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A mass strike to mark the anniversary of a terrible crash on privatised railway demonstrates the anger of Greek workers at government neglect and corruption. Kevin Ovenden reports from Athens and argues this can mark a qualitative change in the struggle.
In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forget and ensure that the horrors of genocide are consigned to history, never to be repeated.
Considered by some the most incomparable cultural icon of medieval Islamic India, Khusrau left such a deep imprint on Delhi’s culture that it can still be felt.
In Mumbai, on 30 December 2024, we celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr. GG Parikh (GG), a person who dedicated his life to rid the world of inequalities and establish a society free from exploitation.
India today is far from the democratic ideal envisaged by the man who chaired the drafting committee of the Constitution.
No budget in post-independence India had been as openly cynical about the lives of the vast masses of the working people as the one presented on February 1, 2025.
The Modi Government released a National Health Policy in March 2017 that promised to increase the health expenditure of the Centre and States to 2.5% of GDP by 2025. This article discusses the Modi Government’s actual health policy during the past ten years.
India is facing a hunger and malnutrition crisis. In this article, we examine the Modi Government’s budgetary allocations for the various schemes meant to address the nutrition requirements of the people in the eleven budgets presented from 2014 to 2024.
There is a sense of panic gripping financial markets in India. The immediate causes are a combined slide of indices of stock markets and of the rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar. At the root of this problem is the hugely increased presence of foreign financial capital in India’s market. That consequence of financial liberalisation cannot be easily corrected.
The price for the NPAs of the big corporates is ultimately paid by the aam aadmi. Given that such huge provisions for the NPAs tie up a large portion of funds, it in effect limits the credit available for lending to key sectors like agriculture or MSMEs.
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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