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Even at the very peak of Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity, the mass protests that King led and inspired “didn’t come anywhere close” to the massive racial justice protests that have erupted over this past year, says Noam Chomsky.
Parul Khakkar poured out her distress in a powerful 14-line poem. Now, even as she is praised by writers and people at large for voicing the nation’s suffering, she is a target for the ruling party’s troll army.
Almost 170 years ago, the people of this country, belonging to all religions, regions and strata, rose in revolt from Kashmir to Madras and Sylhet to the borders of Afghanistan, against British colonial rule. Our rulers have allowed this glorious saga of commitment and sacrifices to be forgotten.
While the nation is becoming more aware of the ills of what has now been infamously dubbed as the ‘Gujarat Model’, the Adivasis of Kevadia village in Gujarat have seen it all and have successfully built a resistance movement.
Farmer unions put onus on government, say protest will continue till government takes the laws back, but no big action on cards in view of surging pandemic.
France remains desperate to sell its severely troubled EPR nuclear reactors to India, even though its own project at home and at both the sites outside of France have had severe cost and time overruns and continue to face safety issues.
A week after the death of the dictator Idriss Déby, Chad’s military junta and France are confronted with massive mobilizations of the toiling masses.
The welfare state wasn’t created by enlightened dialogue or “sensible” moderate politics. It was a concession won by workers against bosses through decades of struggle.
May 5 marks the 203rd birth anniversary of Marx, whose life traversed through Trier, Berlin, Paris and London, chiselling his ideas that exposed capitalism’s ‘cunning transaction’ that defrauds the working class till today.
Protest sites at Delhi’s borders are witnessing crowds again as farmers have started returning after the harvesting season.
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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