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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Of Patel’s numerous contributions to India’s freedom struggle, it is Patel as a Sardar (leader) of the kisans which seems most relevant to us today when, for more than a year now, peasants in northern India have sustained a satyagraha against the Narendra Modi government.
In the background of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the farmers’ umbrella body announces that it would observe ‘Shaheed Kisan Diwas’ on Oct 12, Rail Roko on Oct 18 and Lucknow Mahapanchayat on Oct 26.
The entire exercise seems to be motivated by the desire to clean up the balance sheets of public sector banks so that these are dressed up for sale to private entities
The Pandora Papers show how several rich and powerful Indians form offshore trusts and companies by exploiting loopholes in our tax laws, park their money and buy assets in tax sanctuaries while the ordinary citizen shudders at the prospect of missing the deadline for filing tax returns.
Invoking ‘merit’ to deny affirmative action has a long history in India. But it is not supported by any empirical evidence.
It underlines their vicious Islamophobia, investment in controlling female sexuality, and a preference for religious segregation.
WikiLeaks was founded by Australian publisher Julian Assange 15 years ago, on October 4, 2006. In the years since, it has become synonymous with the courageous exposure of government and corporate crimes, as well as the ferocious attempts of the ruling elites to suppress independent journalism.
In June 2021, three activists were charged with criminal trespass before a London court. They had peacefully climbed up the scaffolding of the UK Houses of Parliament to hang a ten-metre tall letter – calling for honest acknowledgement of the harm and human cost of slavery and colonialism. You can arrest activists, but you cannot arrest the truth.
While the battle of the American Indian Movement against injustice and disenfranchisement is far from over, the Hopi prophecy still rings true: “We’re growing and we’re coming back… it’s the spirit of resistance that continues.”
Recently, speaking at the United Nations, President Joe Biden said that “for the first time in 20 years, the United States is not at war.” His statement was a damnable lie; the US continues to engage in some form of military action in a shocking number of countries, including Afghanistan.
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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