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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On 1st May 1886, radical pamphlets appeared in America. One of the pamphlets famously declared, “Arouse ye toilers of America! Lay down your tools…one day of revolt, not of rest… a day on which to enjoy eight hours of work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will”. This struggle gave rise to the International Workers Day or May Day.
Celebrating the birthday of Mother Earth means to think and celebrate the difficult existence of Mother Earth herself, with identity, dignity, rights, her own stories.
It will be a disservice to Ambedkar and to his intellectual oeuvre if we neglect the fundamental questions of caste and untouchability, and applaud him as an abstract national hero. Remembering Ambedkar demands that we advance the struggle to annihilate caste.
On April 2, the police in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh had arrested, stripped and humiliated a local journalist and some members of the civil society, in retaliation to their reporting on BJP MLA and his son; “Arrest Communal Hooligans; Release Jailed Scribes,” Says Press Club of India.
An excerpt from Revolutionary Passions shows that Bhagat Singh – who the Hindu Right tends to project as an antidote to the Congress and Gandhi – not only had close relations with Congress leaders, but was also critical of Hinduism.
The law is now being deployed for the political end he was willing to die to prevent – the establishment of a Hindu Raj.
If the government partially withdraws some of the concessions / subsidies / transfers of public wealth being given to the rich, and imposes some additional taxes on them, it can raise enough additional revenues to finance a big hike in its social sector expenditures.
While Putin’s actions are a reaction to the events of the past three decades, they do not justify the invasion of Ukraine. Neither is the resurrection of the institutions of global militarism (such as NATO) justified, that have contributed so much to the creation of the problem. The popular movement for peace needs to be rekindled.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an unprovoked and unjustified attack that will go down in history as one of the major war crimes of the 21st century, argues Noam Chomsky. But at the same time, it must not be forgotten that there would have been no basis for the present crisis if there had been no expansion of the NATO alliance following the end of the Cold War.
Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old student, lived an ordinary life in the south Karnataka town of Mandya before an extraordinary moment of courage and resistance brought her national fame and converted her moment of bravery into an iconic image. She talks about her hijab, her values and everyone’s freedom to choose in this interview.
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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