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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
We celebrate World Press Freedom Day in May as a reminder that the role of news organizations is to speak truth to power. It’s an occasion to remember three people who exemplify the need to speak the truth: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks; and Chelsea Manning.
The Indian economy is in stagflation. Further, the people are facing a colossal unemployment, poverty and hunger crisis. For the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. Has the Budget 2023 done anything towards this?
B.R. Ambedkar was not only the most important Dalit icon and a hero for aspirational classes to adore and emulate in post-independence India, but also contributed immensely to the labour movement in the country.
On International Workers’ Day, an alternative account of how Maruti Suzuki’s small car revolution was not the unmitigated success it was touted to be – for the workers.
The ludicrous opposition by the Union government, BCI and retired judges all reek of homophobia, aimed at upholding the heteronormative hegemony existing in Indian society.
What has led to the violence that has claimed many lives and reportedly displaced over 9,000 people in the North-Eastern state?
Ninety years ago in Germany, Nazis in many cities burned books by writers deemed “un-German”.
Khader Adnan died after 86 days of refusing food in protest against his detention by Israel. But if Israel broke and finally destroyed Adnan physically, it did not do so spiritually. “Our freedom is the most precious thing we have,” Adnan explained in an essay published in a book.
Excerpt from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History’, whose paperback edition has just come out.
For the proponents of Hindu rashtra, Gandhi is the most formidable obstacle. Their latest tampering with the NCERT school textbooks is part of many manoeuvres being simultaneously carried out to finish him off forever.
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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