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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
More than 32,000 incidents of rape took place in 2019; also, a total of 45,935 cases of crime or atrocities against Dalits and a total of 8,257 cases of crime against tribal people were recorded.
The visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Moscow on September 10-11, 2020 and the joint statement issued at the end of the visit stands out as a turning point in the evolution of the Sino-Russian entente. Part 2 of this three part article.
The IMF, along with the World Bank, is dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter to the interests of the world’s populations.
Racism today is no longer underpinned by slavery. Racial division remains central to the maintenance of bourgeois power in modern capitalism. The struggle that was required to win abolition of slavery has enormous relevance to modern struggles against capitalism.
While the government proposes to increase spending on education from 10% of total govt. expenditure to 20% by 2030 in its education policy, it is not reflected in its education outlay in the budget.
Technology does not deliver a “happy life” (Smith) or “abundant leisure” (Keynes). Mechanisation under capitalism has actually led to more ’bullshit jobs’ that destroy creativity and meaningful work, while increasing toil.
In this Monsoon Session, the Parliament passed three critical pieces of legislation amidst a walkout by the opposition. The Acts have undone years of jurisprudential developments in workers rights in the unequal relationship between employers and employees.
NAPM condemns the criminal neglect of the prosecution in the case and complete denial of the findings of the Liberhan Commission.
The true reason for NIA arresting Fr. Stan Swamy is because he had dared to expose the large scale abuse of anti-terror and sedition laws by the previous BJP-led Jharkhand government.
Forced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governance.
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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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