India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Socialists had been a significant force in American politics before they were so ruthlessly crushed in the 1920s. If the Socialist Party hadn’t been so hobbled, maybe they would have pushed the mainstream parties into creating a stronger social safety net that people today take for granted in countries like Canada or Denmark.
Current talks between Washington and Tehran’s rulers to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement have been stalled, and there is little hope that progress will be made any time soon. Naturally, the U.S. places the blame on Tehran. However, U.S. propaganda grossly distorts the reality of the situation.
Vietnam too has embraced the neoliberal order with open arms. It has led to sand mining, deforestation, overfishing in the South China Sea, and widespread water pollution.
While AFRICOM training has not helped African security forces curb terrorism, it has enabled them to repress civilian protests against reactionary African leaders who align with U.S. interests. It has also boosted corporate profits associated with the lucrative counterterrorism industry.
The chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has recently written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency. Most certainly, it serves to remind the Russian people and foreigners alike that nothing has been forgotten, nothing forgiven.
Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years).
In this interview, Jacques Baud talks about the latest situation in the geopolitical struggle that is the Ukraine-Russia war. He argues that the world is not either black or white and that Western countries have taken the situation too far.
“I am endlessly grateful to American literature. But it is gone. I come to its tombstones, and I mourn. But after laying down some flowers in front of great names, I know that it is time to move on…. This is not the America that I loved and admired. That is why I do not live there, anymore, for many years.”
Protest the stabbing of Salman Rushdie by all means. But don’t forget to protest even more loudly the silencing and disappearing of Julian Assange.
After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, killing between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians, top U.S. government officials lied, claiming there was “no radioactive residue” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were “propaganda.”
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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