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The initiative, which placed the protection of the environment above the interests of the transnational companies, was celebrated by environmentalists and social organizations across the country.
The author is not referring to the war in Ukraine, but to the capitalist war on livable ecology. There’s no war and peace, no social justice, no democracy, no demilitarization, on a dead planet, whether it is frozen in nuclear winter or melted by climate change.
The sweeping disinvestment policy announced by the NDA government in December 2021 has put most of the national wealth on a distress sale. The few oligarchs who fund the political parties are waiting with their war chests of funds ready to buy the Central Public Sector Enterprises for a song.
A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive.
A progressive wealth tax on the world’s richest people would raise $3.62 trillion a year – more than enough to pay for lifting 3.3 billion people out of poverty, vaccinate everyone in the world, and provide universal social protection and healthcare. Also – discussion on extent of India’s inequality and solutions for a more equal society.
There are at least 8.7 lakh vacancies in various ministries and another 3.6 lakh in different services under the Central government, as per official data. Also – As per govt data, of the 18,905 sanctioned faculty posts in Central universities, 6,333 were vacant as of October 1, 2021.
The way in which the law often comes to oppress those at the bottom and yet fortify those at the top has been illustrated in the clearest of ways by the debacle concerning Boris Johnson in the UK.
Socialists should be clear that the cause of the climate crisis is the capitalist system and its incessant drive to accumulate profits, and that the only way to solve the crisis is to struggle for a socialist world where human need, including a sustainable relation to nature, comes before private greed.
There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough!
During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.
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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