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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
10 reasons why nuclear power is still no solution for climate change; Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping.
James Baldwin’s thoughts on his nephew’s future (in the USA)—in a country with a terrible history of racism— first appeared in The Progressive magazine in 1962. Over 50 years later his words are, sadly, more relevant than ever.
With its development of five COVID-19 vaccines and the promise of sharing know-how with developing countries, Cuba has remained faithful to Che Guevara’s values of international solidarity and people-oriented medicine.
On the birth anniversary of Che Guevara, a recollection of the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico.
Siddalingaiah, who passed away on June 11, was not only a poet, but also an activist and public intellectual all his life. A key figure in the Dalit movement of the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the co-founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti in Karnataka.
With FIRs and persistent death threats from Hindutva forces, Husain was forced into self-exile. He died on June 9, 2011 at the age of 95, yearning to return to his country.
“This is beating the pen with the hammer, a death knell for the right to freedom of expression of Gujarati writers” – says the statement.
Keeping Count; Lost Home.
The planet has become a toxic soup of tested, untested, and inadequately tested chemicals that includes deadly toxins. Far and away, it exceeds global warming emissions. Despite it being such a pressing issue, it has not been publicly recognized as such.
The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
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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