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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Noam Chomsky: “Chris Hedges has been an incomparable source of insight and understanding, both in his outstanding career as a courageous journalist and in his penetrating commentary on world events.” In this article, Chris once again returns in a deeply personal way to war in his time.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s resignation after just 45 days in office, is the result of the enormous international and internal pressures on British imperialism, amid a war with Russia threatening to go nuclear and an unprecedented collapse in living standards.
IMF’s solution for Lankan debt crisis could be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia have suffered from a variety of U.S. interventions over many years. Proxy wars and unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, are the tools used to prevent these nations from finding a means of peacefully coexisting.
For sure, there is a waft of fresh, soft scents in the air. US Defence Secretary Austin broke the ice on Thursday in consultation with British Defence Secretary Wallace and with Biden’s approval. And Russia voted for a US resolution imposing sanctions against yet another country in the Global South.
While pursuing its reactionary military-strategic rivalry with India, Pakistan’s ruling elite relies upon the military as the bulwark of the capitalist state machine that upholds its privileges and ruthlessly suppresses the democratic, social and economic aspirations of the people.
Giant retailers in the developed economies make huge fortunes in concert with smaller-scale textile and garment factories, the bulk of them in Asia and other parts of the global South. While this has brought luxury for a privileged few, it has plunged millions into a vast matrix of exploitation.
The great Afghan woman martyr, Meena (1956-1987) founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. We reproduce here a part of Meena’s poem which she wrote few months before her martyrdom.
When it comes to Western Sahara, the West’s collective silence can be called nothing but a double standard. An important reason is that many Western countries profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.
Thousands of people formed a human chain around the UK Parliament on October 8 to demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Actions in solidarity with the imprisoned journalist were held across the world, including in Morocco, Brazil, Australia, and the US.
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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