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As clamor grows for Cuban doctors to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their international work during the pandemic, the US continues to oppose their efforts. It cannot be seen to endorse the idea that the socialist system works.
In the call for an ‘atmanirbhar’ Bharat to overcome the COVID-19 crisis is a visceral appeal to Gandhi’s swadeshi. However, in spirit and intent, it’s a violation not just of Gandhi’s swadeshi but of everything he stands for.
Marx called his version of human nature species being. Modern Times is really about species being—our fundamental needs, our drive not to be dehumanized, the survival of our spirits as well as our bodies, the full expression of this limited creature.
All signs are that the 21st century will see a struggle for hegemony over the world economy between the US and China. This may be different from similar struggles in the past, due to the uniqueness of China, which is neither entirely capitalist nor entirely socialist.
UN’s World Food Programme has warned that the numbers of people who lived with acute hunger around the world would double due to COVID-19 by the end of 2020 ‘unless swift action is taken’.
No country can yet claim to have defeated Covid-19, but clearly some are having more success than others; Nicaragua is one of these, and could yet be recognized as a world leader.
Bombay High Court quashes the FIRs against 29 foreigners and six Indian members of the Tablighi Jamaat and chastises the police for “non-application of mind”, hopefully drawing the curtain on the sustained vilification of the largest Muslim organisation in the country.
Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond.
How can we inspire in people both the spirit of individualism (a strong sense of self), balanced with a spirit of solidarity/collectivism. Probably Vietnam provides an answer.
Trump administration wants the baseball and basketball players to shut up and dribble. However, the question, in this moment from hell, is: Will the players and fans agree?
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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