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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Ben Roberts-Smith, an Australian veteran of the war in Afghanistan, has launched legal action against journalists for reporting that he murdered six Afghan prisoners of war in 2009 and 2012—and revelled in their killing. At the heart of the case is an attempt to whitewash and rehabilitate the very concept of imperialist war.
James Baldwin’s thoughts on his nephew’s future (in the USA)—in a country with a terrible history of racism— first appeared in The Progressive magazine in 1962. Over 50 years later his words are, sadly, more relevant than ever.
On the birth anniversary of Che Guevara, a recollection of the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico.
Race and gender alone are insufficient to explain the results of the recent Presidential elections. Another variable of power is needed that very rarely appears in the treatment of U.S. political life: social class.
China is the world leader in high-speed rail development, sporting more than 35,000 km of high-speed rail, or 68 percent of the world’s total. US think-tanks are criticising China’s rail policies saying that they damage “innovation” by privileging domestic market development and state-owned enterprises over private corporations.
Creation of all forms of energy contributes to the destruction of nature and human life. It is possible to increase the global quality of life at the same time we reduce the use of fossil fuels and other sources of energy. Therefore, a “deep” GND would focus on energy reduction / conservation.
The abiding essence of the American elite’s foreign policy is: maintaining their dominance over the world, for their own power and profit. (They certainly aren’t doing it for the sake of the nation, which they’ve turned into a rotting husk.)
China seems poised to take leadership of regional efforts to forge a safety net that protects countries in East Asia from the fragility that cross-border financial flows engender.
The only thing we can state with certainty is this: our understanding of the origins of Covid has been narratively managed over the past 15 months and is still being narratively managed. We are being told only what suits powerful political, scientific and commercial interests.
The lesson of every struggle against oppression has been that relying upon an elite few to obtain powerful positions has never won fundamental change for the vast majority of people; they have only been won when ordinary people have united to challenge the elite and the divisive system.
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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