Rudy joins Paris Yeros, the co-editor of Reclaiming the Nation: The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America and Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America, for a discussion on the agrarian and national questions in the 21st century, with a focus on the Zimbabwe land occupations of the 2000s. We discuss the semi-proletarization and land hunger in the Global South, the relevance of the peasantry as a social class, national sovereignty and South-South cooperation before moving on to discuss the land occupations and land redistribution process in Zimbabwe that started in 2000 and how they centered the race and national questions. We also discuss the challenges Zimbabwe has faced since then, and compare the militancy of the Zimbabwe occupations to other movements today such as La Via Campesina and Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil.
References:
Paris Yeros – A New Bandung in the Current Crisis
Sam Moyo – The Land Occupation Movement and Democratisation in Zimbabwe: Contradictions of Neoliberalism
Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros (2007), The Radicalised state: Zimbabwe’s interrupted revolution, Review of African Political Economy, 34(111), 103–121.
Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros (2013), ‘The Zimbabwe model: Radicalisation, reform and resistance’, in S. Moyo & W. Chambati (eds), Land and agrarian reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond white-settler capitalism (pp. 331–358). Dakar: CODESRIA.
