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The Agnipath scheme introduced by the Union government for army recruitment on contractual basis is a catastrophe that would inevitably lead to militarisation of India. The fear looms large that after the end of contractual service these youths with arms training would be susceptible to exploitation by paramilitaries.
By calling for continuation of reservation, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat seems to have altered his earlier stand.
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12: “India’s Constitution has been effectively set aside. The Indian Penal Code is being rewritten…. However grim the situation is, please know that there is a tremendous fight back.”
He was fired from his job for stopping the vehicle to allow two Muslim passengers to pray. In India today, even an act of friendship and fraternity towards Muslims has become an act of deviance and a crime. This is far from the spirit foreseen by the founders of our constitutional republic.
Nuclear weapons tests, accidents at nuclear power plants, radioactive materials released from reprocessing plants, all have produced radioactive fallout that has contaminated the peoples of the world. We are all, in the words of Robert “Bo” Jacobs, the “Global Hibakusha”.
Latest reports on the devastating floods in Libya confirm 11,300 deaths, with 10,100 still reported missing. NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. That is the reason for the disaster.
A multipronged movement in Guatemala is rising to defend the surprise election of a progressive president who is under attack from the corrupt old guard.
Climate activists are closing out the hottest summer on record with hundreds of demonstrations worldwide, all blaring a unified message: “End fossil fuels.”
Ukraine has changed everything. Before Ukraine, America was number one, at least perception-wise. After Ukraine, American is number two economically, number three militarily, and this is a reality that the world is accepting. Russia knows this.
Western values seem to function intermittently, like a car’s indicator lights. For Ukraine, the right to resist invasion and occupation is sacrosanct. But not for the Palestinians. The truth is that in the game of the great powers, the issue is not really the territorial integrity of Ukraine. This is a mere pretext for the ‘defence of values’, for their export in fact.
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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