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In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so much as he was against the U.S. empire and its machinations against the Vietnamese and their generational struggle for self-determination.
On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the U.S. back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere? Possibly, and he may be blowing away the fraudulent rhetoric about rules-based international order, territorial integrity, international law and the crusade to expand democracies.
Besides US policy in Cuba, it’s hard to find another case of such an ongoing and sustained assault from the largest empire in the world on a tiny island country like Haiti, which has been dominated by foreign rulers for well over five centuries at this point.
After expelling the French military, the people of Niger are fighting to overthrow the remaining colonial structures. Also: “Niger: Women Play a Leading Role in Reconstruction”.
Since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3, a steady stream of revelations has emerged from reporters and investigators, painting an increasingly disturbing picture of events.
Lebanon’s presidential elections reveal a troubling yet familiar reality. While leaders speak of sovereignty, foreign powers control the presidency, with ambassadors and threats dictating the outcome – leaving the Lebanese people to bear the consequences.
President Gustavo Petro’s Historic Pact government, in power since 2022, is a first in Colombia’s history. No other party ever aspired to serve all Colombians. Its existence depends on push-back against Colombia’s peculiar mix of corporations, big landowners, financial moguls, and narco-traffickers. Difficulties are cropping up now that call for sharpened resistance.
Amiya Kumar Bagchi left behind, not merely a set of writings, but a coherent, powerful body of work that constitutes a major challenge to the ‘received version’ of economic history issued from the centres of western academia.
François Kamate, a young climate and human rights defender from Democratic Republic of Congo, speaks on the current security, humanitarian, and ecological crises in the DRC.
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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