Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 151)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 151)

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1924-7, as well as being levied by force. (70) The only change of note
involved the form of the tax. The "Rural Property Tax" was introduced
as a more efficient mechanism for coping with the increasingly
capitalistic nature of the Palestinian economy.
Large-scale expropriation accompanied with excessive taxation
carried out particularly in the 1920s had severe social and economic
consequences on the Palestinian direct producers. Between 1929 and
1931 several official commissions of enquiry concluded, unanimously,
that the Palestinian peasants (fallaheen) were heavily indebted and
impoverished. Of particular significance was the finding which
confirmed that landlessness among the peasants was a direct
consequence of Jewish settlement. Before examining some of the data
of these enquiries, it is important to look at the circumstances
which prompted the government to conduct massive research in this
period.
In 1929 a general peasant uprising took place. In this uprising the
peasants demanded that the government put an end to Jewish
immigration, stop land transfer, and change its taxation policy. The
"violent disturbances" as one official report referred to the
uprising, forced the government to look into the demands of the
indigenous population. (71)
In an attempt to review its taxation policies, the government
appointed a committee of enquiry to examine the "economic conditions
of the agriculturists and fiscal measures of government in relation
thereto". The report of this committee, known as the Johnson-Crosbie
report, suggested that the "agriculturists" were heavily indebted and
poor, ana that many of them had even lost their land. The report
| recommended that the government change its 1920 "Land Transfer
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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation

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Nahla Abdo-Zubi

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