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A left-populist strategy recognizes that society is inherently divided and insists on the partisan nature of politics. In this sense it accords with the Marxian approach, but it differs in the way the frontier is constructed – the the populist frontier is not constructed on a class basis.
Four billion people — almost two thirds of the world’s population — experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.
Moved by the death of Indra Kumar Meghwal at the hands of his teacher, a poet wields his pen and lashes at the age-old caste system that keeps many at the receiving end of injustice
Two recent shocking revelations: Vedanta-Foxconn cornering a subsidy of Rs 76,000 crore to build chips; and a wrong Hyundai group getting a huge subsidy to make EV batteries. The partisan debate over “freebies” sparked by PM Modi himself now stands exposed more than ever, in multiple ways.
The 2022 Global Hunger Index shows India occupying the 107th position among 121 countries. This should come as no surprise. Several scholars have used data on per capita daily calorie intake, and per capita annual foodgrain availability to point out that hunger in the country is acute and growing.
The powers-that-be have gone through a range of administrative and political contortions to ensure, before any elections happen, that the ruling party will win.
In April 1941, communal riots broke out in Ahmedabad. Gandhiji’s secretary, Mahadev Desai, wrote a long report on the riots, which remains unpublished. Guha discusses this report, as it is not only very moving, but also speaks directly to the communal situation in India today.
Hindu nationalists frequently anoint themselves the Indigenous people of India. This identity claim—informed by upper-caste sensibilities and a core part of Hindutva mythology—is misleading and harmful to numerous minoritized Indian communities. It undermines the status of Adivasis.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s resignation after just 45 days in office, is the result of the enormous international and internal pressures on British imperialism, amid a war with Russia threatening to go nuclear and an unprecedented collapse in living standards.
IMF’s solution for Lankan debt crisis could be a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
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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