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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The 94-year-old environmentalist succumbed to COVID-19 on May 21, 2021, at AIIMS in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. With his demise, India has lost one of the finest environmentalists and social workers, who had also been a part of India’s freedom movement.
Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.
Narendra Modi has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he now has to negotiate.
On May 15-16, the people of Chile voted to elect members to a new Constituent Assembly that would draft a new Constitution to replace the Pinochet era neoliberal Constitution. Progressive forces won more than two-thirds of the seats, in a stunning win. Plus: Chile: Two Women Symbolise Historical Progressive Victory.
Mass demonstrations in Colombia continue for the third straight week. After defeating the unpopular tax reform that sparked the movement, protesters push new demands. Plus, an article on why the government imposed the tax package and its impact on the people that led to the uprising.
For the first time in many years, the Palestinian people are united, from Jerusalem Al Quds, to Gaza and the West Bank, to the Palestinian communities, towns and villages inside historic Palestine – today’s Israel. Plus – an Article on the Palestinian Nakba of 1947-9.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel has been made possible by Israel’s utility to US imperialism. Plus: Speech by Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of US Congress, about the humanity of Palestinians and the need to dismantle Israeli apartheid.
The reason for the Indian govt’s abysmal failure to tackle the second Covid wave lies in the fact that the Indian Republic – built as it is on the edifice of the British colonial state – is designed to work only on behalf of a tiny minority of Indians, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves.
Even the global health crisis that unfolded in the past year has not deterred the current government from executing its plans for ‘ease of doing business’.
Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. And, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the world-famous Doomsday Clock, that measures humanity’s nearness to utter annihilation, at 100 seconds to midnight.
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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