Category: Palestine

INTENSIFY PEASANT STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALIST PLUNDER, WAR, AND MILITARISM!

STATEMENT FOR THE 2025 DAY OF THE LANDLESS – 29 March 2025 We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society organizations, reaffirm the anti-imperialist position and the centrality of the peasant struggle for land, food, and justice in achieving sustainable agriculture and …

Point to Ponder March 2024

Women’s Rights or Corporate rights? In the recent months the focus on women farmers remains a stream. A class analysis of rural women has put them in three categories: land owners, workers on family farms, and landless labor. The first category is no doubt the smallest category, but is representative of the powerful feudal base of the country, enjoying fruits …

Points to Ponder January 2024

Unabating Debt With the start of a new year, the situation in the country sees no real change in terms of economic stability. It is unfortunate that in 75 years, it has gone to the IMF 23 times for financial bailout programs. The State Bank of Pakistan has received the second tranche of $700 million, which is approximately equivalent to …

Point to Ponder December 2023

Corporate Agriculture – the Crux of the matter With the formation of Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), there has been heavy emphasis on promoting agro-chemical agriculture, with Green Revolution technologies considered markers for progress. The role of the Pakistan Army in SIFC remains dominant. In context to the project ‘Green Initiatives,’ the Pakistan Army Chief of Staff (COAS) has identified plans …

An Appeal from Brazilian Women on a Peace Mission in the Middle East

In memory of Mayada Abassi, Former Ambassador of Palestine to Brazil and Secretary of International Relations of the General Union of Palestinian Women – UGMP. Letter to the Brazilian Government, entities and leaders of communities in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) The Brazilian Union of Women – UBM, the Brazilian …

Points to Ponder November 2023!

Agriculture production is the center of Pakistan’s economy is a fact and needs no reiteration. However, the sector is besieged by many ills of which the main is the consistent dependency on resources external to the country. There are many examples of such tendencies. According to the Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Dr Kauser Malik, Sino-Pak agricultural …

DEFEND OUR LAND, DEFEND OUR FUTURE, DEFEAT IMPERIALISM!

Asian Peasant Coalition’s Statement on the Day of the Landless 2024 2024 marks the 9th year since the Asian Peasant Coalition determined the 29th of March as global “Day of the Landless” to be annually commemorated in 2015. And despite the promise of improvement and development from the global north, the condition of landlessness persists and negligible changes have transpired …