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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
It’s not true that humanity is committing suicide, as exemplified by the COP28 farce of a climate summit. The world’s industrialists and financiers are committing humanity to ecocide. More than ever, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Review of ‘The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism’ by Ian Angus: On how peasants fought to protect common land and resisted wage labor.
The beginnings of two important programs of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by Hugo Chávez, are discussed: one, the missions, a new form of social services created to bypass recalcitrant bureaucrats and enable people’s participation; and two, the commune, to enable people to organize at the grassroots level.
Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by an increasing number of the world’s governments. The 2023 Global Rights Index report says that there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights.
Capitalist agriculture is a failure. Market fundamentalists tell us incessantly that the “magic of the market” will ensure everybody has sufficient food. But then why is it that billions of people can’t afford food? It is precisely “markets” that are behind the huge numbers of people with insufficient food.
Book Review. Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini argues that the roles of local bourgeoisies, Northern imperialism, as well as unequal exchange resulting from a subordinate position within a global division of labor, are indispensable to understanding the fate of Global South workers and in particular Latin American underdevelopment.
Its policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost.
The message from the recent Congress of the Communist Party of China is continuation of ongoing restructuring of the economy toward capitalism, albeit on Chinese terms and keeping the “commanding heights” of the economy in state hands.
Past annual Global Rights Index reports issued by the International Trade Union Confederation have invariably shown that there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights and the 2022 edition is not only not an exception but finds that repression of labor organizing is increasing.
Finance capital as a whole is a multi-headed monster with the attributes of a tyrannosaurus rex, killer whale, giant squid and elephant that can swallow ships at sea whole, fly through the air at supersonic speed and never stops eating.
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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