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As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. We need to take urgent steps to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy.
Racial capitalism as a theoretical and analytical framework increases both our explanatory and our predictive power. Black and other racialized workers in the core and periphery are being disproportionately exploited—we must grasp this if we want to save lives.
Despite all of the inevitable contradictions, China stands out in the present planetary emergency in having a leadership that has advanced an ambitious vision of ecological civilization with the strong support of the Chinese population, incorporating this directly into its five-year plans.
Every year, on the birth anniversary of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia (23 March), demands are made to the government for posthumous conferment of Bharat Ratna on Dr. Lohia. However, it would be an injustice to Lohia’s legacy if the government/ ruling class indeed conferred Bharat Ratna on Lohia.
Capitalism breeds oppression. Capitalism atomises workers generally. Workplaces can make workers compete according to skills and results, but also by pitching workplace against workplace. This is one of the secrets allowing capitalists to undermine united working class resistance.
On this day in 1871, the working class of Paris seized control of the capital and established the Commune. Though it ruled for just two months, it still stands as a vivid example of the kind of society workers themselves can create, according to their own vision of freedom and equality.
Mahapanchayats in Madhya Pradesh; Despite intense repression, Gujarat farmers form new organisation to oppose farm laws; Padyatras, rallies taking place across the country; Farmers and workers come together to oppose privatisation of public sector banks and insurance; and more.
An Iraqi war veteran writes, “Yes, I will continue to speak out about the war. It’s my responsibility. I have to answer to two groups of people: my loved ones (family and friends) and the people of Iraq – to whom I owe an outstanding debt, one I will spend the rest of my time repaying.”
The author analyses the utility of the genre for both reactionary and progressive politics.
From the beginning, International Women’s Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism; also an article by Kollantai on IWD written in 1920.
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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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