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"Peasant Movements in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

According to the author, a new peasant movement is rising in India that is mounting a challenge to the Indian state. This movement claims to represent the united interest of all categories of peasants. The primary effect of the green revolution - the changing relationship of the peasantry to the state and capital. It is pointed out that the growth of agricultural capitalism leads to the growing exploitation of the peasant as a peasant producer rather than to an increasing differentiation of the agrarian sector into a few exploiting kulaks and a growing majority of landless or land-poor agricultural labourers. (DÜI-Sen)

The relationship between peasant and Jew in Poland has presented a complex picture of mutual dependency and ambivalent feeling for centuries. Each needed the other for economic survival, yet simultaneously they often regarded each other with suspicion, mistrust, and, occasionally, loathing and fear. Nonetheless, until the emergence of a formally organized peasant movement in the late nineteenth century, it was extremely difficult to measure the actual perceptions and attitudes the peasantry held regarding the Jews. This essays traces the evolution of the stance toward the Polish Jews adopted by the peasant movement in the independent Polish Republic between the two world wars. It notes the passage of this stance from varieties of political indifference and economic concern through a phase of overt anti-Semitism, to the final stage of de-emphasizing the "Jewish Question" as a major factor in the political program and strategy of the movement.