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The Alliance of Sahel States is presently at the forefront of Africa’s struggle against imperialism. What began as a national liberation struggle in each member state has rapidly consolidated into a Pan-African union for the complete emancipation of Africa.
In West Africa, several new governments have formed on the basis of political and economic sovereignty, rejecting the neo-colonial domination that has reigned on the continent since the mid-20th century. A lookback to the case of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, to understand some of the ways U.S. imperialism may potentially respond to these developments.
Education subsidy funding changes has sparked mass protests in Paraguay. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table.
Experimental writer and columnist Luis Britto Garcia is one of Venezuela’s best-known and most respected intellectuals. In this interview, he talks about fascism and corruption, as well as his hopes for a Chavista victory in the upcoming July 28 presidential elections.
Beyers Naudé was an outspoken Christian minister in South Africa, Shridharpant Tilak was an anti-caste activist in Maharashtra. In this current moment, when hate and bigotry of all forms seem to be on the rise across the world, their examples are worth revisiting today.
In a statement marking one year of what it calls “genocidal violence” in Manipur, the civil rights network Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) has claimed that the whole “conflict” is premised on the fact that the state is rich in natural resources.
The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, introduces us to four pillars for whom the 2024–25 interim budget is designed: the poor, women, youth and farmers. However, the budgetary allocations do not reflect this commitment. Comments on the Interim Budget by several authors.
Last year, 2023, marked the 125th birth anniversary of epoch-defining German playwright and practitioner Bertolt Brecht. His words carry a sense of immediacy for us, so striking are the parallels between Nazi Germany and present-day India.
“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
The general strike against the austerity measures and the Omnibus Law was strongly felt throughout Argentina yesterday. Although the mobilization had its epicenter in the capital, in the main cities of the interior, there were massive protests as well. A million and a half people filled the streets of the country.
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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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