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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Engels observed that because of the environmental and epidemiological conditions in the working class districts, disease and mortality rates are high there. He called it social murder. The current COVID-19 pandemic is related to social murder in several ways.
Experts warn: failure to rapidly ‘vaccinate the world’ may lead to Covid-19 mutations proliferating widely enough to make a majority of first-generation vaccines ineffective; Global billionaire wealth surged $4 trillion during pandemic, while cost of vaccinating the world is only $141.2 billion.
The TRIPS agreement awards pharmaceutical corporations the power to decide who lives and who dies, as well as what we will live on and what we will die from. Capitalism has made a business out of life and death.
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. We need to take urgent steps to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy.
Racial capitalism as a theoretical and analytical framework increases both our explanatory and our predictive power. Black and other racialized workers in the core and periphery are being disproportionately exploited—we must grasp this if we want to save lives.
Household incomes in india are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock; How daily wage workers in india suffered in the lockdown; COVID-19 laid bare the exploitation that domestic workers face; Lockdown fallout: Distress stalks garment workers in Ludhiana.
Pandemic pushed 32 million Indians out of middle class; number of poor people went up by 75 million; 375 million children suffering Covid-19’s after-effects; Unemployment in Delhi rose by 17.4 percentage points; School closures impacted 247 million Indian children.
The WTO once again succumbed to pressure from the pharma corporations that argued that waiving patents would fundamentally undermine the global response to COVID-19 without providing any significant benefits to underdeveloped nations. A completely fraudulent argument!
COVID-19, SARS and Ebola—three diseases that spread across national borders since 2002—share one thing in common: they were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests, which are losing more than 100 trees per second due to rampant, unsustainable deforestation.
Biden’s relief package comes to almost 10% of US GDP; this comes on top of a similar package announced by Trump earlier. It not only represents a jump in social expenditure, it is primarily being financed by taxing the rich. A sharp difference from what has been done by Modi in India.
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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