Colonial Legacies of Agrarian Violence and Persistent Struggles to End It
Publisher: Transnational Institute
Author(s): Jun Borras and Maria Malaya de la Tierra
Date: 2026
Topics: Conflict Causes, Governance, Land, Livelihoods
Assassinations, massacres, genocides and other forms of brutal violence against people and nature are deployed to suppress dissent and silence critical voices. Violence is inherent in global capitalism, a system of endless profit-making by exploitation, oppression and ecological plunder on the basis of the intersection of class and interlocking axis of social differences: race, ethnicity, caste, genders, generation, nationality and religion. Violence meant to instill terror in order for people to accept and forget. This normalizes, naturalizes and reproduces the violent system.