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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Work demand in the rural jobs guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) has almost reached 2021 level by July this year. Remember: 2021 was the second year of the pandemic which saw a jump in demand after the deadly second wave of Covid. But the government continues to under-fund the scheme.
It is unfortunate that the Government of India has once again lied on the deaths in sewer and septic tanks. How can the government claim that there is no manual scavenging when people continue to die in sewer and septic tanks?
Per Kosambi, all useful science was applied science, and he recognised the ubiquitous military application of nuclear energy as an abuse — of both knowledge and power.
“Burkina Faso’s New President Condemns Imperialism, Quotes Che Guevara, Allies with Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba”. Also: Burkina Faso and Mali have declared their willingness to defend Niger with armed force if France, Nigeria, or ECOWAS were to intervene in Niger.
In order to begin understanding past and current developments in Africa, it is important to understand neocolonialism as a phase in the development of imperialism.
US government documents admit the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union.
On how the privatisation of the water industry under Margaret Thatcher has led to excessive profits and dividends for shareholders, chronic underinvestment in infrastructure, rampant sewage dumping, and a problematic revolving door between regulators and the companies they oversee.
For decades, Western media have been narrating the story about the Tiananmen Square massacre as a prime example of the brutality of the Chinese government, wherein supposedly scores of students were killed. However, a new book has emerged proving that these claims are false.
The life of the renowned campesino activist Hugo Blanco helps us see through the limitations of state reform and better hear the often-silenced voices of resisting communities.
Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma. Also: “Industrial Farming has Killed Billions of Birds”.
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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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