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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Even though the Chief Justice of India’s past record gave the nation hope for transformative judicial reform to uphold constitutional morality and fortify fundamental rights under attack from the executive, his tenure has thus far been marked by one letdown after another.
An EAC-PM paper claims that the Hindu share of India’s population has fallen between 1950 and 2015 by 7.8%, while that of Muslims has increased by 43% over the same period. The authors question the methodology followed in the paper and hence its findings. Also, extract from: Banjot Kaur, ‘Fact Check: Old Data, New Spin in PM-EAC Report on India’s Population’.
The construction of a road to the Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas has triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir with the opposition parties and some Kashmiri Pandits terming the move as a “catastrophe in the making”.
A massive anti-imperialist movement has returned to US campuses, after decades of absence. In just 2 weeks, thousands of students from at least 140 colleges and universities joined in solidarity with the pro-Palestinian encampments, in the biggest anti-war student movement since Vietnam.
On the role of the Council on Foreign Relations, the think tank of monopoly-finance capital, in the continuing US military, financial, and diplomatic support for Zionist Israel.
The Alliance of Sahel States is presently at the forefront of Africa’s struggle against imperialism. What began as a national liberation struggle in each member state has rapidly consolidated into a Pan-African union for the complete emancipation of Africa.
In West Africa, several new governments have formed on the basis of political and economic sovereignty, rejecting the neo-colonial domination that has reigned on the continent since the mid-20th century. A lookback to the case of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, to understand some of the ways U.S. imperialism may potentially respond to these developments.
A new report says that agricultural land is increasingly being turned into a financial asset at the expense of small- and medium-scale farming. Agribusiness and investors are seeking to secure land for export commodity production and urging governments to deregulate land markets and adopt pro-investor policies.
Education subsidy funding changes has sparked mass protests in Paraguay. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table.
Mental illness is now recognised as one of the biggest causes of individual distress and misery in our societies and cities, comparable to poverty and unemployment. One in four adults in the UK today has been diagnosed with a mental illness, and four million people take anti-depressants.
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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