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Social inequality, neo-colonial war, the growth of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant hysteria, the debasement of official politics and the media—there is “a world of meaning … in the sad circumstances” (Debs) of these two contrasting episodes.
Education through rewritten textbooks, proscription of materials and textualised hate towards the Jews was central to the Nazi plot and storyline. The war for global domination and extermination began, as it were, in curricular battles.
A revolution from above has seized China’s financial sector, resulting in a number of purges, ruthless rectification of the most dubious segments of capital markets, and – most significantly – shifting operational leadership over the financial landscape from government bodies to the CCP’s Central Committee.
Despite Tamil Nadu’s history of anti-caste movements, continued reports on the denial of temple entry to Dalits indicate that the space has to come under greater legal and public scrutiny. The state must ensure that it follows the Constitution, not caste dictates.
In 1979, Rodney spoke at symposium at the University of California. Rodney’s talk built on his classic study ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’, musing on how theories of underdevelopment had developed, as it were, over the recent past. A transcript of his talk.
American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines; The Death Penalty for Homelessness; Baskets and Tents.
In 2017, the Cuban government approved the ‘State Plan to Confront Climate Change’, known in Cuba as ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, ‘Tarea Vida’ is the world’s only truly long-term state plan to address climate change.
“Challenge the sexual division of labor, the naturalization of women’s work in the domestic sphere, and the valorization of productive work over reproductive work,” is the slogan of the World March of Women.
What exactly was “Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation”? Here, Angus argues that Marx thought “primitive accumulation” was a misleading and erroneous concept. Understanding what he actually wrote shines light on two essential Marxist concepts: exploitation and expropriation.
This article investigates three decades of the telecom miracle and asks a larger question: What do we learn regarding the nature of big capital from the extraordinary success of the telecom industry in India?
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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