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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Does the Japanese people’s deliberately induced ignorance of their wartime and postwar past “condemn them to repeat it,” this time allied to the US whose citizens, like the Japanese, have had the true nature of their own government’s wartime imperialism concealed from them?
On 3 April 2022, Hungarian voters went to the polls and awarded Viktor Orbán a fourth consecutive mandate to govern. The main opposition coalition, United for Hungary (EM), was expected to win at least 40%, but instead picked up a paltry 35% and 56 seats.
Activists are beginning to undo the damage done by NAFTA. The recent win of an insurgent union to represent workers at the Tridonex auto parts plant in the city of Matamoros, Mexico was a blow to the long unholy alliance between corporations and subservient unions in Mexico.
The “financial vultures” who are tightening the noose of indebtedness in order to gain still greater advantages at a historic moment when humanity is suffering sanitary, humanitarian and ecological disasters, must be denounced.
Despite facing many challenges, commune-building goes forward in Venezuela, driven by grassroots bases whose commitment comes from their political consciousness. Now, attempts are being made to build unity and coordinate these efforts – the most important being the Communard Union.
Cuba continues to face great challenges. Yet it’s clear that President Díaz-Canel is leading a profound renewal of the Cuban Revolution in a process that seeks to face these challenges by empowering local leaders and citizens to become democratic problem-solvers within their communities.
Sabarmati Ashram is not only a monument to Bapu and Ba. It is a monument to Satyagraha, our unique non-violent mass movement for freedom.
Filling up these posts itself would contribute to reducing the raging joblessness that has haunted India in the past several years, but the government does not seem to care.
The hikes are hitting the poor the most. What is needed, therefore, is a policy mix that includes direct taxes on the rich as well as quantitative rationing of petro-products.
The letter says, “You should hold talks with your own people and see whether they see a project that will benefit the speed-crazy is worthy of the investment required. If the ordinary people feel that Silver Line is in the interest of the state, please go ahead. Otherwise, drop it like a hot potato!”
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