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Wat Tyler led the Peasants Revolt some 150 years later to get a better deal for farm laborers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Peasants burned châteaux and records of the dues they owed local nobles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Among his hundreds of publications are the monographs “Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French” and “Vietnamese Women in Society and Revolution: The French Colonial Period.”

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022

Shin Ji Youn, an official at the Korean Women Peasants Association, said the farmers’ groups asked Hongseong to respond to their requests by Aug. 10.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Peasants who have lived in the countryside since before the revolution are rewarded by being allowed to stay in their villages.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung