WORLD WORLDWIDE COLOMBIA News Journal Update - (en) Colombia, ViaLibre: 52 years of February 21, 1971. National Day of the Peasant Struggle (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On February 21 we celebrate and commemorate the national day of peasant struggle.

On this date 52 years ago, there was a huge peasant and indigenous mobilization,
which led to the occupation of more than 500 farms nationwide, demanding
comprehensive agrarian reform. The day of struggle and planting was promoted by
the National Association of Peasant Users (Anuc), increasingly autonomous from
governments and strengthened by its peasant mandate in which it established land
without bosses and the promotion of collective land production. ---- February 21,
which the peasant organizations themselves defined as a day to symbolize their
history of struggle, reflects the long and rich experience of the Agrarian
Presidia of the 1920s, of the Agricultural Societies and Peasant Leagues of the
1930s, of the national agrarian unions of the 1960s, of the Anuc in its diversity
in 1970, of the unity and defense of life projects of the 1980s, of the coffee
and coca-growing marches of 1990, of the minga and the fight for rights human
rights of 2000, of the national agrarian strikes and the liberation of Mother
Earth of 2010.

If February 21, 1971 marked for the State the abandonment of the path of a timid
and failed agrarian reform from above, for those below it meant the deepening of
an agrarian reform from below, the only one that in various regions managed to
break the dominance landowner. The defense of the order of landowners and
agrarian bourgeoisie, and the clash with the more autonomous peasant areas,
partly justified the paramilitary project that since 1980 and especially between
1995 and 2005, imposed by blood and fire a massive campaign of dispossession of
land and resources and a violent counter-agrarian reform, endorsed by different
state institutions.

Today the fight of February 21, for land, life and freedom continues in force.
The Petro government wants to face a minimal agrarian reform, through a slow and
generous purchase of land dispossessed by employer unions with a long criminal
record, such as Fedegan, which for the moment is close to 9% of the land in the
hands of large cattle ranches. It is essential to guarantee that this lukewarm
project is carried out and to deepen its course so that it is really up to the
peasant needs, while strengthening the peasant organization, its autonomy and
forms of common work.

Today as yesterday, the agrarian reform is from below

https://grupovialibre.org/2023/02/22/52-anos-del-21-de-febrero-de-1971-dia-nacional-de-la-lucha-campesina/
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