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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The great Afghan woman martyr, Meena (1956-1987) founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. We reproduce here a part of Meena’s poem which she wrote few months before her martyrdom.
Seventeen years after Indians won the Right to Information, the backlog of pending RTI appeals continues to grow in the face of understaffed and defunct information commissions, and attacks on RTI activists are becoming more brutal.
Higher education in India no longer guarantees decent work in a changing and shrinking job market, even as its investment in liberal values is being challenged. Given the policy reforms and technological upheavals also underway, our universities face an uncertain future under an uncaring state.
Women still face casual sexism, feel reluctant to report sexual harassment at the workplace and find it difficult to succeed within companies because of gender bias.
The 22 vows of Babasaheb can free the newly ordained Buddhists from the anti-human beliefs of Hinduism and bind them to the human beliefs of Buddhism. These vows are not anti-Hindu in any way but give guidelines for the followers of Buddhism which each religion gives.
Asked by an imaginary interlocutor (in Hind Swaraj) for historical evidence on what he called soul-force or truth-force, Gandhi replies that the continued existence of human life despite incessant wars was proof enough.
The government of Gustavo Petro will buy three million hectares from cattle ranchers with the aim of redistributing them to dispossessed peasants, fulfilling the first point of the peace agreement signed with the FARC.
When it comes to Western Sahara, the West’s collective silence can be called nothing but a double standard. An important reason is that many Western countries profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.
A critique of the extensive network of politicians, corporations and institutions that keep the military at the front and centre of Western politics.
We must follow the bright lights arrayed across the world as grassroots movements campaign for environmental sanity and seek to abolish war.
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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