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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Activists are beginning to undo the damage done by NAFTA. The recent win of an insurgent union to represent workers at the Tridonex auto parts plant in the city of Matamoros, Mexico was a blow to the long unholy alliance between corporations and subservient unions in Mexico.
Despite facing many challenges, commune-building goes forward in Venezuela, driven by grassroots bases whose commitment comes from their political consciousness. Now, attempts are being made to build unity and coordinate these efforts – the most important being the Communard Union.
Cuba continues to face great challenges. Yet it’s clear that President Díaz-Canel is leading a profound renewal of the Cuban Revolution in a process that seeks to face these challenges by empowering local leaders and citizens to become democratic problem-solvers within their communities.
In Colombia, Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have registered as presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, on behalf of the Historic Pact coalition for elections taking place on May 29. They have a good chance of winning, and transforming Colombia.
Bhagat Singh is widely venerated as a radical thinker and political revolutionary. However, he is seldom celebrated as a journalist; an identity that was quite intrinsic to his critical thinking, individuality and revolutionary integrity.
The ‘Bharat Bandh’ strike was called for by ten central trade unions against the “anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policies” of the Union government. Their demands included scrapping of the new labour codes, no privatisation, increased allocation of wages under MNREGA, among others.
Review of the book ‘Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management’. It traces Cuba’s preparedness from the threat of a US invasion following its revolution through its resistance to hurricanes and diseases, which all laid the foundation for current adaptions to climate change.
Did Karl Marx have a theory of race and capitalism? Not exactly, but he theorized on these issues for over four decades and much of what he wrote still speaks to us today. At a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat, these writings are worth revisiting.
Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article dissects various aspects of this campaign.
We need a socialist planned economy that can implement a long term plan to make the transformations that are needed for our very survival: a rapid transition off fossil fuels and a restoration of ecosystems to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, restore the water cycle and cool the climate.
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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