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The civil rights group has issued a solidarity statement with the struggle of the people of Mali Parbat opposing Hindalco mining. It says in the statement that the hill, “rich with bauxite, sacred to local tribes in Koraput district of Odisha, is facing threat of destruction” from the mining giant.
Workers of the Indian Telecommunication Industries Ltd. (ITI) have been on a sit-in protest outside the factory premises in Dooravani Nagar, Bangalore, since 1 December 2021 against their arbitrary termination from work following the formation of a union and demanding their basic rights.
Dr. King linked the struggles against poverty, racism and war into a program of action which the U.S. government feared. In 2023, we must study these developments to gain guidance and inspiration for the impending mass struggles ahead.
A 100 years ago, Keynes had felt a package of government spending cuts and tax increases would be disastrous. Even worse would be imposing austerity on debtor countries. His arguments were not heeded and fascism in Europe followed. Yet those in charge of global economic governance appear to have learnt nothing.
The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. government to attempts to restore democracy suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What it considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president!
The government’s plan amounts to bluster, for it will make paltry investment in lowering or ending greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial processes that use hydrogen.
The employment rate fell to 36% in 2022 from 43% in 2016. This was a 7% fall in the employment rate in a country that has the largest young population in the world. This employment rate is much lower than the world average of about 60%.
Several important datasets that help in formulating government policies have not been released for over two years.
Anuradha Bhasin’s new book, ‘A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370’, goes deep into the saga of a people betrayed and promises broken.
Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.
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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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