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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
India’s social sector expenditures are amongst the lowest among all major economies of the world. In this concluding part of our budget analysis of Union Budget 2021-22, we present proposals on how the Centre can more than double its social sector expenditures.
India’s top 1 percent in today’s “Billionaire Raj” have a similar share of the national income as the top 1 percent did under the British Raj. With Modi’s three farm laws, the “Billionaire Raj” is preparing to turn India back from a country of hunger to a country of famine.
The risks of private ownership and the advantages of public ownership make inducting foreign investment into and privatising insurance a completely irrational policy. Plus an extract from a pamphlet written in 2014 against privatisation of insurance.
Ninety-four years ago, on March 20, 1927, Babasaheb Ambedkar walked to the public water tank/pond – Chavdar tale – with fellow satyagrahis and drank water from a common property resource denied to the Dalit Untouchables.
If the institution cannot house a figure like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, then why does it exist?
Brief story of those workers in Paris who in 1871, to use Marx’s phrase, stormed the heavens. They gave to the world, for the first time, the “political form, at last, discovered under which to work out the economic emancipation of labour.”
On this day in 1871, the working class of Paris seized control of the capital and established the Commune. Though it ruled for just two months, it still stands as a vivid example of the kind of society workers themselves can create, according to their own vision of freedom and equality.
Mahapanchayats in Madhya Pradesh; Despite intense repression, Gujarat farmers form new organisation to oppose farm laws; Padyatras, rallies taking place across the country; Farmers and workers come together to oppose privatisation of public sector banks and insurance; and more.
Dr. Swaiman Singh, a cardiologist from the US, put his career on hold to come to Delhi border and provide free medical services to farmers protesting in India. He came down for a week last December, and has stayed on.
It is possible to arrest the price fall below the Statutory Minimum Purchase Price (SMPP) based on either MSP or cost of cultivation for the main farm commodities – if the government takes the steps proposed in this article. It wouldn’t even cost much.
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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