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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In this Monsoon Session, the Parliament passed three critical pieces of legislation amidst a walkout by the opposition. The Acts have undone years of jurisprudential developments in workers rights in the unequal relationship between employers and employees.
Forced shutdown of the human rights group will only increase international scrutiny of systemic mis-governance.
In the call for an ‘atmanirbhar’ Bharat to overcome the COVID-19 crisis is a visceral appeal to Gandhi’s swadeshi. However, in spirit and intent, it’s a violation not just of Gandhi’s swadeshi but of everything he stands for.
The ideas of justice and the primacy of the individual form the bedrock of the Gandhian world view.
The Adani group, led by the country’s second-richest man, Gautam Adani––whose proximity to PM Modi is common knowledge––is all set to become the largest private operator of airports.
Though the Indian state pretends to be very powerful when it comes to hapless citizens and acts most arbitrarily against them, it has little leverage against international capital. And yet the Indian government is handing over control of almost all the strategic sectors to international capital.
The unseemly haste through which the three Farm Bills and same numbers of labour bills were passed has fateful implications for parliamentary democracy and federalism.
The government’s priority remains to weaken the already feeble labour rights regime further in the name of attracting capital investment to revive the economy.
Mining companies stand to benefit from one of the amendments being pushed through without proper public consultation.
While all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown, the job losses for the lowest-ranked castes are greater by factor of three; the loss of income and livelihoods has pushed India’s marginalised groups into further indebtedness.
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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