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The US government has fully backed the repression unleashed by Hernández led Honduran government on its people, including providing training, supplies, and funding for Honduras’s police and military – as Hernandez has allowed US corporations to freely enter and plunder the country.
The work of this Bolivian women’s group illustrates the long arc of Indigenous resistance to colonialism.
After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.
Two eminent anthropologists talk about the historical and cultural roots of the communes that Venezuelans are building today.
Report of a webinar hosted by the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP): “AFRICOM at 13: Building the Popular Movement for Demilitarization and Anti-Imperialism in Africa.” It featured voices from countries most affected by AFRICOM, including internationally-known activists for liberation.
Today the destruction wrought by capitalism manifests itself in climate change and destruction of the environment. We are now living with a gigantic and ever-growing ecological rift. By showing the rift is irreparable under capitalism, Marx made clear the need for ecosocialists to build a new system.
Eric Williams’ groundbreaking ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ placed slavery at the heart of the rise of capitalism and the British Empire. But in his subsequent career as a politician – he became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago – Williams was hardly seen as an avatar of radicalism.
The second part of this series discusses how in two great waves of social change, landlords and capitalist farmers conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, incorporated the soil into capital, and created for the urban industries the necessary supplies of free and rightless proletarians.
In the name of economic reforms, the government is promoting corporate interests: the farm laws are meant to benefit large agribusiness corporations; 100% FDI in food retail will enable companies such as Amazon to enter food retail, and destroy small and medium retail traders.
There’s nothing equal about disease under capitalism. It wasn’t inevitable that one out of 35 people older than 85 in the U.S. died of COVID-19.
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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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