The recent events in Rondonia, an illegal military siege and preparation for a new poor peasants’ massacre in the lands where 25 years ago the Heroic Peasant Armed Resistance of Santa Elina ( nowadays, Manoel Ribeiro Camp), in Chupinguaia, south of the state) happened, have brought up an urgent debate: the Agrarian Revolution.
The agrarian-peasant question
Buried by the opportunist electoral left-wing and the supporters of the “agricultura capitalism ( agribusiness, productive landownership of monocultures for exporting and breeder of semi-feudality), the peasnt agrarian issue is central for the transformation of our society and liberation of the motherland.
The great concentration of lands ( 1% of the owners possesses nearly half of the agricultural lands) is the first factor, added to the domination of the whole economy by monopoly fused groups with the imperialist domination that generates all disgraces for the peasantry. A concentration that only increases, through the expelling of the peasants by the environmental and agrarian laws, misery, action of flocks of gunmen and the repressive old State forces that act directly linked to the landownership in the “conflict agrarian areas”, and vacant lands where there are large masses of squatters.
Besides incorporating those peasants in more advanced work-relations (capitalists), the landlords use the calamitous situation of the peasants to establish the most brutal work-relations in the countryside as it has been registered in the so-called “slavery-like jobs”, semi-slavery and semifeudal forms. Even the “agribusiness”, with the exception of the fridges and in the manual cane planting and cutting that employ the extensive working-labour, do not absorb such a peasant mass but complementary activities to the production as, for instance, the aftermath after the harvest in the cultivation done by the machinery in different forms of slavery.
Launched to the cities, the peasant masses do not have jobs there at all. As much in the villages and towns and those surrounded by the countryside as in the metropolis. They are part of the cronic lines of those unemployed persons creating a huge reserve army, urged by the large offer so that the salary becomes lower and, before the ceaseless search for employmente, they end up accepting any offer, many times under pre-capitalist relations. To worsen it they often become victms of the recruiting of their children to the delinquency nets and urban prostitution.
The landless peasants, at most, can have, through state financing, a piece of land to produce, adding up to the masses of million of families that compose the peasant economy permanently ruined. With no capital, and with the credit extremely concentrated for the landlords, without technical aid, without inputs (sold at monopoly prices), and without logistic conditions to sell the produce – because of the grade of misery of the peasant economy – they become an easy prey of the landownership nets and the bureaucratic capital that exploit at most the produce. They are obliged to sell what they produce at price stipulated by the middlemen, the only way to access the market in a more permanent manner. They get into debt and with little land and low productivity, they lose everything. But not before producing for a period of time, using the whole family and acquaintances without payment ( at most giving away a piece of land for the ‘partner’), the consumer goods from the basic food basket at an extremely low price imposed by the middlemen bureaucratic-latifundium monopoly that are in the countryside. In their place, in any pice of land, another peasant family will be allocated, ruinned as well, for continuing producing under these conditions, in benefit of the big capitalists and landlords, maintainning in the cities the necessary salary as low as possible.
Thrown from the countryside to the cities, under the bureaucratic capitalist regime, semicolonial and semifeudal, the peasants, in large quantities, are wanderers.
The Agrarian Revolution programme
Before that, the peasant masses are launched to the struggle for the land. Despite the whole seduction of the electoral ‘left-wing, centre and righ-wing’ opportunism, sorting out a thousand difficulties, they find in the Agrarian Revolution the only road through which they can reach dignified life conditions and awaken their political consciousness that the disgrace that makes they suffer is not fruit of fate but a perfectly executed project by the old reactionary State of the big bourgeois and landlords, at the service of imperialism, mainly Yankee.
The Agrarian Revolution consists of :
- Extinction of the landownership in the development areas and consolidation of the peasant movement with an immediate change of the character of the land property and other means of production. It is understood that the extinction of landownership, as an institution and social class, leads to the extinction of the semifeudal relations in the countryside, at least in the areas ocuppied by the peasant movement.
- Liberation and development of the productive forces in the countryside ( man’s, technique, instruments of production, habits of work and craft traditions) through the implement of the individual properties of collective structures that hold small plots of land, with the consequent increase of productivity and agricultural production, establishing new relations of production, seated on a growing cooperation that develops from the inferior to superior level.
- Establishment of the political power of the working masses in the areas where the liberation of the productive forces is processed, incorporating the poor peasants, agricultural wage earners and farmers contrary to the bureaucratic imperialist landownership policy in the country.
- The nationalization, in the hands of the political power of the New Revolutionary State, of the big capitalist enterprises in the countryside.
It is clear that a deeply revolutionary programme that will raise the Nation and will remove from it centuries of foreign oppression and exploitation and the big bourgeois and lackey landlords will inevitably shock with recalcitrant reactionary and genocidal forces. Forces that have already done the dress rehearsal having the service of intelligence of the genocidal Armed Forces behind it carrying out mappings, spreading its network of secret agents, giving logistic and military support to the local auxiliary forces and indirectly to the bands of gunmen of the landownership. A sinister war, till now not declared, kept under the hood, against the peasants who mobilize themselves for a piece of land and do not accept to live under the rotten bureaucratic semifeudal landownership.
It does not matter what these gentlemen want. The peasant masses have already found the way to conquer their immediate interests and are awakening for the great truth of our time: there is no way for the landownership and imperialism to get along with the people’s masses of the whole country without the former enslaving the latter. The Agrarian Revolution will end of such a situation.
