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Éric Toussaint compares events in Sri Lanka with what took place in Greece in 2015 and in Argentina between 2019 and 2023, with the attendant risk of a hard-Right government coming to power in the future.
On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
All the warning lights are flashing: there is a very significant economic slowdown without any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental damage; the drastic effects of the ecological crisis, especially as manifested by climate; a huge increase in public and private debt …
Beginning with a historical overview of debt, this article argues that the imposition of debt has been a central means by which imperial powers regained controlling influence over their former colonies following independence movements.
Germany benefited from the cancellation of most of its debt in 1953, which was instrumental in helping the country regain its position as a leading economic power. Since then, no other country has received such favourable treatment. A discussion on the why and how of this debt cancellation.
Article discusses the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation that began in the 15th century. This part discusses the impact of globalisation since the 19th century.
This study covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
Knowledge, scientific discoveries, and technical processes ought to be common goods of humankind. However, Big Pharma is engaged in private appropriation of knowledge and techniques, notably through patents, enabling it to rake in colossal profits, esp. during the corona pandemic.
Piketty’s definition corresponds with those found in standard economic textbooks. However, they are wrong. Capital is a social relationship that enables a minority (the richest 1%), to get richer by exploiting the labour of others.
How can we explain that a significant part of popular votes did not go to the leftist candidate Andres Arauz to prevent the neoliberal banker Guillermo Lasso from getting elected? What are the lessons to be drawn?
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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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