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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
As there are increasing warnings by distinguished scientists against Genetically Modified (GM) crops, the strong GM lobby backed by big corporate interests is using several tricks to find a way past these warnings.
Toxic waste from effluent tanks built in South West Khasi Hills district in 1990s after exploratory mining in area, contaminates streams and rivers; causes miscarriages, deformities in new-born children and cancer.
Compared to the the seasonally adjusted fourth quarter figures of 2019, the labour hour losses for the first three quarters of 2020 for the South Asia region were 3.1, 27.3 and 18.2% respectively.
On the occasion of Narendra Dabholkar’s birth anniversary on November 1, an excerpt from Narendra Dabholkar’s book ‘The Case of Reason: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement’.
His true offence is being a radical, a socialist, an anti-imperialist.
Today, everyone agrees that the best way to deal with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. The WHO had proposed this at the Alma Ata International Conference in 1978.
As we await the result of the US presidential election, here are some facts about the US economy within a world context.
No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy.
The United States boasts one of the most farcical democratic systems to have been invented. The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population. Its Supreme Court, conservative by nature and…
The launching of the Champaran Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 marked a revolutionary landmark as much in the history of India as in the history of humanity for reconstruction of society and polity based on non-violence.
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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