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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth of Marx’s claim, that it’s the labour of workers, and not the supposed intelligence and entrepreneurial spirit of bosses, that keeps society running, has been brought into sharp relief.
Just as trade unions prepare to (virtually) celebrate the May Day this year, a number of state governments have passed amendments to the Factories Act, 1948 reversing the very origins of May Day – the right to an 8-hour working day. Are the amendments lawful?
May Day’s roots lie not only in the great U.S. Eight Hour strikes and marches of 1st May 1886; it also has different and older, “green” roots.
Michael Roberts points out that Marx and Engels were not just economists, but ecological economists.
Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Great Speech’ that remains relevant after 79 years
Despite international sanctions that have ravaged its health sector, Venezuela is demonstrating that prioritising lives is possible in the battle against COVID-19.
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize a determined and immense campaign against its spread.
Capitalism now faces the deepest crisis in its several centuries of existence. Why is supernova–the explosion and death of a star–an apt metaphor for what could now be about to unfold?
The virus does not discriminate, attacking oppressed and oppressor alike. Unfortunately, the US government does more than discriminate. Washington has seen the pandemic as an opportunity.
It is essential to link the fight against the virus to questions such as the abolition of ‘Third World’ debt, an end to IMF/World Bank neoliberal structural adjustment packages, reparations for colonialism, a halt to the global arms trade, an end to sanctions regimes, and so forth.
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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