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The triumph of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, candidates of the Historic Pact, for President and Vice President, in the second round of the Colombian presidential elections is an extraordinary victory, with not only national but also continental projections.
In the June parliamentary elections, while the right-of-center government of President Macron’s Together! bloc failed to win a majority in the National Assembly, winning 245 of 577 seats, a leftwing coalition, NUPES, took a surprising second place, with 131 seats.
Three journalists – Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel – are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: financial suffocation, censorship, threats and imprisonment, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. They illustrate the reality of “democracy” in the West.
A poem by the Nobel laureate, who was murdered by General Pinochet’s goons in 1973.
Ten days into the strongest challenge yet to President Guillermo Lasso’s government, the protests only appear to be growing.
The UK’s privatization binge is glorified asset stripping, pure and simple. Spread that over the decades since Thatcher, it is easy to understand why taxes are high (the highest since the 1950s) and the norm has become substandard and overpriced services in the denationalized industries.
The final declaration of the Workers Summit called for a robust internationalism to promote solidarity with the sovereign nations and peoples suffering from sanctions imposed by the US and its allies. Latin America and the Caribbean were proclaimed a zone of peace. Also: “People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles Ends with a Bold Plan for the Future”
The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky puts the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible, in a recent interview entitled “Chronicles of Dissent”.
The current crisis in Sri Lanka is not only a political crisis; it is also a structural breakdown of the way in which neoliberalism has sought to legitimise its own regime of accumulation. This presents an opportunity to propose radical solutions that could reconstruct the State on more egalitarian grounds.
The Summit of the Americas, that began on June 6, has proved to be a major diplomatic failure for the US administration. In protest against Washington’s refusal to invite the Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, and Honduras boycotted the summit.
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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