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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Why does the West, supposedly a global promoter of democracy, support Saudi Arabia, a monarchy? The answer lies in a historical process whereby Saudi Arabia was propped up by major powers as an outpost of imperialist interests and a bulwark against revolutionary ideologies.
One’s birthday cannot be ‘happy’ in prison; however, in wishing you – we celebrate your life, your mission and your message and above all, those whom you have so closely identified with all these years; so “Birthday Greetings to you, dear Fr. Stan!”
The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame on the states for shortages. Plus extracts from 3 articles: The Real Cost of Vaccinating Everyone; Serum Institute’s Vaccine Costliest in Global Market; State-Owned Vaccine Manufacturers Sit Idle.
The majority of the population faces a long and protracted conflict with the Tatmadaw. The coup and its subsequent repression have created a new sense of solidarity among the minorities, and is also uniting them with the working classes in the cities. Either they together build a new Myanmar; or the alternative is barbarism.
The most prominent independent elected socialist in the U.S., Kshama Sawant, recently announced, that she and other members Socialist Alternative would be joining the Democratic Socialists of America. This is the important backdrop to this interview.
A new alliance called the ‘Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations’ has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners.
Significant developments are underway in Turkey. Most ominously, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved toward the banning of one of the country’s main opposition parties, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The Hindu right has not been able to take over much of Tamil Nadu’s political space, due to the long-standing propaganda by parties such as the DMK against the caste-based discrimination within Hinduism, which also led to a positive representation of Islam and Muslims.
Capitalism breeds oppression. Capitalism atomises workers generally. Workplaces can make workers compete according to skills and results, but also by pitching workplace against workplace. This is one of the secrets allowing capitalists to undermine united working class resistance.
Remembering Friedrich Reck, who lived through the Nazi era and wrote, “A man must hate this Germany with all his heart if he really loves it.”
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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