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In a dramatic run-off election in Chile between a hard-right open admirer of Pinochet named Antonio Kast and a 35-year old leftist and veteran of a decade of protest actions against the government, Gabriel Boric, the socialist candidate has won with a 12% margin of victory.
Carlos Caszely is the most popular and beloved player in the history of Chile. But his greatest achievement is this: in an official ceremony inside the palace, in the vigor of killings and shootings of opponents, Carlos Caszely refused to shake hands with dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Today’s centralised policies are pushing the marginalised communities further to the margins, squeezing all options for the poor but to take to the streets – says the activist.
The People’s Commission on the Public Sector and Public Services has emphasised that the public sector was created as an essential instrument for achieving a welfare State in India in consonance with the vision articulated in the directive principles of state policy laid down in the Constitution.
In a first, the entrepreneurs of the micro medium and small enterprises (MSME) went on a one-day strike across the country on Monday, in protest against the policies of the Union government that have affected the sector.
Press Release and Statement on the ‘Dharma Sansad’ organized in Haridwar from Dec 17 to 19 wherein several religious leaders and those associated with Hindutva extremist organisations gave an open call for Hindus to arm themselves and eliminate Muslims from the country.
Expressing shock and concern over the ongoing police repression on the peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district who for 17 years have used the most democratic means to resist the forceful acquisition of land for the POSCO project.
In 1949, the Constituent Assembly, and especially Dr B.R. Ambedkar, expressed grave apprehensions that the EC’s independence could be compromised by the appointment of a person who is likely to be under the executive’s thumb.
The gross abuse of the tool of ‘interview’ to deliberately deny entry to aspirants from marginalised sections in educational institutions and public sector employment on the pretext that they lack even minimum merit is not a new phenomenon, it has been blatantly used for decades.
The deliberate policy of big pharma and rich countries to leave large populations in poorer countries unvaccinated could plunge the world into another downturn.
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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