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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In one corner of Syria — the northern border regions known to the Kurds as Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava stands defiantly as a beacon for human solidarity, cooperation, and progress.
This article, first published on October 17, 2017 by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, seeks to tell the truth and learn the lessons of the US war in Indochina, and of the broad, diverse protest movement that ended the war.
Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma. Also: “Industrial Farming has Killed Billions of Birds”.
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
Under stewardship of the Sandinistas, Nicaragua remains a beacon for social progress despite crushing U.S. sanctions.
First published in 1952, I. F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History …’ was a stunning indictment of the U.S. war machine and the mass media’s unquestioning acceptance of the government’s deception. This new introduction explores the book’s continuing relevance to current events, including the rapidly escalating New Cold War.
A young person was brutally shot to death during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27, prompting mass demonstrations and rebellions in various areas in France.
Why are the conservatives so popular in debt-ridden Greece, and what lessons can be gained for the left worldwide from the electoral collapse of Syriza? Political scientist and political economist C.J. Polychroniou discusses these questions.
On June 19, a large Israeli military force raided the northern Palestinian town and refugee camp of Jenin from multiple directions. Not only did the raid fail, it backfired, and it also created a precedent in Israel’s decades-long war on the ever-rebellious Palestinian region.
Let us get to know Dr. Nkrumah, one of the most distinguished politicians of the nation of Ghana and of Africa, one of the founders of the “Non-Aligned Movement”, a close friend of Mao Zedong, Nehru, Tito, Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno and Nasser.
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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