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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate last burst of fossil fuel exploitation.
Communal gardens and farming enterprises are the beginning of sustainable food sovereignty in South Africa, but a basic income grant is essential to address hunger in the shorter term.
Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.
A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.
Book Review: ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’ compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., in the words of “social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
Amid the debacle of Bolsanaro’s rule, Guilherme Boulos – coordinator of Brazil’s homeless workers, the MTST – speaks about the political crisis, barrio psychoanalysis, the balance sheet of the Lula-Dilma govts, the politics of impeachment and the militancy of practical experience.
Interview with Ivan Acosta, Nicaragua’s minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country’s new “National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development.”
Lesley Blume, a journalist and biographer, tells the fascinating story of the background to John Hersey’s pathbreaking article “Hiroshima,” and of its extraordinary impact upon the world.
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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