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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The recent decision by the UN General Assembly to declare 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech is significant. It comes at a special moment of world history, when hate speech in several parts of the globe, including India, seem to have become the order of the day.
Every book that is written on the past by an aspiring historian is not history. History is a specialised discipline that wends a careful and delicate way through the maze of what happened.
A three month investigation by Scroll.in of Trad groups on Twitter, Clubhouse, Reddit and Instagram. It isn’t just fascist Italy from which they seek inspiration. They also draw upon the world of the American Alt-Right to give expression to their violent fantasies of subjugating Muslims, Dalits, women and sexual minorities.
Italian historian Marzia Casolari rigorously explored how some Indians were influenced by the destructive European ideology.
Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.
The Marcos victory was largely a democratic outcome in the narrow electoral sense. The challenge for progressives is to understand why a runaway majority of the Philippine electorate voted to bring an unrepentant, thieving family back to power after 36 years.
The battle for a ‘Hindu rashtra’ has to be won in the minds of the people before it can be legitimised in Parliament. This requires a three pronged strategy: enlist support for the cause; discourage any opposition; and create on-ground conditions for a majoritarian state.
Things are smelling very Weimar Germany right now in your 21st Century “homeland”, my fellow US-Americans. Think we can’t go Hitler’s way here, in the USA? Think again. It’s happening right now, with help from Weimar Dems. Join the growing movement to protect Roe (for starters) from the right-wing assault.
Serious attempts to change what is taught and the outlook towards education itself have taken place under the stewardship of PM Narendra Modi. The new National Education Policy provides the necessary framework for both the Hindutvaisation and aggressive privatisation of education.
Press Release, 28/04/2022: We would like to invite your attention to the untold miseries and sufferings of people in Dhinkia which has been targeted for an integrated steel plant by Sajan Jindal’s JSW a few years after POSCO was driven out of the same soil.
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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