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A meeting of a committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China recently held a discussion on “common prosperity”, namely how to produce growth with equity. The focus of the discussion was on the need to generate welfare for all citizens.
The rise of industrial capitalism was accompanied by a complex transformation of rural society wherein most people were separated from the land, and land was concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority. It happened in different ways and at different times in different parts of the world, and is still going on today.
Excerpts from a transcript of a talk given by Prof. Purushottam Agarwal on 28 Feb 2009 at “Koi Sunta Hai – A Festival of Kabir in Bengaluru”, organized by the Kabir Project: “Over the last 30 years, my engagement with Kabir, in a very deep sense, has turned into a very personal experience.”
In the new student movements taking place in South Africa, the legacy of Steve Biko, who was murdered by the apartheid regime on 12 September 1977, have become important again. A look at the life of Steve Biko.
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. When I think of political prisoners, and when I think of those who have committed themselves to Black Liberation, I always think of Assata Shakur.
Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.
Garam Hawa, based on a short story by the renowned modernist Urdu writer, Ismat Chugtai, is, by common consent, one of the more creative and insightful denunciations on celluloid of the tragedy of Partition, engineered by the watchful, malevolent-midwife eyes of the departing British.
Science can observe various phases of fetal development but cannot determine when human life begins.
Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait says “Allahu Akbar”, crowd responded with “Har Har Mahadev” as sign of unity.
The average outstanding loan per household was at Rs 74,121 in 2018-19 compared with Rs 47,000 in 2012-2013, the survey noted.
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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