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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
For the Hindutva movement, Birsa Munda is an icon only because he and his followers attacked missionaries and the church. But this is a deliberate misreading of history and a willful deception.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the PM.
It’s the systemization of harassment and the weaponization of every possible piece of law to persecute opponents and critics of the government that are extenuating individual freedoms and civil liberties. So, while the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutional validity of Section 124A is welcome, it is not enough.
Interview with Santos Saavedra Vásquez, the president of the National United Center of Rural and Urban Peasant Patrols of Peru, on the upcoming second round of presidential elections in Peru, and they mean for the rural, peasant and Indigenous communities of the country.
An analysis of the recent UP panchayat election results and 2017 election results indicates that it is possible for a SP-led Opposition alliance to defeat the BJP in the coming UP assembly elections, even without the support of the BSP.
Excerpts from ‘Song of a Rebel and Other Selected Poems’ by Bina Sarkar Ellias.
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, fought in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus.
Narendra Modi has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he now has to negotiate.
The RSS knows that capturing the hearts and minds of the young is a generational task and is ready to wait for another two elections for the BJP to capture the state in Bengal.
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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