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Collectively, we need to imagine a world in which we as Americans are no longer the foremost merchants of death, in which we don’t imagine ourselves as the eternal global police force, in which we don’t spend as much on our military as the next 10 countries combined.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Even though Marx did not write a great deal on gender, and did not develop a systematic theory of gender and the family, it was, for him, an essential category for understanding the division of labor, production, and society in general.
Capital’s absolute disregard for life once again surfaces in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, where 52 workers have been burnt to death on 9 July 2021, after they were denied exit when fire broke out in the food-processing factory which had almost no fire-safety mechanisms installed.
Noam Chomsky talks about why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them.
Not long ago pundits eulogized the death of Latin America’s “Pink Tide,” which had ripped the continent out of the once-sturdy hands of U.S. imperialism. But victory appears to be sprouting from the freshly plowed fields of defeat; the entire hemisphere is rising up once again.
The lesson of every struggle against oppression has been that relying upon an elite few to obtain powerful positions has never won fundamental change for the vast majority of people; they have only been won when ordinary people have united to challenge the elite and the divisive system.
As important as what they are fighting for, is how they have chosen to fight. Plus: Even after braving police action, concrete barriers, iron spikes, suspension of water and electricity, what makes the protesting farmers stay on?
The struggle, which began in rejection of a neoliberal tax reform bill, has transformed into a social uprising in Colombia demanding structural changes and an end to policies that deepen inequality and deprive the majority of the population of basic rights. Mothers are in the frontlines of the struggle.
Long working hours kill more than 700,000 people per year, even as millions are unable to find enough work to survive. The irrationality of capitalism has a human price.
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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