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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The ‘progressive wave’ in Latin America, which marked the first decade of this century, saw a downturn some years ago, but now in the agitated atmosphere of 2020 it regained its hopes with new electoral victories.
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
The historic nationwide farmers struggle that began on November 26 entered its fourth week on December 17. It intensified and spread across the country after the unprecedented support that was expressed by the people of India through the Bharat Bandh on December 8.
While corporates are free to expand their operations across economic spheres and state boundaries, the BJP is trying to split the farmers’ movement with its dishonest labelling. Also: Farmers support for jailed activists is just – fraternity for Ambedkar was crucial for nation building.
The entire practice of the kisan agitation constitutes an emphatic rejection of the ‘nationalism’ propagated by the corporate-Hindutva alliance, and a recovery of the real nationalism that underlay the anti-colonial struggle and provided the foundation for free India.
The Thai government has been escalating its attacks on democracy activists over the past weeks; but the student led movement is showing no sign of being cowed by the repression.
The former president of Ecuador discusses issues ranging from the repression in his country under its neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange, as well as the prospect of a left-wing victory in Ecuador’s upcoming national elections.
An interview with a key militant of the Chavista collective La Minka, which is part of the continent-wide multi-disciplinary organization Communities in Charge / Latin America Initiative.
Fifty years after it was published, Miliband’s ‘The State in Capitalist Society’ remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of government.
Forty years after his murder in New York City, we remember John Lennon’s record of political engagement as a champion of the anti-war movement and a self-styled “instinctive socialist”—which brought him into conflict with Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover.
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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