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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.
It was in Cuba that Hemingway wrote his iconic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. That book won him the Nobel Prize in October 1954. “This is one prize that belongs to Cuba, because my work was conceived and created in Cuba,” he said.
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
Evidence suggests that the world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware has been misused and greater accountability and oversight is needed. Also – Edward Snowden Calls for a Global Moratorium on Spyware Trade.
The UN Food Systems Summit, including a ‘pre-summit’, is facilitating global corporatisation of agriculture. To mobilise against it, more than 300 global organisations of small-scale food producers, researchers and indigenous peoples are organising a protest pre-summit.
On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all?
When they tell me, a Brazilian, that there is no democracy in Cuba, I descend from the abstraction of words to reality. How many photos and news have been seen or are seen of Cubans in misery, beggars scattered on the sidewalks, children abandoned in the streets, families under the viaducts?
Interview with Silke Pérez, a member of the Association of Rural Workers, on the past and present of the Sandinista Revolution and the challenges that lie ahead this year which sees the country head to the polls for presidential elections.
Hale was charged in 2019 during the Trump administration after leaking the top secret documents to a reporter.
Cabral, the leader of Guinea Bissau’s freedom struggle, was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins on January 20, 1973. He had become a widely influential theorist of decolonization and non-deterministic, creatively applied re-Africanization.
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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