I have blogged, about a consultation on Scotland's community rights to buy. #landreform
https://basedrones.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/community-right-to-buy-review-consultation-on-this-aspect-of-scottish-land-reform/

I have blogged, about a consultation on Scotland's community rights to buy. #landreform
https://basedrones.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/community-right-to-buy-review-consultation-on-this-aspect-of-scottish-land-reform/
Today in Labor History July 4, 1840: The anti-rent association of Berne in the Hudson Valley issued its Declaration of Independence, starting the Anti-Rent War, which lasted until August 1845. Also known as the Helderberg War, the anti-rent war was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York against the patroons, who acted as feudal lords with the right to make laws. The first meeting of the Anti-Rent tenant farmers was held in Berne, New York on July 4, 1839. Leaders of the revolt were tried for riot, conspiracy and robbery in 1845. The first trial resulted in no convictions. A re-trial in September 1845 saw a fist-fight between the attorneys who were sentenced to solitary confinement for 24 hours. One defendant, Smith A. Boughton, was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was pardoned by the pro-Anti-Renter John Young.
The SNP are using Conservative votes to keep significant changes out of the Land Reform Bill, MSPs have said.
While the story is a wee bit more involved than this article would have us believe, the SNP are not covering themselves in glory here pandering to large, rich estates, frequently foreign owned. Grow some balls Swinney.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25256169.snp-working-tories-weaken-land-reform-bill-msps-say/
Land reform in Scotland, too slow and being impeded (as is their right at present) by large landowners
There is, of course, a very easy way for Scotland to tax the very wealthiest here without the threat of them leaving.
Tax something they can't take with them.
Tax land - https://www.commonweal.scot/policies/taxing-land-in-scotland/
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #SouthAfrica #LandReform
The question of land reform in So. Africa is complicated. While land needs to be redistributed (leading some Afrikaners to tell Trump they are being persecuted ), the government and poor people don't always align on what the best solutions should be. Hammer & Hope talks to some working class Black So. Africans for their views on the new law. https://hammerandhope.org/article/musk-south-africa-land-reform
Also read Issue 6 which just posted last week.
Ed: Spelling
Trump & Musk call South Africa's equity laws "racist"—but global orgs like the UN, IMF, & World Bank back them as essential to undo apartheid’s legacy.
It's not racism to fix systemic injustice.
It’s called justice.
So WHO's racist?
#SouthAfrica #LandReform #BEE #GlobalSupport
Africa: Mask Off - Recapping the 2025 World Bank Land Conference: [IPS] Oakland, California, Usa -- Last week, at its annual Land Conference in Washington D.C., (May 5-8), the World Bank showed allegiance to the new US administration by dropping the pretense of promoting land reform for climate action and confirming that its land agenda is about boosting corporate profits. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKmxJq #Africa #WorldBank #LandReform #ClimateAction #CorporateProfits
Tens of thousands of white South Africans seek U.S. asylum amid land reform fears http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKVLJ0 #SouthAfrica #AsylumSeekers #LandReform #Emigration #Afrikaners
Land reform is an essential part of Scottish Independence
An opinion piece.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/
http://archive.today/2025.04.25-101323/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25114298.ariane-burgess-land-reform-bring-power-back-people/?
(archive of article)
"There is perhaps no organization with a better reputation among leftists around the world than the MST. Its admirers will tell you that the group has managed accomplishments that elude progressive movements elsewhere: It maintains a radical approach, pushing for revolution in the long term while providing homes and incomes for working-class Brazilians in the short; it has adapted to shifting conditions without suffering major rifts; and it fought to get Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s once and current president, out of prison in 2019 and back into power, all while keeping its independence from the ruling Workers’ Party. “We have been very inspired by the MST as a political and social movement,” Enzo Camacho, from the ALPAS Pilipinas, a group that works to organize the Filipino diaspora in Berlin, told me. Belén Díaz, a sociologist and a member of the left-feminist Bloque Latinoamericano collective, put it more bluntly: “The Landless Workers’ Movement is the most respected social movement in the world.”
In October 2022, the Workers’ Party won back the keys to the presidential palace and, despite a January 6–like coup attempt by Bolsonaro and his supporters, Lula took up residence the following year. With democracy secured and the reactionaries out of the executive branch, the MST shifted into a more offensive posture: It began to seize more unused land and to occupy illegal farms once again. The movement’s return to its pre-Bolsonaro form seemed to surprise Lula’s administration, and it generated some mainstream attention
(...)
Though Bolsonaro was defeated in 2022, his Partido Liberal won the largest bloc of seats in Congress. Lula must work with the right-wing forces funded by rich landowners and rapacious agribusinesses, lest his administration risk impeachment or abuses of the legal system"
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/brazil-mst-landless-workers-movement/
"[ @greenpeace ] gave birth to the non-Indigenous part of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s and captured the imagination of the world by engaging in spectacular and creative actions to save whales in the north Pacific and to stop nuclear testing. Greenpeace needs to be protected in this critical moment"
#ClimateEmergency
#Ecocide
#LandReform
#FreeSpeach
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota
This is (part of) why I am, and intend to continue to be, a financial supporter of @greenpeace . I'm not claiming the organisation is perfect – none is – but we need groups with the courage, resources and skills to stand up to the onrushing #Corporate #Fascist wave.
#ClimateEmergency
#Ecocide
#LandReform
#FreeSpeach
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota
It is good for people to have security of tenure of their homes; it is good for land to have consistent management over long periods of time. But heritable property is the principle driver of social inequity, and we should not tolerate it.
[My opinions, not those of the people writing the survey!]
#LandReform
#ScotPol
#2/2
The default state of land in Scotland is currently that it is privately owned, and fungible -- it may be traded for money. The default state of land should be that it is common, that is to say inalienable (non fungible) communal property of the local community, and that individuals should have non-heritable life-rent of holdings.
#LandReform
#ScotPol
#1/2
This is an outstanding opportunity for #CommunityLandTrusts and cooperative housing if we had anyone near power who understood their potential.
Auctioning this off to developers and it'll provide temporary relief only.
Ramaphosa responds to U.S. funding freeze, rejects "bullying" http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THr66n #Ramaphosa #FundingFreeze #USHIVSupport #LandReform #Misinformation
Ramaphosa speaks with Musk after Trump criticizes land reform http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THmzkQ #Ramaphosa #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #LandReform #SouthAfrica
Africa: Expropriation Bill - Decades in the Making, What Lies Ahead for South Africa?: [Daily Maverick] The announcement on Thursday, 24 January 2025 that President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill into law has drawn expressions of concern and legal threats. But what does it actually mean? http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THcDNn #SouthAfrica #ExpropriationBill #CyrilRamaphosa #LandReform #AfricanPolitics
"While recommending a high-tech form of land enclosures via '#AI Growth Zones' (AIGZs), which are about handing data centre developers "access to land and power", it gestures towards the idea that these could drive local innovation in post-industrial towns"
This is certainly absolutely delusional. The whole point of the Internet is that there is NO geographical linkage between the location of the servers and the high value jobs.
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right