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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Ecuador is currently in a period characterised by immense class tensions—the ruling class’ brutal project of neoliberalism is making life unbearable for the people. This has significantly increased the electoral appeal of the socialist presidential candidate Andrés Arauz.
In Honduras, efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones, that violate national sovereignty and threaten mass displacement, have recently emerged anew.
Biden gives every sign of repeating Trump’s policies that worsened income and wealth inequalities. In so doing, he prepares the way for the next Trump. Can the progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party reconstruct US politics as a class politics once again?
India and South Africa have called upon the WTO to grant a waiver to patent laws allowing countries to produce generic versions of any coronavirus vaccines and Covid-19 treatments. This would benefit not just the poor countries, but the rich ones too.
Even during the pandemic, the capitalist ruling class have ensured trillions in corporate bailout funds from the state, while workers and the poor have borne the brunt of the economic and health impacts of the crisis.
Education is a human right, legally guaranteed in India for all children without any discrimination. Shockingly, Covid-19 has adversely impacted the education of 290 million children.
The pandemic has unravelled India’s broken health care system and we must implement urgent reforms to fix it.
The creation of an exclusive, State-driven, contact tracing enhancer for smartphone users in India during Covid times has multiple faults. The primary one is that there is considerable mystery about where the data is being stored and to what extent it is protected.
The preliminary results from a study carried out by Right to Food Campaign and Center for Equity Studies in 11 states show that the situation of hunger is quite serious.
Beijing’s strong statement supporting the Palestinian cause comes at a time when the narrative in India, scripted by the pro-US, pro-Israeli lobbyists in the media, has crystallised that Palestine cause is dead and India must ‘move on’.
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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