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The author is not referring to the war in Ukraine, but to the capitalist war on livable ecology. There’s no war and peace, no social justice, no democracy, no demilitarization, on a dead planet, whether it is frozen in nuclear winter or melted by climate change.
Despite the horrific bombing campaign against Yemeni civilians, Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations and war crimes have garnered nowhere near the level of coverage and sympathy that the mainstream Western media has rightfully given to Ukraine.
Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.
At a time when Hindu deities and traditions are being weaponised by the intertwined forces of Hindutva and caste oppression, these forms of Shiva offer us an alternative vision of peace and justice for all.
The Sahitya Akademi award winning Bengali novelist’s works have been translated into several languages including English, Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, French and Spanish.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an unprovoked and unjustified attack that will go down in history as one of the major war crimes of the 21st century, argues Noam Chomsky. But at the same time, it must not be forgotten that there would have been no basis for the present crisis if there had been no expansion of the NATO alliance following the end of the Cold War.
The social sector expenditures of the Modi Government are not just far lower than the developed countries, they are even lower than its peer countries. And as regards education, the Modi Government has cut the budget for school education by a huge 40% over the 9 budgets it has presented so far.
Under the distressing times of COVID-19, the Rajasthan Budget 2022-23 guarantees 100 days of employment for families in urban areas. However, the Central government has not paid heed to demands for such a scheme and has even reduced allocations for MGNREGA.
There is a common misconception that the term imperialism is no longer relevant now. The essence of the relationship of imperialism lies in the control over the world’s resources, including land-use, by the metropolitan powers. Neo-liberal globalisation has meant that control over these third world assets have been returned to metropolitan capital.
Gujarat in 2002 was already living in the post-truth era, much before the world started using this term. And Gujarat then was a sign of what India, as a whole, was to become.
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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