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Leaders of over a dozen countries in the region have condemned the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the Summit; Also – Mexico Leads in Opposing the Cuba Blockade and US Imperialism.
Biden has reversed Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US forces from Somalia and will redeploy Special Operations Forces. It is just the latest move in a long history of destructive US-UK meddling in the Horn of Africa.
Slovenia’s parliamentary elections saw the defeat of the far-right and a surprise victory for Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement, which was set up less than a year ago by green and liberal forces. A discussion on the significance of the election result with Miha Kordiš from the left party, Levica.
The surging cost of living and the unavailability of basic goods are triggering mass protests around the world, including the Middle East and North Africa.
Rarely in Australian history has a governing party suffered such loss. It was part of a “teal” electoral tsunami, with several non-career parliamentarians entering parliament.
Meet some of the people of South Africa who have held the steps of the apex court of the country for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
This article explores the relationship between caste and gender, focusing on what is possibly the central factor for the subordination of the upper caste woman: the need for effective sexual control over such women to maintain not only patrilineal succession but also caste purity.
When used in the diaspora, ‘Kala Pani’ refers to the large-scale migration out of India in the 1830s when hundreds of thousands of Indians left the subcontinent to work in the sugar colonies as indentured labourers, or ‘bound coolies’.
Their sheer sense of individualism and power through spirituality made the rise of women’s voices prominent in Bhakti tradition. We can trace the elements of feminism through their songs, poems, and ways of life. On some of the important women saints of the Bhakti tradition who became the primitive voices of the rise of feminism in India.
A report has found that rising prices of foodgrains are not because of demand and supply imbalance, but because of excessive speculation by investment firms and funds in the commodities markets. Another article says: Global food giants like Cargill have made a killing due to the rising food prices.
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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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