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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The first stage of this struggle has, no doubt, been won. But a prolonged struggle is required for getting proper prices for the crops and for securing the right to food for the working masses through PDS. This struggle now demands a higher and long-lasting unity.
The climbdown by the Modi government in the face of the incredible resoluteness shown by the agitating peasants is a setback for neoliberalism, since corporate ascendancy over the agricultural sector is a crucial part of the neo-liberal agenda the farm laws were seeking to promote.
Why do ideas of equality, reason and freedom scare some people? The answer lies in the simple fact that these ideas rock the boat for the castes and classes who rule.
Allowing new variants to emerge and spread, 13 months into the vaccine era, is a policy choice by the rich world.
As rich countries hoard doses and Big Pharma refuses to share the knowledge required to ramp up manufacturing, Cuba’s public biotech sector could play a key role in defeating vaccine apartheid.
Each time, the citizens were expected to endure ‘momentary hardships’, purportedly to achieve what was said to be a ‘noble goal’.
The mom-and-pop stores, known as ‘kiranas’, can order goods on JioMart Partner with deliveries promised within 24 hours. That means salesmen representing consumer giants face an existential threat to their business.
The Indian Constitution guarantees equality under Article 14. But when we examine the domestic sphere under the matrimonial laws, since men and women within the marriage are not equal, the same yardstick of equality cannot be applied. Equality can only be between equals.
… and that’s why the market can’t solve the climate crisis
To Nehru, disarmament in general, and the elimination of nuclear weapons in particular, were integral to the doctrine of non-alignment.
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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