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“Let them eat cake”: hunger and class struggle

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

Hunger is once again stalking the planet.1 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s World Food Price Index hit a record high of 159.3 points in March this year, up 12.6 percent from February as fertiliser prices soared and the… Continue Reading →

Article famine, Food, hunger, Revolution

Hungry for justice

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

Elaine Graham-Leigh, A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change (Zero Books, 2015), £12.99   In December last year the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in the UK, “Feeding Britain” (funded from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Charitable Trust), reported… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change, Food

Behind the world food crisis

Posted on 24th June 2008 by ISJ

The ancestor of modern cheap food policies, the repeal of the Corn Laws in Britain in 1846, was spurred by growing unrest within the swelling cities of an industrialising economy. In 1848 that unrest burst out into a series of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Food
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