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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST), it is women who organize the day-to-day of the occupations, head up the assemblies in the territories, and participate in the negotiations for land. A discussion with two women leaders of the MTST.
After five days of strikes and roadblocks by rural workers, Peru’s Congress forced to repeal the pro-corporate Agrarian Promotion Laws.
The UN Emissions Gap Report released on Dec 9 points out that the 1% richest people on the planet are responsible for emissions equal to that of the poorest 50% of the world’s population.
The capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first.
The World Meteorological Organization’s draft report on global climate change in 2020 describes continued deterioration on all fronts.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it.
The very future of civilisation is in peril – the intervention time left for mankind is rapidly shrinking.
Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.
Nearly a third of the 100 cities in the world susceptible to ‘water risk’ — defined as losses from battling droughts to flooding — are in India, according to the WWF Water Risk Filter.
“Terracide.” A new word – it’s meant to encompass the almost unimaginable – what the big energy companies are doing on and to our planet right now. Their execs are consciously destroying/melting it for profit and if that doesn’t make them terrorists – or terrarists, what does?
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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