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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
Evidence suggests that the world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware has been misused and greater accountability and oversight is needed. Also – Edward Snowden Calls for a Global Moratorium on Spyware Trade.
“True deaths are likely to be in the several millions, not hundreds of thousands, making this arguably India’s worst human tragedy,” said its authors, one of whom is a former chief economic adviser to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Starting Thursday, about 200 protestors will participate in the farmers’ parliament at Jantar Mantar, which will take place on each working day of the Parliament until the ongoing Monsoon Session ends. Also – Farmers’ tractor marches in UP.
The UN Food Systems Summit, including a ‘pre-summit’, is facilitating global corporatisation of agriculture. To mobilise against it, more than 300 global organisations of small-scale food producers, researchers and indigenous peoples are organising a protest pre-summit.
On July 19, 1969, 14 major banks were nationalised in the country. Today, after 52 years there is talk again of privatising the nationalised banks, which naturally raises the question: why were banks nationalised at all?
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
It cannot be overemphasised that by not criminalising marital rape, the State effectively endorses the view that forced conjugal relations are acceptable. It also implies that women lose their bodily autonomy when they enter into a marriage.
For Stan’s thousands of admirers, the challenge is clearly to join the Adivasi people in their fight to be treated as equal human beings and also upholding their traditions, far superior to those of the ‘civilised’.
Written on hearing about Father Stan Swamy’s death in custody.
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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