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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
3,000 dead on 9/11 meant everything, 200,000 dead of Covid-19 means nothing. But there is one thing both these two periods have in common—both represent huge wins for the military-industrial complex.
While US continues to suffer the devastating impacts of poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s people-centered approach serves as a model to follow.
Science is an essential tool in controlling the spread and effects of the COVID pandemic. But the effectiveness of this tool is blunted by the political shaping of science.
Big business and Big Pharma dominate our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit.
Curtailment of health services has caused a fall in immunisations, maternal health interventions and treatments of conditions such as kidney failure and cancer; while shutdown of anganwadis is adversely affecting malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers.
The dropping of Question Hour in Parliament, which helps the government feel the nation’s pulse, goes against the grain of democracy.
In a bid to manage the fiscal deficit, the Centre significantly reduced its public expenditure. However, this contracted aggregate demand at a time when it actually needed a boost.
There is a decent chance that the GDP numbers, which say very little about the state of the unorganised sector, will be revised downwards.
Foster talks about the US escalating its tension with China conflict, about whether there are any differences between Trump and Biden, and about the worsening environmental crisis.
It is time to levy an emergency wealth tax on billionaire profiteers and direct the funds to offset the cost of the nation’s health-care costs.
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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