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On January 10, all the major trade unions in France gave a joint call for protests against the proposals for pension reforms announced by the Macron-led government. Youth groups, including the Young Communist Movement of France, have also called for protests against the reforms.
Marx’s theory that capitalism created a “metabolic rift” between human society and nature has re-emerged as an indispensable tool for understanding the climate crisis we face today.
Timor-Leste represents a new case in the dawn of the twenty-first century on how the IMF imposed a top-down neoliberal macroeconomic infrastructure and reform project from scratch.
A recent report from Oxfam points the finger at the wealthiest individuals for causing climate change through their individual carbon footprints as well as their investments in polluting industries. But what is missing from this report is that the system of capitalism is the root cause.
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace Report 2022 reveals high levels of alienation and stress faced by workers; 120 million occupational accidents, of which 2.1 lakh are fatal accidents, occur annually at workplaces worldwide; Also: WHO-ILO Report: Work-related Causes Kill 2 Million People Globally Each Year.
Shelley was probably the greatest English Romantic poet. The critic Harold Bloom described him as “a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”. But he was much more than that: he was also a passionate revolutionary.
“Just living” is the whole point of doing politics.
If the five international media outlets, in a major about-face, now explicitly oppose the persecution of Assange, it is out of concern that a show trial of a journalist who exposed US war crimes will spark a major political crisis for the Biden administration.
There is an important problem with the claim that higher GDP growth itself leads to greater welfare for the people even if the tax-GDP ratio is small. The experience all over the world shows that building a welfare state requires a huge increase in fiscal effort.
Not only is the gig economy devastating its workers, but there are ongoing efforts to expand the model to nearly all American workplaces. It is estimated that 36 percent of the US workforce are gig, contract, freelance and temporary workers. And the numbers are only growing.
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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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