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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Eight private jets – four from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad – carrying some of India’s super-rich left the country for the United Kingdom and landed at the Luton airport in London on Friday – the day travel restrictions to the UK kicked in.
A serious explanation of the covid health emergency together with the associated economic slump must involve a scientific critique of the social conditions that allowed the virus to emerge and the pandemic to develop in the way that it did.
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
As rich nations stockpile COVID-19 vaccines, China is providing a lifeline to Global South nations spurned by Western pharmaceuticals and excluded by the West’s neocolonial vaccine nationalism. The vaccines being developed by Cuba will also soon be available to the poor countries.
The latest CMIE report reveals that salaried jobs across India registered a sharp decline in 2020-21 to the tune of 9.8 million, with majority of the salaried jobs lost being registered in rural India.
The Indian government is promoting job-destroying ‘smart’ automation, despite the country reeling from the worst unemployment crisis in recent history, at the behest of the World Economic Forum, which is dominated by the world’s biggest corporations.
A discussion with Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the leaders of the Landless Movement of Brazil, on the current situation in his country, which is submerged in a very grave health crisis as well as another crisis resulting from the disaster produced by the appalling government of Jair Bolsonaro.
This statement, signed by dozens of organisations from around the world, calls for support of the resistance by the Haitian people to the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise, and provides concrete ways for progressive-minded people to take action in solidarity with Haiti.
Covid-19 ‘variants of concern’ have changed the game – and vaccines alone may not be enough; Interview: Indians shouldn’t believe the myth that the country’s Covid-19 mortality rate is low.
The novel was very effective in drawing attention to the injustices faced by displaced farmers in the wake of the great depression and the dust bowl phenomenon. We in India are all too familiar with this overwhelming reality of our times, and this is all the more reason for remembering this story.
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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