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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Did Karl Marx have a theory of race and capitalism? Not exactly, but he theorized on these issues for over four decades and much of what he wrote still speaks to us today. At a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat, these writings are worth revisiting.
Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s ‘Places Of Mind: A Life Of Edward Said’. An attempt to grapple with the complexity and contradictory character of Said, who was at once engaging, paradoxical, theatrical, seductive, critical, provocative, who could be on occasion defensive and even enraged.
The anti–Vietnam War movement cut across the civilian-military divide, with active-duty soldiers abroad and stateside defying their commanders and refusing to fight. Those soldiers played a key role in bringing the brutal war to an end.
Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what it is supposed to be.
Finally, the Nepali parliament has ratified the USD 500 million grant deal with US agency Millennium Challenge Corporation. This was preceded by massive protests by political parties that are opposing the government’s deal, viewing it as a threat to Nepal’s sovereignty.
Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old student, lived an ordinary life in the south Karnataka town of Mandya before an extraordinary moment of courage and resistance brought her national fame and converted her moment of bravery into an iconic image. She talks about her hijab, her values and everyone’s freedom to choose in this interview.
Following the collapse of the ruling coalition in Portugal, in the subsequent national election held on 30 January, the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and Left Bloc (BE) lost half their elected positions, while the Socialist Party (PS) gained an absolute majority.
Majoritarianism does not leave the majority untouched.
Fifth and last part of a long article that discusses how the commons in England were gradually driven out of existence, the small farms engrossed, the land enclosed, and the commoners forcibly removed. This part discusses the mass resistance to privatization and dispossession.
On a day that the United States recorded 2,997 COVID-19 deaths, the New York Times published an op-ed by two former Biden administration advisers calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives a “mistake” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”
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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