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With national elections approaching in the Philippines on May 9, there has been a rise in human rights abuses, and so the need for international solidarity is more pressing. A report by a US activist who visited Philippines in solidarity with the democratic movement there.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate on the growing labor movement in the United States following two major victories at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island and a Starbucks roastery in New York City.
The city of Bucha, in Ukraine, has recently come to the attention of Western corporate media, for the purpose of criminalizing Russia for the supposed assassination of 300 civilians. However, the lack of evidence for these claims brings into doubt any allegations that the Russian military was involved.
Multilateral and bilateral institutions as well private philanthropy have had an outsized role in shaping the global health policy agenda. This piece traces the changes globalization has brought to global health governance.
Activists are beginning to undo the damage done by NAFTA. The recent win of an insurgent union to represent workers at the Tridonex auto parts plant in the city of Matamoros, Mexico was a blow to the long unholy alliance between corporations and subservient unions in Mexico.
This interview focuses on the impact of US sanctions and Russian countersanctions on the position of the dollar and US economic power.
Review of the book ‘Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management’. It traces Cuba’s preparedness from the threat of a US invasion following its revolution through its resistance to hurricanes and diseases, which all laid the foundation for current adaptions to climate change.
Mega corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Danone are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it.
AMLO’s policy of rebuilding PEMEX and the Federal Electricity Commission has affected the interests of European capital. That’s why Mexico’s government has drawn attacks recently from international media and the European Union.
If the coal project moves ahead despite the villagers’ resistance, it will decimate villages, farmlands and forests, and pollute the Badmahi river, an important lifeline of the region. It will also have severe climatic impacts over time, including erratic crop cycles and unseasonal rains.
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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