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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
An interview with the former president of Bolivia about a range of subjects — including the British-backed coup of 2019, Julian Assange, NATO and transnational corporations — at Morales’ house deep in the Amazon rainforest.
George Floyd was murdered two years ago today. It set off a massive uprising that changed a generation. While the movement didn’t stop the police killing of Black people, a whole generation was deeply changed by the protests.
Dakshayani Velayudhan was the only dalit woman in the Indian Constituent Assembly. In this interview, her daughter and policy analyst, Meera Velayudhan remembers her mother and the varied ways in which she shaped the history of not just her community but also the nation.
The lifting of economic sanctions by ECOWAS against Mali is an indication that resistance of the country’s authorities and people has proven to be effective. Also: The Sudanese revolution continues, despite the fierce repression.
The national strike in Ecuador, which ended on Thursday, June 30, was a show of the strength, organization and expression of the different progressive social forces in Ecuador. The struggle for the rights of peoples and nationalities in the country will continue in the future too.
In the June parliamentary elections, while the right-of-center government of President Macron’s Together! bloc failed to win a majority in the National Assembly, winning 245 of 577 seats, a leftwing coalition, NUPES, took a surprising second place, with 131 seats.
It was a sad day for the Indian Republic as His Highness the President of India, Guardian of democratic-secular Indian Republic, not only glorified but also idolized Gita Press which publishes literature that propagates Sati and beating of women.
In the wake of the highly expected overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’, activists demonstrated their contempt in towns and cities across the country for the Supreme Court and its highly politicized conservative agenda in a National Day of Defiance.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple – Stucke explains why the current proposals to regulate the massive power of these four companies fall short of what’s needed to deal with the threat they pose not only to our individual wellbeing, but to the whole economy — and to democracy itself.
It is a strange and interesting story how the longstanding and ultimately two-way relationship between revolutionary Venezuelan politician Hugo Chávez and Hungarian intellectual István Mészáros came to exist.
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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