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Facing an unprecedented challenge from popular opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu, President Erdogan is launching a sweeping crackdown that could determine not just the next election – but the future of democracy in Turkiye.
The text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen’s College, New York, USA in 1975. The author talks of the relevance of Marxism to Africa.
A series of actions on Thursday (13 March) led by women from Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) increased the pressure on the Lula government to push agrarian reform policies forward.
The author examines South Africa’s Expropriation Act—presented as legal reform yet bound by legal bureaucracy, market interests, and political hesitation. Does it offer real redress, or is justice once again deferred?
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.
Poets have mostly stood on the wrong side of the power and took upon themselves the task of making the truth known. Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed is not from our tribe”.
On the struggles of the founding mothers of the Indian Constitution who fought for building a democratic nation where all citizens, regardless of gender, would enjoy equal rights.
On 1 February 2025, Zakiaben was called to her eternal reward. In her death, the people of India have lost a great soul. She suffered much since that fateful day, when her dear husband Ehsan Jafri was brutally murdered. Since then, she fought relentlessly for justice not merely for herself but all women and other victims of an unjust and violent system.
The Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand promotes state control in personal relationships, including marriages, divorces, matrimonial disputes, and live-in relationships, as well as in matters of succession and inheritance. Also: ‘Live-in Relationships and the War Against Women’s Agency’; and: ‘Why This Live-In Couple is Taking on Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code’.
Tamil Nadu’s clash with the Union government over Hindi reveals how profoundly language influences questions of identity, autonomy, and social opportunity. Also: ‘Why the Three-Language Formula Threatens South India’.
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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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