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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A review of John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century. This “powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people,” argues that “the huge low wage proletariat that has emerged in the last 30 years is the key to the profits of imperialism.”
Book Review of ‘Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population’, by Matthew Connelly, Harvard University Press: A story of how some people have tried to control others ruthlessly and manipulatively, without having to answer to anyone, in ways that are shocking.
A new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves wellbeing and productivity; In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work.
In this third and final part on the Che Guevara Commune of Venezuela, a look at the Commune’s efforts to provide social assistance to the community at a time when US imposed sanctions are interfering with educational and health services in the country.
Though Ishrat Afreen remains forgotten and neglected in her own country, she is an institution unto herself.
Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.
On 3 December, a tribunal revoked the sole rights granted by the government to Pepsico over a potato used to make its best-selling Lays brand of chips. But while the order delighted farmers, it did not reflect India’s unique law that allows farmers to trade in even those seeds protected as intellectual property.
Sweeping political and administrative changes pushed unilaterally by Modi government in the region, coupled with strong-armed policing tactics, have continued to deepen anger, fuelling a furious blowback in the region this year.
2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers partaking in union votes and strike actions.
Environmental activists and scholars talk about the movements, triumphs and trends they’re most heartened by this year.
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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