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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
September 19th was Paulo Freire’s birthday. He was a revolutionary whose passion for justice and resistance was matched by his hatred of neoliberal capitalism and loathing for authoritarians of all political stripes. Put simply, he was not merely a public intellectual but also a freedom fighter.
Communal gardens and farming enterprises are the beginning of sustainable food sovereignty in South Africa, but a basic income grant is essential to address hunger in the shorter term.
I am tired of being told that this world I was handed is irrevocably broken. I understand that the climate leaders from generations past are tired too, and that the decades of work have disheartened some. The youth climate movement deserves hope and optimism regardless.
Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”
On August 26, as a part of a new national strike, thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country in rejection of a new tax reform bill promoted by the national government and in support of the ten bills presented by different sectors last month.
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.
Chronicle of a woman’s life after her husband was arrested by Delhi Police.
Sahgal is referring to the struggle for freedom under Mahatma Gandhi. He brought together people in a way that cut across religion, region, class, gender. Bringing together this rich diversity into a strong political unity that overthrew the British Empire was an extraordinary achievement.
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
Article by Albert Einstein, the world-famous physicist, originally published in the inaugural issue of the renowned US socialist magazine, ‘Monthly Review’ (May 1949), in which he expresses his views on the subject of socialism.
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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