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In late October, rumours about mass infections of COVID-19 led to workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou jumping over factory walls to escape and head home. Eli Friedman talks about the history of Foxconn’s treatment of workers in China, and says that the exodus is a form of collective action in the absence of independent unions.
Indorca is a factory without bosses in the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. Indorca’s workers carried out a heroic three-year struggle to gain control of the factory after the former owner brought it to a halt. In this interview, Indorca workers talk about their struggle.
Joao Pedro Stedile of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) talks about the implications of Lula’s victory for Brazil and the world, and the challenges he will have to surpass in order to fulfill his election promises.
After the midterm elections in the US, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.
Lula’s historic victory, unthinkable just two years ago, couldn’t have happened without millions of people fighting for it. As Bolsonaro supporters refuse to accept the results, the mobilisation of the masses will be key to securing democracy.
The imperialist powers rush towards the abyss. There are no proposals before the Sharm el-Sheikh summit to change direction. On the contrary, the completely inadequate decisions from previous world climate conferences have been largely abandoned since they were adopted.
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Aruna Asaf Ali were two prominent women in the freedom struggle who were near contemporaries. Examining their lives together uncovers an essential unity in their vision, which may not have been realized during their life-time but serves as an inspiration today.
For the first time in five years, tensions in the Korean peninsula are escalating. This comes in the context of a U.S. military buildup in the Pacific, driven by greater capitalist competition between the United States and China.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians marched in Sao Paulo Saturday in a final show of support for former president Lula da Silva before Sunday’s election. Also: It’s official: Lula has won. He has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the next president of Brazil.
Four billion people — almost two thirds of the world’s population — experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.
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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