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A number of political parties, chiefs of Hindu mutts and Shaivite organisations have welcomed the appointments, but right-wing groups have unleashed a hate campaign against the government and the newly-appointed priests.
A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.
Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”
Gail Omvedt’s life and work was oriented to emancipate Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, poor farming communities, religious minorities and women, who have experienced the consequences of India’s partial and distorted democracy.
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.
The Indian athletes at Tokyo gave it all they could but a familiar ugliness has surfaced after the event. Officials, politicians, and sponsors are jumping on to the bandwagon of the medallists, while some who failed face the wrath of officials.
There are crucial differences between the anti-colonial nationalism of the third world countries and European bourgeois nationalism. That is why the third world countries adopted a dirigeste capitalist development strategy, that insulated peasant agriculture from domestic and foreign capitalists. Neoliberalism is undermining this.
Despite the new labour reform codes covering gig workers and providing them social security benefits, the exploitation of food delivery executives, especially after the pandemic, continues. With the codes still not implemented, they stare at a dark future.
The University Grants Commission’s draft history syllabus has dropped books by well-known historians, such as DD Kosambi, R S Sharma, DN Jha and Irfan Habib. The objective seems to be to glorify mythology rather than history, as also deny any Dravidian links to Harappan culture.
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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