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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The most destructive effects of Covid-19 in India have not been the result of the disease, but the nature of the government response. As lockdown was gradually lifted, ten major features of the state response led to resurgence of disease and continued economic distress.
By early July, known infections in the US exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. But a deeper shows that the virus has been highly selective in the suffering it’s caused and the lives it’s taken.
At a recent press briefing, WHO chief Tedros said: “Let me be blunt. Too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one.”
CoronaShock is a term that refers to how a virus struck the world with such gripping force; it refers to how the social order in the bourgeois state crumbled, while the social order in the socialist parts of the world appeared more resilient.
41 years on from the revolutionary triumph of 1979, the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) in Nicaragua looks stronger and with more legitimacy than ever.
How do activists harness the too-often fleeting momentum from “movement moments” to create historic social change?
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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