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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A new study finds Greenland’s ice sheet thinning much further into the ice sheet core than previously thought, 100 miles inland. The implications are extremely concerning and far-reaching especially for sea level rise.
Food sovereignty activists challenge a wealthy white man’s flawed assumptions, hubris, and ignorance.
A company run by Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, is strip-mining tribal lands for fossil fuels. Forest-dwellers are fighting back.
Not only is the gig economy devastating its workers, but there are ongoing efforts to expand the model to nearly all American workplaces. It is estimated that 36 percent of the US workforce are gig, contract, freelance and temporary workers. And the numbers are only growing.
U.S.-supplied weaponry has fuelled conflicts, enabled human-rights violations, and helped destabilize not just individual countries but entire regions.
A recent study found that increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. And Brazilians consume far less of these products than countries with high incomes, implying the impact would be higher in richer nations.
In late October, rumours about mass infections of COVID-19 led to workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou jumping over factory walls to escape and head home. Eli Friedman talks about the history of Foxconn’s treatment of workers in China, and says that the exodus is a form of collective action in the absence of independent unions.
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
The horrific conditions faced by workers for the World Cup in Qatar shows business priorities overwhelm the sport. Also: interview with Hiba Zayadin, Gulf researcher at Human Rights Watch, to get a better understanding of the issues involved.
If the so-called ‘educated’, urban, modern world is to have any hope of making peace with the earth, it has to listen to the cosmologies and ways of life of indigenous cultures. It has to at least respect, if not re-learn, how to view itself as a part of nature.
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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