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The gains made by the West in the world’s richest energy zone since the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945 have been breathtaking. A brief survey of the region can help to highlight what has been lost and signal the direction in which it is heading.
In his address to Congress, President Trump ignored the concerns of working people, boasted about his billionaire-run government, and doubled down on the tariffs that economists say may trigger another Great Depression. In a response, Bernie Sanders says while the fight for a progressive future may feel hopeless, “despair is not an option”.
In a veritable blitzkrieg, the Trumpist fascists have changed U.S. and global society irrevocably in a matter of weeks. We need a leftwing network of resistance to Trumpist fascism that, while firmly anti-capitalist, avoids the pitfalls of both campism and class reductionism.
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei is promoting crypto scams and overseeing rapid deindustrialisation. Manufacturing and construction are collapsing, while the financial sector and mining grow. The majority of Argentines live in poverty, but the stock market is booming.
Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, the authors show how during the 1980s-90s, structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy and other resources than they received in imports.
The IAEA has supported Japan in its plan to pump wastewater left from cooling Fukushima’s melted reactor fuel into the Pacific, in spite of its own formal published guidelines which advise against it. Now, the Japanese government plans to allow millions of tons of radioactive soil to be used in public works projects, and even agriculture.
In Germany’s special election on Sunday, seven months earlier than the normal date because the trio-run government collapsed, there were 29 parties on the long paper ballots. But only 7 had a chance to retain their presence in the Bundestag. The final count: 3 wins, 4 losses.
While PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s historic call raises hopes of ending 40 years of conflict with Turkey, peace is by no means guaranteed.
‘Adieu: Africa’s Military Breakup with France is Official’; ‘French Neocolonialism in Africa Reorganizing Under the Cover of Retreat’; ‘Sahel Alliance Unveils New Flag as Regional Bloc Moves Toward Greater Integration’; and: ‘Canada Suffers Economic Losses as Burkina Faso Nationalises Land, Revokes Mining Permits’.
Sheinbaum, a 62–year-old intellectual with a doctorate in environmental sciences, proved her mettle as mayor of Mexico City before she won the presidency in last year’s elections. And she has proved it all over again by way of her first encounters with the just-elected Trump.
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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