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The IMF recently forecast a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. A recent paper argues that U.S. military spending, the scale of the United States in global consumption, the role of the Wall Street-Dollar-IMF regime, and other factors play a key role in this crisis.
While supporters argue that the IMF package will help boost foreign exchange reserves and benefit the economy, people from low-income groups say they believe that the package will create more hardships.
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s culpability can be said to lie in steering the country into the clutches of neo-liberalism, though it may not have had a choice.
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum. This article seeks to map the large areas of agreement between the two, and lists some of the main arguments for an ecosocialist degrowth.
Dear Stan, today, 26 April, is your earthly birthday! We are celebrating fond memories of you, thanking God for the gift of you to this earth and her people, and above all trying to see in what ways we can internalise and actualise the rich legacy we have inherited from you!
A look at some of the most important labor struggles of this past year.
A summary of the most important changes between the version of the Summary for Policymakers—the third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022 Sixth Assessment Report—leaked in August last year and the one finally published.
An excerpt from ‘Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy’.
The central government has raked in over Rs. 18 lakh crore from excise duties compared to Rs. 14 lakh crore from taxes by all state governments over the past eight years.
India Wants to Spend Rs 19,300 Crore on Rejuvenating Yamuna and 12 Other Rivers Through Plantations; Ganga Still Suffers – But Govt Thinks ‘Successful’ Rejuvenation Is a Blueprint for Other Rivers: The proposal doesn’t address the real issues behind the degradation of rivers.
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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