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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Book Review of ‘Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population’, by Matthew Connelly, Harvard University Press: A story of how some people have tried to control others ruthlessly and manipulatively, without having to answer to anyone, in ways that are shocking.
A new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves wellbeing and productivity; In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work.
One of the most forceful voices defending the rights of the Guatemalan indigenous population has been Rigoberta Menchú. Born to a poor indigenous family from El Quiché, a rural area in north-central Guatemala, her activism won her international recognition.
In this third and final part on the Che Guevara Commune of Venezuela, a look at the Commune’s efforts to provide social assistance to the community at a time when US imposed sanctions are interfering with educational and health services in the country.
Though Ishrat Afreen remains forgotten and neglected in her own country, she is an institution unto herself.
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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