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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Martin Luther King’s characterisation, “The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor”, perfectly describes what is happening in the USA during the pandemic.
Since its inception the US has brutally repressed every country that stood in its way of its expansion for control of resources and its entitlement to limitless accumulation of vast wealth for a few.
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
The problem is not Trump, but a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. If we do not stand up, we will enter a new dark age.
By early July, known infections in the US exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. But a deeper shows that the virus has been highly selective in the suffering it’s caused and the lives it’s taken.
In Latin America, the pandemic has furthered – sometimes dramatically – a series of economic and social processes that were already underway before the virus emerged.
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. A look at US wars in Philippines, Korea, Vietnam …
Two years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won New York-14, the grassroots progressive movement has spread to surrounding congressional districts in New York.
The new movement in the United States against police and other state violence is now calling the perpetrators of crimes against humanity to account.
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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