New Future

Encouraged by the enthusiastic response from the people of Bengaluru to its initiative of enabling farmers to sell directly to consumers, the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha has decided to organize such markets every fortnight.

KPL News also highlights the timing of the RDA’s decision: it came just five days before South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy visited the U. S. (March 26–28) to meet with the U. S. Secretary of Commerce. This has fueled speculation that the government is preemptively dismantling non-tariff barriers under U. S. pressure.

In March, La Via Campesina called on social movements and civil society organizations everywhere to hit the streets and push back against this violent, extractivist system that is fueling hunger, poverty, forced migration, wars, and ecological collapse. The response has been resounding.

We call upon organizations, networks, collectives, and social movements from various sectors to build the People’s Summit towards COP 30.

Sign the petition and demand an immediate end to the destruction of agricultural and food infrastructure in Gaza, and ensure urgent reconstruction in consultation with Palestinian farmers and peasant unions.

Food Sovereignty All over the world, financial institutions and creditor countries are attacking people’s food sovereignty. They are imposing structural adjustment policies and pushing governments to give the priority to export-oriented productions, while importing the food that their population need. Funding should be directed towards public policies that protect and strengthen local food production, based on numerous small-scale food producers.

Even 29 years after this sad episode in Brazilian history, impunity still reveals how justice protects the powerful and criminalizes the poor. The crime moved the world and transformed April 17 into the International Day of Fight for the Territories and the National Day of Fight for Agrarian Reform.

Now faced with the genocide in Gaza, the activists have started to focus on violence committed against Palestinian women in the context of the war and the occupation.

In late 2024, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cut subsidies, the Government of Pakistan began dismantling the Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism for wheat—a longstanding policy that had provided a critical financial safety net for millions of farmers.

The CNA also warns that the immediate temptation to point to the proliferation of free trade agreements as a solution is merely repeating the same mistake that led us to the current situation.

Palestine Solidarity Since 1997, Hebron has been separated into two zones, H1 and H2 under Palestinian and Israeli administration respectively. About 1,000 settlers live in the heart of the city of 225,000 inhabitants. The Palestinians are subjected to daily harassment by the Israeli soldiers and settlers.

States have a binding legal obligation to intervene when humanitarian aid is obstructed in a manner that contributes to genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity- pursuant to the 1948 Genocide Convention

The recent unanimous decision by South Korea's Constitutional Court to remove Yoon Seok-yul from office has renewed faith in democratic processes and highlighted the power of social movements to protect people's rights. Here's a statement from the KPL and KWPA reacting to the president's removal.

This year, the Landless Workers aim to use the National Day of Struggle in Defense of Agrarian Reform to send a clear message to the Lula government: urgent and more decisive actions are needed to address the land agenda.