Animal Farm

ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM

"All animals are equal.
But some animals are more equal than others."

ANIMAL FARM - published in 1945 when he was forty-two years old - is Orwell's eighth book. It was written during WWII after Orwell quit the BBC in 1943 and during the time his wife Eileen was working in the Ministry of Information (model for the Ministry of Truth). They worked on the book together and it was a tragedy that it wasn't printed until five months after her death. It was considered too "anti-Stalin" and "anti-Communist" to publish during the war when "Uncle Joe" Stalin was England's friend. When ANIMAL FARM was finally published after the war (when Stalin was the enemy again) it brought Orwell worldwide acclaim and fame (but it was banned in the Soviet Union).

All the best,
Jackie Jura, 2001

VISITING ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM

ORWELL-COLLEY-JURA & MR JONES (Gareth was Mr Jones in Animal Farm)

Angry Farmers Stirring Revolt (it's war between Greens & farmers), NewYorkTimes, March 2024
...There's no point talking about farm practices that help save the environment, if farmers cannot make a living. Ecology without an economy makes no sense... Farmers have blocked highways and descended on the streets of European capitals in a disruptive outburst against "existential challenges"... Europe's decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry added to competitive problems... The E.U. has reduced subsidies to farmers if they do not shift to more environmentally friendly methods. Farmers have attacked Green party events... they spread a manure slick on a highway... Spanish farmers have destroyed Moroccan produce grown with cheaper labor. Polish farmers are enraged by what they see as unfair competition from Ukraine.... The cost for electrified irrigation more than doubled in 2023, and fertilizer costs tripled as the war in Ukraine increased energy prices... It's Russia's war in Ukraine that's destroying us... The Bugey nuclear plant could be seen belching steam into the blue sky. Urban development and industrial zones encroach on highly mechanized farms abutting deserted villages where small stores have been crushed by hypermarkets that offer cheaper imported meat and produce. "The graduates of elite schools that run this country have no idea about farm life, or even what a day's labor feels like. They're perched up there, the successors to our royal family, Macron chief among them... The countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that defies common sense.... "True exile is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it and no longer recognize it"... Close to 18 percent of French farmers live below the official poverty line, and 25 percent are struggling... The E.U.'s "Green Deal" and "Farm to Fork Strategy", which aim to halve chemical pesticide use and cut fertilizer use by 20 percent by 2030 as part of a plan to be carbon neutral by 2050, are a thinly disguised attack on the French economy.... A farmers' protest in January denounced politicians who exert control over people by "imposing things like climate ideology, gender madness and all that nonsense".... "It's war between the Greens and farmers. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.... Tariff-free imports from Ukraine -- where labor is even cheaper -- have given a sobering sense of what eventual Ukrainian membership in the E.U. would mean...). See LENIN BEHIND ENVIRONMENTALISM & ENVIRONMENTALISM is ANIMALISM is COMMUNISM

Engels' influence from Eastbourne to Beijing, Morning Star, June 24, 2023
...an international conference to celebrate the 175th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, organized by the University of Brighton and the International Association of Marx and Engels Humanities Studies... During the last 15 years of his life Engels adopted Eastbourne as his favourite go-to English seaside town.

CHALK FARM ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM

WILLINGDON ANIMAL FARM TOURISM

ANIMAL FARM 1947 RADIO DRAMA

listen Animal Farm 2013 Radio Drama, YouTube

listen Animal Farm 2005 Radio Drama

watch Animal Farm Full Length 1954 Animated Movie, YouTube

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

ANIMAL FARM 1954 animated movie & illustrated book

ORWELL WALKS WILLINGDON DOWNS (...The school was situated on the outskirts of Eastbourne -- that much-frequented resort town -- beyond the seaside promenade and the last of the grand hotels.... Opposite the delightful Victoria pier there is still a hotel on the corner and here at number 4 was Friedrich Engels' holiday home on his regular visits to England. Maybe when Karl Marx and his family came to visit him from June to July 1881 they also stayed here as Engels' guests. The twin founders of Communism had worked together on the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels was a great financial supporter of Marx who was frequently reduced to great poverty and possibly the main purpose of Marx's visit only two years before his death in 1883, was to improve his health. After Engel's death in 1895, in accordance with his last request, Friedrich Engels' ashes were scattered in the sea off Beachy Head....)