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A recent study found that increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. And Brazilians consume far less of these products than countries with high incomes, implying the impact would be higher in richer nations.
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
Indorca is a factory without bosses in the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. Indorca’s workers carried out a heroic three-year struggle to gain control of the factory after the former owner brought it to a halt. In this interview, Indorca workers talk about their struggle.
The message from the recent Congress of the Communist Party of China is continuation of ongoing restructuring of the economy toward capitalism, albeit on Chinese terms and keeping the “commanding heights” of the economy in state hands.
The uncritical tone of the NITI Aayog’s recent report on the gig economy in India and its belief that platformisation will create an inclusive working environment is, at best, credulous, and, at worst, a deliberate attempt to ignore the erosion of workers’ rights, security and welfare.
Syngenta Group, Bayer, BASF and Corteva control half of the world’s commercial seeds and 62% of the world’s pesticide market. Similarly, four companies control 44% of the global market in farm machinery.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians marched in Sao Paulo Saturday in a final show of support for former president Lula da Silva before Sunday’s election. Also: It’s official: Lula has won. He has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the next president of Brazil.
Ecologist Debal Deb speaks about farmers’ autonomy, the importance of native seeds to material and food culture, and the government’s approach to sustainable agriculture.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s resignation after just 45 days in office, is the result of the enormous international and internal pressures on British imperialism, amid a war with Russia threatening to go nuclear and an unprecedented collapse in living standards.
The Biden administration recently announced a student debt relief plan. Republican politicians have strongly criticised it, saying the country can’t afford it. But what about the bail out of Wall Street by the Federal Reserve in the early days of the pandemic for nearly as much as it would cost to cancel all student debt?
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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