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What many of the farmers really seem to want is simply a greater measure of respect. "When a peasant goes to the local authorities, he is treated like a piece of nothing-like he is less than a human being," said one ruddy-faced protester. Then he added: "Poland is like a family. The government is the father and the peasants and workers are the children. If the father is a drunkard and is not good to his children, they will pay him back in kind. But if he is good to his children, they will pay him the respect...
...land redistribution effort has failed to neutralize the peasant population and has not succeeded in isolating the guerrilla forces...
...other wildcat labor disputes, workers from 17 factories in and around Ustrzyki Dolne in southeast Poland staged a one-hour warning strike. The walkouts were in support of a sit-in at local government offices to protest police harassment of organizers for Solidarity and its peasant counterpart, Rural Solidarity. Meanwhile, in Jelenia Gora, in the southwest, workers announced a "strike alert" for next week unless a government team was dispatched to discuss their grievances, including a demand for the dismissal of a minister in charge of relations with the unions...
Most agricultural experts agree with her. The embargo declared by President Carter on Jan. 4, 1980, in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan has yet to cost the Soviet peasant his beloved loaf of black bread or cause serious disruptions in the Soviet economy. Yet the experts add that the limit on farm sales to Moscow may still have a long-term impact on the development of Soviet agriculture, especially on meat production...
...majority opinion is heavily rooted in the false mythology of the "Peasant Revolutions." While many governments throughout Latin America have, at the least, allowed repressive political and economic structures to exploit the farmers and workers of these countries, to suggest that most of the revolutionaries are indeed peasants is to mock the history of such revolutions, and to further suggest that any movement heavily supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union will improve the life of the peasants--one would merely have to ask the proletariat in, say, Afghanistan and Ethiopia if their conditions have improved since their Cuban...