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A new study finds that we are methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system – soil, which is the life source for 95% of the foods we eat 365 days per year. Plus: “Study Says 64% of World’s Farmland at Risk of Pesticide Pollution”.
The farming community along with common citizens would hoist black flags on their homes, tractors and vehicles and burn the effigy of PM Modi in villages, farmer leaders said.
In a society that routinely visits abuse and punishment on those who are deemed low, would the refusal of dignity at the moment of one’s passing on leave a scar on the social conscience?
From a people’s campaign on ‘No Vote To BJP’ to a music video by a galaxy of artists against the party’s ‘ideology of hatred’, the civil society in Bengal had a powerful impact in the recent polls.
Narwal sahib deserved to live. To see his daughter free. Not on bail. Free. With apologies from the Indian state. Plus: “The Law Sees ‘Terror’ in Blocked Road, Not Patients Gasping for Oxygen”.
19-year-old Russian activist Olga Misik – who two years ago was arrested for reading aloud her country’s constitution to the police at a pro-democracy rally – was arrested once again for ‘vandalism’. She gave a blistering statement to the court. “With such children, Russia does have a future!”
Even at the very peak of Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity, the mass protests that King led and inspired “didn’t come anywhere close” to the massive racial justice protests that have erupted over this past year, says Noam Chomsky.
While the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, China is becoming a major supplier of covid vaccines to the developing countries following WHO’s approval to its vaccine Sinopharm; meanwhile, Modi is not willing to allow other companies to make Covishield and Covaxin – to allow their manufacturers monopoly profits.
Parul Khakkar poured out her distress in a powerful 14-line poem. Now, even as she is praised by writers and people at large for voicing the nation’s suffering, she is a target for the ruling party’s troll army.
The, Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and RSS wanted the state to host a ‘bhavya’ Mahakumbh with minimal COVID-19 restrictions in place, but Chief Minister Rawat insisted on a symbolic festival, and so he was fired overnight in March 2021.
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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