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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
2024 may well be a kairos moment for us here in the United States. There’s so much at stake, so much to lose, but if Howard Zinn were with us today, I suspect he would look at the rise of bold and visionary organizing, led by generations of young leaders, and tell us that change, on a planet in deep distress, is coming soon.
We’re not living in a time of insufficiency, but in a golden age of plenty amid grotesque poverty, of abundance amid unbearable forms of abandonment.
If the U.S. is to redeem itself with a vision of justice, it’s time for a deep and humble acknowledgement of the breadth and depth of poverty in the richest country in human history.
The Biden administration recently announced a student debt relief plan. Republican politicians have strongly criticised it, saying the country can’t afford it. But what about the bail out of Wall Street by the Federal Reserve in the early days of the pandemic for nearly as much as it would cost to cancel all student debt?
More than half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, his message remains tragically relevant in our seemingly never-ending pandemic-ridden moment, still rife with racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
In the midst of the pandemic, with the latest Mother’s Day just past, perhaps it’s an auspicious moment to celebrate not just mothers, but women more generally. After all, during the pandemic, women have found themselves on the front lines in so many ways …
These are times of staggering danger, but also enormous possibility. In a world distinctly stacked against us, we must believe that we can succeed.
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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