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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
At a time when the urban leadership was keen on rapid industrialisation, Gandhi concluded that it was necessary to revive village industries. The development of the village economy was meant to be the answer to the debate between the economic ideologies of capitalism and communism.
Under the present-day social structure of accumulation, education has been reduced to intellectual labor-power – a commodity whose consumption can potentially produce more value than the commodity itself contains.
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
Walter Rodney wrote, “The development of Europe [was] part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.” In recent decades, Canada has played an outsized role in this process of underdevelopment – particularly in Burkina Faso.
On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all?
The world’s top athletes coming together in a spirit of friendly competition is a beautiful vision. But the Olympics have become a machine for the ruthless extraction of profit at the expense of working-class people.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Even though Marx did not write a great deal on gender, and did not develop a systematic theory of gender and the family, it was, for him, an essential category for understanding the division of labor, production, and society in general.
Cabral, the leader of Guinea Bissau’s freedom struggle, was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins on January 20, 1973. He had become a widely influential theorist of decolonization and non-deterministic, creatively applied re-Africanization.
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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