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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Davos is where the lords of transnational capital and their agents gather to hammer out annually how they are to maintain and expand their rule. This year, uncertainty over their ability to manage the crisis, maintain control, restabilize global capitalism was on full display.
Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso: We do not know yet how good or bad the coup governments in these countries will be, but definitely, they have weakened the parasitic hold of France and the USA on a large part of Africa. Also: “Peace Deal Between Ethiopian Government and TPLF Holds Despite Delays in Implementation”.
February 7 saw France’s third nationwide strike and protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts. Also: On February 5, around 50,000 people marched in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen denouncing the government’s plan to abolish the public holiday on ‘Great Prayer Day’.
The Ecuadorian right-wing parties suffered a resounding defeat both in the subnational elections and in the referendum. The Citizen Revolution candidates for the prefectures triumphed in the provinces with the largest population.
Millions of French workers took to the streets in protest as the country was brought to a standstill in a “citizens’ insurrection” over the government’s attack on pension schemes. On February 1, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike.
It is not uncommon to see people point to Denmark as a socialist alternative. This article seeks to correct this misconception and demonstrate that capital accumulation is the guiding principle in Danish society.
Its policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost.
The emergence in our time of a New Cold War has naturally raised the question of whether the Old Cold War ever actually ended—or, from today’s perspective, how the New Cold War reemerged out of the embers of the Old.
Joan Roelofs’ new book The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States, starts with an important question: “Why is there so much acceptance and so little protest against our government’s illegal and immoral wars and other military operations?”
An essay in two parts: i) On the tension in the time frame of Adani Enterprises, including accounts of the strong and sophisticated protests of affected people. ii) An Abstraction from the Concrete, including reflection over the ethics that might drive the Indian Republic. Finally, A Socialist Manifesto is sketched as a resolution of the conflict.
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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