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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In August 2020, following the Belarusian presidential election, the opposition has organised protests, calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko. Nadezhda, a Belarusian journalist, provides an anti-imperialist overview for what is taking place.
The IMF and the ICC, the self-avowed voice of big business, say that while the world economy is expected to recover in 2021, the rich countries could lose as much as $5 trillion if they don’t help vaccinate the rest of the world.
Many people believe that Marx was obsessed only with class and had little appreciation of how issues of gender, racism and colonialism inter-related with class and the struggle for human emancipation. The author says that Marx’s writings have been misrepresented.
Professor Hudson discusses “Changes in Super Imperialism: The position of the USA & China in our Global Economic System”.
Angel Prado, El Maizal commune’s key spokesperson, talks about the role of the commune in the transition to socialism, the communards’ critical support of the government and their plans for an ambitious education and training initiative.
A Dual Metabolic Rupture between humanity and the planet is taking place, as industrial pollution destroys our ecosystem, and agribusiness generates wave after wave of killer pathogen. Globalised, financialised monopoly-capitalism has become an existential threat to life on Earth.
The international context of why the Indian government and corporate houses are pushing to seize control of farmers’ lands.
Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.
The recent farm bills will impose the neoliberal shock therapy of dispossession and dependency, finally clearing the way to restructure the agri-food sector. The massive inequalities and injustices that have resulted from the COVID-related lockdowns are a mere taste of what is to come.
As the enthusiasm for war on terror ebbs in America, Pentagon hawks have been searching for new wars and escalations – the new targets are China and Russia. While this guarantees more money for the Pentagon, it hasn’t made the US safer; the wars are also coming back home.
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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