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Press Statement: Young environmental activists, that the country should be proud of, are the latest victims of the Centre’s continuing efforts to deligitimise the ongoing farmers protest and the nationwide solidarity it has generated. We demand that Disha Ravi be immediately released.
Ravi is a 21-year old who volunteers with Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Over the past week, Myanmar’s citizens are openly and publicly challenging the country’s powerful military, whose coup earlier this month now threatens to stifle the country’s fledgling democracy.
The model the Modi Government is seeking to impose on Indian agriculture is similar to that imposed on Mexican agriculture since the onset of IMF-dictated ‘reforms’ in the 1980s.
The fighting spirit of the farmers has kept the agitation alive through the past two months. The farmers on the ground at the Delhi siege and those supporting them from the villages assert that this will see their struggle through all the machinations of the propagators of the “Big Lie”.
In August 2020, following the Belarusian presidential election, the opposition has organised protests, calling for the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko. Nadezhda, a Belarusian journalist, provides an anti-imperialist overview for what is taking place.
He and his fellow soldiers will be always remembered for their courage and sacrifice in refusing to fire on peaceful protesters offering non-violent resistance. Thereby a new and glorious chapter was added and a new dimension was given to the history of non-violent struggles against injustice.
Angel Prado, El Maizal commune’s key spokesperson, talks about the role of the commune in the transition to socialism, the communards’ critical support of the government and their plans for an ambitious education and training initiative.
If you want to know the consequences of the three farm bills, look no further than Mexico, where similar policies have driven millions of farmers and small retailers into bankruptcy, and the country has lost its food sovereignty.
Gandhi, Chauri Chaura, and the entire context of the Non-Cooperation Movement, present important lessons for Indians. If incidents of Indians-against-Indians violence continue, our Swaraj, as the Mahatma had warned, will “stink in our nostrils”.
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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