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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
What is it about that photograph of the Carina Nebula, taken by the James Webb Telescope, that is so intriguing? We are looking at a nursery of stars, many far bigger than our own sun. And we are also looking back in time.
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
Thousands of Dalit people funded a symbolic gesture of gifting the Indian parliament a 10-tonne coin calling for the realisation of Ambedkar’s dream of untouchability-free India. They were stopped at Haryana’s borders.
Instead of reaping its demographic dividend, India is staring at three categories of joblessness.
Taking apart old electronics means battling suffocating heat and hazardous chemicals with little protection.
Neo-liberalism ends up getting enmeshed in stagnation and mass unemployment from which there is no exit. Because of this dead-end, it imposes a neo-fascist political regime upon the country. Overthrowing it is a difficult task; it can be accomplished only by the widest mobilisation of the working people.
Over the past three days, relentless Israeli airstrikes killed at least 45 Palestinians, including 16 children, and caused extensive devastation; Also: Events continue to demonstrate that Palestine cannot be made a marginal issue, however much Israel and the USA try.
Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries.
The recent exit of portfolio capital from emerging markets exposes the vulnerabilities of the cheap money policies followed by developed countries.
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to the poisonous politics, sometimes with fascist elements, that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge.
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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