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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Millions of working-class families in the United States are so poor they can’t afford to shop at grocery stores any more. They’re buying food at 99 cent stores instead.
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
There’s nothing equal about disease under capitalism. It wasn’t inevitable that one out of 35 people older than 85 in the U.S. died of COVID-19.
For Indians who had newly joined the growing middle class, the economic crisis following the pandemic has dealt a severe blow.
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the stark reality of Africa’s extreme dependence on imports to feed our populations.
Scientists describe a ‘culture of silence’ at ICMR, with researchers worried that they would be passed over for opportunities if they questioned their superiors.
Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.
Communal gardens and farming enterprises are the beginning of sustainable food sovereignty in South Africa, but a basic income grant is essential to address hunger in the shorter term.
Book Review: ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’ compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., in the words of “social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
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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