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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Not long ago pundits eulogized the death of Latin America’s “Pink Tide,” which had ripped the continent out of the once-sturdy hands of U.S. imperialism. But victory appears to be sprouting from the freshly plowed fields of defeat; the entire hemisphere is rising up once again.
It is curious that the three American countries that are suffering harsh economic sanctions from the United States are doing much better than the others in their fight against Covid-19. One thing is certain: the pandemic has highlighted the crisis of the neoliberal and capitalist model.
Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty; however, the right, backed by the USA, is trying to steal the elections.
Venezuela’s National Assembly has approved two bills with the aim of further empowering the communal councils and communes that lie at the heart of the country’s project of communal power. However, commune activists have raised concerns about the real intentions behind these bills.
The US counted on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), to control Ethiopia and thereby the Horn of Africa for 30 years, but it’s struggling to regain control now that the TPLF is out of power and the new government in Ethopia is charting an independent foreign policy.
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.
“Never in the history of the G7 has there been a bigger gap between their actions and the needs of the world. In the face of these challenges the G7 have chosen to cook the books on vaccines and continue to cook the planet.”
Race and gender alone are insufficient to explain the results of the recent Presidential elections. Another variable of power is needed that very rarely appears in the treatment of U.S. political life: social class.
China is the world leader in high-speed rail development, sporting more than 35,000 km of high-speed rail, or 68 percent of the world’s total. US think-tanks are criticising China’s rail policies saying that they damage “innovation” by privileging domestic market development and state-owned enterprises over private corporations.
In South Africa, unemployment is at 42.3%. The rate for young people is 74.7%. Millions of young people find that the world does not extend them any kind of welcome. They are, in the words of poet Lesego Rampolokeng, “frustrated hoisted then dropped against the rocks of promise”.
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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