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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.
A new political party in Germany has been launched in Germany. It aims to draw a clear line between Berlin’s belligerence towards Russia and how the weight of that stance falls most heavily on the German working class through deindustrialization and austerity.
‘Lenin led to Stalin’ is not even given the status of a historical controversy in schools and colleges. It is accepted as fact. This belief is destroyed by a document known as Lenin’s Testament. The Testament was dictated by Lenin as he lay dying in Gorky.
The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains.
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.
In a recent article, Joshua Rahtz has expressed optimism about the new outfit in Germany, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – for Reason and Justice (BSW). A closer look at the character of the BSW. How radical are its policies?
Looking for something positive to celebrate on New Year’s Eve? Here are ten inspiring victories of 2023.
Over the past several weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been getting a taste of what it’s like to operate a business in a part of the world where unions still have formidable power.
Argentina’s largest trade union confederation (CGT) has warned that it will not accept any rollback of rights or delays in bargaining negotiations. The union also rejected Milei’s threats concerning the paralysis of public works and the privatization of the railways and Aerolíneas Argentinas.
The architect of the Indian constitution had to wait for 75 years after independence for a statue to be erected in his honour. All this while, a taller statue of Manu – whose teachings are against the basic values of the constitution – was unveiled on the premises of the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan high court way back in 1989.
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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