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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China’s health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
The broad perspective of socialism from below holds that capitalism, by its very nature, breeds opposition and resistance on a global scale; and as that happens, our highest aspiration is to be among the people when they do, and collaborating to best advance the struggle for revolutionary change.
AMLO government has cancelled public-private partnerships for nine public hospitals by simply offering to pay just over 5% of the outstanding debt and fees owed to the companies involved. This is in sharp contrast to Europe – where many governments are gutting their public healthcare services.
In a continent so besieged – trafficking of millions of human beings as slaves, the distribution of territory by Europeans at the end of the 19th century, U.S. intervention against national liberation movements – Cuba’s actions in Africa stand out for their humanism and solidarity.
Michael Lebowitz expounds on the simple truths found in Marx’s theory of value—truths that, nonetheless, have been obscured by decades of incomplete theorizing that has failed to make key distinctions in the relationship between labor, value, and money.
Fifty years after the socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a bloody military coup, an analysis of the events and their lessons for socialists.
The election of Colombia’s first leftist president marked a fundamental shift in the country’s political landscape. Has Petro’s administration fulfilled its pledges one year into office?
The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science.
Teri Mattson moved to Mexico three years ago. She talks about the changes taking place in Mexico, under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the Morena Party and the fourth transformation.
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.
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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