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A new president brings hope and the promise of change. On March 11, thirty-six-year-old Gabriel Boric—the youngest Chilean president ever to have been elected—took office in an environment of enormous expectation and almost revolutionary optimism.
Overall, the picture is bleak. Environment is given a few token sops, while in fact financial allocations continue to fuel an economy that is fundamentally unsustainable. The country’s natural resource base will continue to be devastated, especially by the massive increases in mega-infrastructure.
Rather than being a panacea for Indian agriculture, corporate food provision will likely accelerate many key elements of India’s agricultural crisis. It will produce a decline in land productivity, reduce food security, adversely affect price stability and will tend to negatively impact employment and credit relations.
On February 28, the Khartoum Coordination of the Resistance Committees proposed the “Charter for the Establishment of the People’s Authority”, setting forth a militant roadmap to democracy.
By modifying the form and shape of the tractor-trolley, the farmers and their allies created a symbol of the working class with no state control or sponsorship and no commodification by any private player.
Letter signed by some of the world’s leading intellectuals calling upon the Biden administration to immediately end its cruel and inhumane policies towards Afghanistan, lift sanctions, unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets, and increase humanitarian aid.
Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence”, is a detailed analysis of the politics of colonialism and the cruel absurdity of war, as well as a deep plunge into the human future, pulsating with complex sanity and more relevant than ever 50-plus years later.
Piloting a series of substantial policy changes a little more than one week into her mandate, Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro has already established herself as a firm Latin American leader. In the process, she has brought hope and happiness to the Honduran people.
Now that Chile is about to inaugurate a president who is a fierce champion of human rights, it is time to memorialize victims of the Pinochet dictatorship – maybe then Kast, an ultra-right admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, would have less support.
From the Philippines to Vietnam, Coyotepe to the Salt Pit, the United States has consistently used both darkness and invisible spaces for the same essential purpose: to suppress its enemies and display its power in ways that allow it to preserve an illusion of republican innocence before its people.
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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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