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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
Patriarchy starts from homes, not the streets. Families, especially mothers, impose salwar-kameez and dupatta on young girls and women, as soon as they turn 12 or 13. But they never have a conversation with their sons about respecting women or even their own sisters.
The three governments have created an alliance to establish “an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations.” It is not merely a military pact; they have also agreed to develop an economic agenda to benefit their peoples, and decolonise the region of French influence.
In exchange for an emergency loan, the IMF has imposed a series of conditions that have significantly exacerbated Sri Lanka’s wage and cost-of-living crises. Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets in protest.
AMLO government has cancelled public-private partnerships for nine public hospitals by simply offering to pay just over 5% of the outstanding debt and fees owed to the companies involved. This is in sharp contrast to Europe – where many governments are gutting their public healthcare services.
Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse.
Capitalist agriculture is a failure. Market fundamentalists tell us incessantly that the “magic of the market” will ensure everybody has sufficient food. But then why is it that billions of people can’t afford food? It is precisely “markets” that are behind the huge numbers of people with insufficient food.
Alrowwad Arts and Cultural Society is a Palestinian organization that was founded in 1998 by Dr. Abusrour Abdelfattah in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem Governorate. This article is based on an interview conducted by the editorial team with Dr. Abdelfattah.
Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state meeting at the Amazon Summit on August 8. The movements met in a parallel summit in Belém that emphasized indigenous unity and leadership in the face of the crisis facing the region.
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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