India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A mobile payments system that is publicly controlled, easy to use and without fees (for individuals and small businesses) is “tough to beat.”
‘Your Party: A New Democratic Socialist Party in Britain’: After months of buildup, the founding conference of the Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana-led Your Party took place in Liverpool over November 29–30. Also: ‘Strengths and Weaknesses on Display at Your Party’s Founding Conference’.
President Emmanuel Macron’s fourth Prime Minister in 18 months could fall soon. Several huge days of action with mass strikes and “Blockade Everything” mobilizations, and the record unpopularity of Macron, contribute to the ongoing unravelling of Macronism. The situation opens up important questions for left activists.
As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
‘The Costs of Covid’: The theory that the disease had been created in a lab in China as a weapon against the USA is fictitious. It blends ignorance, bigotry and denial with what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the “paranoid style” in American politics: “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” Also: ‘Covid-19 was 99% Likely from the US’.
Farooq Sulehria discusses the crisis along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the misconceptions within Pakistan’s military establishment, and the shifting global and regional power landscape.
The author reflects on the evolution of her intellectual political relationship to China, a journey that began with limited knowledge of a seemingly far-away land and ends with a nuanced understanding grounded in her on-the-ground experiences as a visiting professor at Peking University.
The atrocities committed by Western imperialist countries against people all over the world over the last several centuries have been so horrendous that using the term “civilization” to cover such behavior appears grotesque.
Centuries of plunder, forced labour and extraction built the wealth of Europe while impoverishing the Global South. The debt owed is not symbolic; it is measurable, moral and political. Reparations are not charity—they are justice long overdue.
‘Climate Talks End With “Empty Deal” That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels’: COP30 concluded on Saturday in Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words “fossil fuels”—the burning of which scientists agree is the primary cause of the climate crisis. Also: ‘COP30: The Shift to Green Capitalism Fails to Materialise’; and: ‘COP30 Isn’t a Failure — It’s a Farce’.
Help us increase our readership.
If you are enjoying reading Janata Weekly,
DO FORWARD THE WEEKLY MAIL to your mailing list and
invite people to subscribe for FREE!