
According to this view, there was no conspiracy, but a great social revolution that, by virtue of a powerful internal logic, brought to power workers, peasants, and the Bolshevik party, which represented their will.
Both the Bolsheviks and their opponents were involved in these falsifications, concealing, distorting, and concocting facts and circumstances, whether they referred to the real role of Stalin or Trotsky in the revolution or to the behavior of peasants and Cossacks.
The constitution says that power belongs to the people, but in reality the rights of the people belong to the Communist Party and its leaders, from whom workers and peasants receive scant attention.
They will not get to discuss the protection of citizen's rights, relaxation of harsh media controls, the rights of peasants to migrate or take up jobs in the cities, or whether to tolerate workers who organize independent unions.
He not only ratified a free-trade agreement with the United States and addressed previous governments’ human-rights violations; he also stuck to his guns on important reforms, despite large-scale protests by students, teachers, peasants, and business owners last year.
The peasants, who made up nine-tenths of the population, consisted overwhelmingly of serfs of the Crown or the gentry and as such enjoyed no legal rights whatsoever.
In Poland, for example, peasants not only want to shout news of their affairs to the world, but they want to shape Poland in their own image.
Everywhere you look peasants have almost disappeared.
Today, this reserve army of peasants is creating the most serious political conflicts seen in Poland since communism's fall as the country seeks membership in the European Union.
People recognize this, but still find the gradual disappearance of peasants troubling.
Poland's peasants, who gained a glimpse of the wider world since 1989, see what is going on and fear it.
Like everyone else, our peasants vote their fears and choose as their representatives the peasant parties who think that political stalemate is the only way to preserve Poland's rural way of life.
In reality, the peasants were not much help in the Solidarity era and they now constitute the main obstacle to modernization.
The sad thing about the power that Poland's peasants now exert is that theirs is a wholly negative one.
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