Food, agriculture and rural

BURSTON: Communists campaign in support of Countryside Charter

Communists will be out in strength at this years festival to celebrate the Burston school strike, in Diss, Norfolk. Stalls for the CP, the rural campaigning newspaper Country Standard and the Morning Star are booked and members will be distributing copies of the Standard for free, sponsored by public service union Unison and Unite rural and food worker's union group.
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CHRIS KAUFMAN AT TOLPUDDLE: Holding the Country Standard aloft

This weekend thousands will gather to enjoy the Tolpuddle festival and to pay respect to the martyrs who, so to speak, started the ball rolling. The festival is also the occassion for a launch of the 2012 Country Standard, a 20 page colour tabloid campainging for socialism in the countryside, produced by an editorial collective and supported by the Communist Party. Leader writer Chris Kaufman explains the thinking behind this special campaign edition.

The Coalition of Millionaires has voted by a majority of 77 to scrap the Agricultural Wages Board which covers 150,000 agricultural workers and acts as a bench mark for thousands of other rural jobs write Unite and Mike Walker for the Country Standard.
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CAP REFORM: Country Standard slams lack of rural investment

The EU Common Agricultural Policy was negotiated by conservatives to feathernest their landowning supporters at the expense of rural communities and small farmers. Reform of the CAP this week, did little to change all that, writes Michael Walker co editor of the Country Standard. Go to the CS blogspot to find comment and analysis of the CAP.

MODE 4: EU Pushes bonded labour

A meeting convened by RMT at Tolpuddle, included speakers from the London School of Economics and the Teachers' Federation in Australia, who analysed the threat of EU-sponsored movement of labour directed at conditions, wages and union organisation in Britain. Here, Brian Denny of No2EU-Yes to Democracy campaign analyses 'Mode 4'.
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