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Humans evolved in Africa. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by the ocean – so how did primates get there?
The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.
Digital capitalism has accelerated the precarisation of work, eroded worker’s rights, expanded previous forms of exploitation and developed new ways of surveilling and controlling workers.
We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.
Coercive measures to control population will have several adverse effects. Amartya Sen, the renowned economist, recently talked about population well-being and stated that cooperation can provide something that coercion can’t provide.
Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism provides the key to understanding the environmental catastrophe we’re witnessing, and to gaining a clearer picture of what’s needed to repair our damaged relationship with the Earth.
The draft Bill will impact most adversely women across communities and classes, depriving them of their rights and rendering them even more vulnerable to ill health, social stigma and violence.
From the recently released Oxfam report: “The Hunger Virus Multiplies: Deadly Recipe of Conflict, Covid-19, and Climate Accelerate World Hunger”. Plus an extract from the latest annual UN report – “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”.
Population growth is already slowing down across faiths. The Bill only serves to foster division. Plus extracts from: “… UP … 50% of party MLAs have more than two children” and “MP: 39 % of BJP MLAs … Including 13 Ministers, Have Three and Above Children, Shows Data”.
With the expanded unemployment rate at 43.2%, its highest level ever, it would be foolish to label everyone who participated in the “Free Zuma” protests and took food from major supermarkets as “irrational and criminal”.
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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