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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.

thenational.scot/news/25256169

archive.today/2025.06.22-06521 (archive)

The National · SNP 'working with Tories to weaken Land Reform Bill', MSPs sayBy Xander Elliards

Graeme Purves writing on Bella, anent the Land reform consultation.
"an attempt to shut down discourses on land and its use, which are uncongenial to powerful vested interests...Perhaps it is time to question whether the Land Commission can any longer be taken seriously as an agent of progressive change? "
#LandReform

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/

Bella Caledonia · Lowering the Expectations on Land ReformIn its 2021 manifesto, the SNP promised a new Land Reform Bill which would address issues of fairness, equality, and social justice in land ownership, use, and access.  The Bill would ensure that t…

#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. hammerandhope.org/article/musk
Also read Issue 6 which just posted last week.
Ed: Spelling

Hammer & HopeSouth Africa’s Black Working Class Opposes the Land Reform Law That Led Donald Trump to Give White People Refugee StatusGrassroots organizations condemn Black elites in the African National Congress for imposing the law on poor people while ignoring their calls for communal land ownership.

"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"

thenation.com/article/world/br

The Nation · The Power and Symbolism of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ MovementAfter mobilizing to defend democracy and meet people’s immediate needs, the radical Marxist organization emerged from the Bolsonaro regime stronger than ever.

"[ @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

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shockingBy Steven Donziger

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

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shockingBy Steven Donziger

Thursday 23 at 8 AM (Colombian time) this event aims at presenting recently published FAO’s technical briefing Understanding the Status of Land Rights for Sustainable Reconstruction of the Gaza and the West Bank. Further, much can be learned from the experiences of other crisis and post-crisis countries. Here is the agenda of the event. Registration link here: t.co/EItvVbwQEv #palestine #colombia #congo #syria #Landreform
#agriculture

"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.

#AIActionPlan
#LandReform

computerweekly.com/opinion/Lab

ComputerWeekly.comLabour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right | Computer WeeklyCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'.

@thecommongreen
For those who have an opinion about Scotland's land ownership, #Revive recently held a conference and has launched a consultation on #LandReform. It's astonishing to learn how much land in Scotland is owned by a relatively small number of wealthy people!

If a huge number of people living in Scotland respond to the consultation, it will be harder for #ScotGov to ignore the findings. Link to the 'Big Land Question' can be found in this article:

revive.scot/revives-big-land-q