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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
While Trump is operating an overtly barbarous campaign against immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people, and other groups, the continued use of Guantánamo demonstrates that this is much bigger than just one president: the United States is a carceral-imperial state.
The Trump administration has reimposed its maximum pressure campaign on Iran, triggering a currency crash, soaring inflation, and worsening energy shortages, while Tehran scrambles to offset the impact by reducing dependence on oil exports and strengthening economic ties with China and Russia.
As Iran and Russia-backed forces in Sudan achieve major battlefield successes, Tehran and Moscow look to gain a strategic Red Sea foothold to compensate for their setbacks in Syria.
Book Review: Refaat Alareer, ‘If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose’ and ‘Gaza Writes Back’. His final message is worth heeding: “As Palestinians, no matter what comes of this, we haven’t failed. We did our best. And we didn’t lose our humanity.”
Trump’s proposals express the harsh reality that U.S. imperialism is experiencing an inexorable decline. Also: While Trump is making a big show of its power and executing a shock-and-awe blitzkrieg-style assault on working people and democracy with a flood of executive orders, Trump’s government is not as invincible as it might seem.
Trump’s invasion and deportation spiels have not only proved popular with his large constituency but also with private prison companies like GEO Group and others building the present and future nightmarish infrastructure for a world of deportation.
Trump’s tariff plan exposes the perils of Canada’s dependency on the US and the price of integration within the American Empire. Adam King discusses these issues with Sam Gindin.
Colombia’s government on January 26 refused to allow two U.S. military planes to land. They were returning Colombian deportees from the United States to their homeland. In taking action, Petro insisted that the deportees traveling handcuffed in a military plane were not criminals and ought to be treated with dignity.
Trump’s musings immediately invited questions about whether the president sees Gaza as a potential real estate investment opportunity.
“Trump’s Tariffs vs. China’s Long Game”: This latest salvo in the long-simmering trade spat between the world’s two largest economies raises eyebrows and questions in equal measure. Also: “The U.S. Sees China Through the Dark Mirror of its Own Unbridled Aggression”.
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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