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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On 1st May 1886, radical pamphlets appeared in America. One of the pamphlets famously declared, “Arouse ye toilers of America! Lay down your tools…one day of revolt, not of rest… a day on which to enjoy eight hours of work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will”. This struggle gave rise to the International Workers Day or May Day.
The headlong rush to list LIC shows shocking disregard for public interest while pandering to the whims of speculative “investors”. The IPO’s pricing indicates that it is perhaps India’s biggest-ever privatisation scandal.
Press Release, 28/04/2022: We would like to invite your attention to the untold miseries and sufferings of people in Dhinkia which has been targeted for an integrated steel plant by Sajan Jindal’s JSW a few years after POSCO was driven out of the same soil.
None of the Centre’s explanations for the coal and power shortages hit the mark. The government took no preventive steps though the severity of this crisis was long foretold. The real culprits are its notion of what constitutes power sector ‘reforms’ and lack of inter-ministerial coordination.
Memorandum submitted to the President of India in May 2013. The revolt of 1857 broke out on 10 May in Meerut. This year’s 10 May will be the 165th anniversary of the revolt. To mark the occasion, the Memorandum is released again with a hope that this demand will be addressed without further delay.
The IMF recently forecast a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. A recent paper argues that U.S. military spending, the scale of the United States in global consumption, the role of the Wall Street-Dollar-IMF regime, and other factors play a key role in this crisis.
While supporters argue that the IMF package will help boost foreign exchange reserves and benefit the economy, people from low-income groups say they believe that the package will create more hardships.
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s culpability can be said to lie in steering the country into the clutches of neo-liberalism, though it may not have had a choice.
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum. This article seeks to map the large areas of agreement between the two, and lists some of the main arguments for an ecosocialist degrowth.
Dear Stan, today, 26 April, is your earthly birthday! We are celebrating fond memories of you, thanking God for the gift of you to this earth and her people, and above all trying to see in what ways we can internalise and actualise the rich legacy we have inherited from you!
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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