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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Many of Iran’s most vocal feminists are languishing in prison. Nevertheless, women in Iran continue their fight. Through their fight, women in Iran are building solidarity that transcends national, class, racial and religious lines.
U.S.-supplied weaponry has fuelled conflicts, enabled human-rights violations, and helped destabilize not just individual countries but entire regions.
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.
In late October, rumours about mass infections of COVID-19 led to workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou jumping over factory walls to escape and head home. Eli Friedman talks about the history of Foxconn’s treatment of workers in China, and says that the exodus is a form of collective action in the absence of independent unions.
The perilous heating of this planet is the topic that will, sooner or later, leave all others in the dust. New cold wars and hot wars will make no sense whatsoever in such a future. Either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust!
Remembering the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August.
The first English translation of this interview. Thomas Sankara (1949-1987), who is sometimes referred to as the “African Che Guevara,” was the socialist leader of the Burkinabé Revolution from 1983 until his assassination in 1987.
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.
If the so-called ‘educated’, urban, modern world is to have any hope of making peace with the earth, it has to listen to the cosmologies and ways of life of indigenous cultures. It has to at least respect, if not re-learn, how to view itself as a part of nature.
The socio-legal system is currently designed to fail victims of domestic abuse, thanks to dilution of laws like section 498A IPC, patriarchal and misogynistic application of the law, judicial denial of the seriousness of domestic violence, crimes against women, and low employment among women.
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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