farmers

Today in history: John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” is published

April 14, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Millions who have never read the book have seen the film version starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford.

American Grace

November 26, 2014 By Rick Nagin

"Remember those who grew this food, who picked and packed, who shipped and sold..."

Co-op banks to invest in worker-owned U.S. businesses

September 17, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The world's largest industrial, worker-owned and run cooperative, Spanish-based Mondragon and its bank, Laboral Kutxa, agreed to partner with U.S. based National Cooperative Bank to invest in U.S. cooperative businesses.

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,

Today in labor history: Starving farmers demand food

January 3, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In the depths of the Great Depression, some 500 farmers marched into the town of England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families.