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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
An analysis of the recent UP panchayat election results and 2017 election results indicates that it is possible for a SP-led Opposition alliance to defeat the BJP in the coming UP assembly elections, even without the support of the BSP.
It is based on three giant myths: Tax cuts for corporations and the rich create more and better jobs; Tax cuts for big corporations and the rich spur economic growth; Deregulation spurs economic growth. It is time to debunk them, once and for all.
The lesson of every struggle against oppression has been that relying upon an elite few to obtain powerful positions has never won fundamental change for the vast majority of people; they have only been won when ordinary people have united to challenge the elite and the divisive system.
An excerpt from historian Upinder Singh’s ‘Ashoka and Gandhi’, from ‘The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi’.
An interview with Christine Pic-Gillard, author of a new biographical and historical study of the Liberator, that goes beyond the myths about Bolívar to examine the reasons why he remains so influential.
Celebrating the contributions of Sunderlal Bahuguna of Uttarakhand, HS Doreswamy of Karnataka and KM Natarajan of Tamil Nadu.
A two part article. The author finds that no film comes so close to the truth of what is really happening in our society today.
Excerpts from ‘Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems’ by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
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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