Word: landlessness
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...Landless peasants and unemployed workers are clamoring for farms and jobs...
...Communists, while running behind the C.D.S., managed to increase their share of the vote modestly from 12.5% to 15%. They did so by holding on to their small but ardent constituency in the Lisbon industrial belt and among the landless peasants in the southern rural district of Alentejo, while picking up new strength as a result of a decision by a Communist splinter party to withdraw from the election...
...Salazarist regime, the right-wing Social Democratic Center Party (CDS) received about 16 per cent of the vote, while the more moderate rightist Popular Democrats garnered about 24 per cent. These parties stand, at best, for a freezing of revolution and opposition to the increased power of the landless peasants of the Allentejo and factory workers, and at worst a gradual return to the days of authoritarian rule by landlords and monopolists. But the center-right parties now have far better claims to lead the nation than they did a year ago, when elections to the constituent assembly gave them...
...Gandhi was in this bleak corner of impoverished Uttar Pradesh state for a padayatra, the journey on foot made famous 25 years ago by Vinobha Bhave, who for years walked the length and breadth of India asking people to give up one-tenth of their land to the landless. A padayatra has become the customary way for leaders to make contact with their people. In 1959 Mrs. Gandhi walked for four days through her father Jawaharlal Nehru's Allahabad constituency. This year Indira, 58, reduced her padayatra to a mile-long, 50-min. walk through the single village...
Most of the requests addressed to the Prime Minister concerned land. Surplus land in Hillaur was recently redistributed among the landless, with 77 families each getting about one-third of an acre. But one family, consisting of an old man, four women and three or four children, told her: "Most of our land has been taken away from us." How? "It was auctioned by the government, after getting a court order, ten days ago." The Prime Minister immediately ordered that the case be investigated...