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As per the CMIE, India’s LPR has further fallen to 40.15% last month. This means 60% of employable people in India have fallen off the job market. Other Asian economies like Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam etc. have over 60% employable people actively looking for jobs.
The rulers of “Naya Bharat” have introduced an imbalance in the civil-military equation. And if the politicians seek acceptability on the back of the soldiers’ sacrifice, the generals in turn will aspire to a louder voice in shaping the republic’s collective destiny.
Press Release: The Shaheen Bagh movement never ended, it continues to inspire us in our ongoing struggles to defend democratic rights and assert equal citizenship. On its 2nd anniversary, let us remember this powerful struggle, and organise solidarity actions across the country on 16 Dec 2021.
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
The government of PM Modi is increasingly bypassing Parliament through executive fiat by promulgating an average of 11 ordinances a year. Legislative scrutiny is at its lowest point: from 70% of bills referred to committees in the previous Lok Sabha to 11% during the current.
The last night at Singhu; Tikri Border: The day the farmers’ protest ended; Police brutality, FIRs and a hostile Khattar govt: what Haryana farmers overcame; As farmers head back home, they’re taking unity and a renewed faith in democracy with them; Six major phases that defined the farmers’ movement.
The near relentless bull run on India’s stock markets seems to be faltering, with signs of a descent from recent peaks. While short-term international and domestic developments are blamed for that reticence, there is a more serious fear keeping policy makers and central bankers awake.
The growth rate figures officially given are deeply flawed because they do not reveal the true picture of the Indian economy hit by the pandemic. Even going by the official data, the Indian economy has not yet recovered to its pre-pandemic level. Also: Five Lakh Companies Shut Shop Since 2016.
It is not only atrocities on the marginalised groups that tells us the truth about a brutal system but equally its everyday workings as experienced by its most marginal sections.
In Roorkee, Uttarakhand, over 200 people, including familiar faces and neighbours, attacked a church during Sunday prayers on 3 October. Instead of the attackers being arrested, the late pastor’s family faces a criminal case.
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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