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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Purge of the top official of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, has sent shudders across China. The crackdown was likely an attempt to demonstrate President Xi Jinping’s seriousness in returning to socialism.
Whatever Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats.
Unclear if Fukushima Cleanup Can Finish by 2051: IAEA; Fukushima’s Lasting Tragedy.
A much repeated course of events: More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt. Once again they are being aided by America’s credulous mass media, which is uniformly blaming the Taliban victory on Afghanistan’s incorrigible corruption.
Giant corporations and governments create and finance the action of paramilitary groups, militarize and send the armed forces that assassinate in the name of power and money. However, they have not achieved their goal: to humiliate, denigrate and destroy the struggle for dignity and a full life.
While everyone is talking of the desperate situation of the Afghani people under the dictatorial Taliban, almost no one talks about the effort the Afghan people made in the late 1970s and ’80s to pull free of the legacy of incessantly warring tribes and feudal fiefdoms and start to build a modern democratic state.
A new Balkan left is struggling against the post-socialist predicament, the disasters of capitalist restoration and the chronic crises that plague the European periphery.
Up to now, the US has suffered over 617,000 deaths; China in contrast has suffered fewer than 5,000 deaths in a population four times as large as the US. Could there not be some lessons that might serve us in the West now and in the future?
While India has played a crucial role in bringing the TRIPS waiver proposal to the WTO in October 2020, concerns have been expressed on India’s commitment to the waiver proposal. That is because of Indian government’s stated policy announcements on these matters at home.
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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