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70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict.
A recent study finds that over the period 1960 to 2017, total transfers from the ‘emerging and developing economies’ to the ‘advanced economies’ was around $152 trillion. These resources could have ended extreme poverty 15 times over, but instead they were transferred gratis to the core.
On McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth: Global heating and climate breakdown are with us now, rather than a vague ten thousand years down the line. We confront the greatest threat in human history. I am seeking to paint a picture – however grim – of what our future world is set to be like.
Finance capital as a whole is a multi-headed monster with the attributes of a tyrannosaurus rex, killer whale, giant squid and elephant that can swallow ships at sea whole, fly through the air at supersonic speed and never stops eating.
Poem in honor of Rabindranath Thakur.
The Queen contributed nothing to the common weal and represented all that is reactionary about the society in which she and her parasitic brood exist. The sheer extent of royal sponging off the public is something to behold. Also, a look at how the hereditary power of the royal family still has an impact on the course of British political life.
The summer has seen a steady stream of workforce mobilizations in the USA.
If we accept that life expectancy is a good measure of human development, the latest data are revealing: Life expectancy fell in the U.S. in 2021 to its lowest since 1996, mainly due to COVID-19 deaths. In contrast, life expectancy China throughout the COVID pandemic!
Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, because of post-colonial monetary arrangements imposed on these countries by France, which have allowed for their continual exploitation by France.
Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis since capitalism is the principal cause of the crisis. One hundred of the world’s largest corporations are responsible for 71% of global industrial greenhouse gases; but these corporations are not prepared to accelerate the energy transition.
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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