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The Modi government is going to come under immense pressure in the coming days to move into the Western camp on the burning issues of Ukraine and NATO’s further expansion, which would “change the world,” as President Biden framed the paradigm in stark historical terms last week.
Amnesty International recently released a 280-page report with a sharp headline, “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians.” Amnesty “concluded that Israel has perpetrated the international wrong of apartheid, as a human rights violation and a violation of public international law.”
In refusing to acknowledge Russia’s concerns about U.S. and Western intervention on its borders, the Biden administration is engaging in hypocrisy. Lying to others is part of the political game, but the United States is lying to itself in denying that it committed to limit NATO’s role in East Europe.
Streets in some of Myanmar‘s main cities were nearly deserted on February 1 as opponents of military rule held “silent strikes”, marking the first anniversary of a coup that led to deadly chaos and snuffed out tentative steps towards democracy.
Brazil’s MST have achieved something even Gandhi never could: the combination of constructive alternatives with broad-based resistance.
Chávez’s agriculture minister talks about the revolutionary changes in land tenure that took place under the former president.
When studying history, we must always remember that it is the victors that write history. It is the duty, therefore, of every socialist to tell it like it was, and is, at every opportunity. In the battle of ideas that we wage against the ruling class, we must not concede them one inch in interpreting the past.
Now that Chile is about to inaugurate a president who is a fierce champion of human rights, it is time to memorialize victims of the Pinochet dictatorship – maybe then Kast, an ultra-right admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, would have less support.
January 27th is Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day to remember and honour those killed through systematic butchery in that brutal and sadistic era. And a day where those of us who stand as witnesses declare “never again.” And yet, it has happened again. And again. And again.
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains. This year too, the Clock remains the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse.
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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