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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Between 2015 and 2019, Iceland embarked on two massive trials to test the idea of a shorter workweek. The result was an astounding success for its workers – and a model that deserves to be replicated elsewhere.
The two-day long All India Farmers Convention concluded with a call for Bharat Bandh on Sept 25, 2021; Resolutions passed at the convention; Preparations on for Muzaffarnagar Kisan Mahapanchyat; Karnal lathi-charge; Adani in the Eye of the Storm as Himachal Apple Prices Crash.
While religion had a part to play in the rebellion, the movement in fact registered the resistance of the rural poor to acts of oppression and exploitation perpetrated by feudal landlords and the British colonial state.
Rogelio Mayta, who is pressing for a more democratic process of regional integration, explains why Bolivia is raising its voice against Luis Almagro, head of the OAS, both for his role in the 2019 coup, and his wider political actions, on behalf of the USA, in the domestic affairs of member states.
Amid the debacle of Bolsanaro’s rule, Guilherme Boulos – coordinator of Brazil’s homeless workers, the MTST – speaks about the political crisis, barrio psychoanalysis, the balance sheet of the Lula-Dilma govts, the politics of impeachment and the militancy of practical experience.
Interview with Ivan Acosta, Nicaragua’s minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country’s new “National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development.”
“How Kisan Kranti Can Unite Farmers Across India”: Farmers are trying to build solidarities over issues that matter; “Farmers Campaigning on War Footing for ‘Historic’ Mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar”: Farmers’ leaders are expecting participation of around two lakh farmers on Sept 5.
Gail Omvedt’s life and work was oriented to emancipate Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, poor farming communities, religious minorities and women, who have experienced the consequences of India’s partial and distorted democracy.
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.
The Sudanese revolution has been unique in its depth and scope. Yet the path to progress remains fraught with obstacles.
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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