India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
We are witnessing the transformation of the regime of democracy, that had brought us the promise of liberté, egalité, fraternité political, social and economic, to its very opposite: the highest concentration of economic, political and therefore social powers ever in history.
Mining companies stand to benefit from one of the amendments being pushed through without proper public consultation.
Big business and Big Pharma dominate our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit.
Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
It is incumbent upon the state to act and remedy the pernicious influence of caste by eradicating its hierarchies and doing so requires looking at reservation as a component of political equality.
Curtailment of health services has caused a fall in immunisations, maternal health interventions and treatments of conditions such as kidney failure and cancer; while shutdown of anganwadis is adversely affecting malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers.
While all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown, the job losses for the lowest-ranked castes are greater by factor of three; the loss of income and livelihoods has pushed India’s marginalised groups into further indebtedness.
The dropping of Question Hour in Parliament, which helps the government feel the nation’s pulse, goes against the grain of democracy.
The Centre denying states their promised dues, not only violates an Act of Parliament but also defies economic logic. Kerala is taking the lead in mobilising states to oppose the Centre’s proposal, which is going to severely impact the finances of states.
In a bid to manage the fiscal deficit, the Centre significantly reduced its public expenditure. However, this contracted aggregate demand at a time when it actually needed a boost.
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.
Address: D-15, Ganesh Prasad, Naushir Bharucha Marg, Mumbai- 400007.
Help us increase our readership.
If you are enjoying reading Janata Weekly,
DO FORWARD THE WEEKLY MAIL to your mailing list and
invite people to subscribe for FREE!