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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader in the long anti-colonial struggle to free his own land and to inspire a fighting will in other lands under bondage. He lived to see victory and to move then to another epochal confrontation—the fight for peace after the Second World War.
Chinese broadcasters have several times aired shows that feature Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and a well-known civil rights activist. It’s part of the history that connects Black internationalism with the experiences of Chinese people.
By addressing prejudices head-on with an open mind, blues musician Daryl Davis has succeeded in convincing over 200 KKK members and other White supremacists to disavow their allegiances.
We live in a time when it’s become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under attack. It seems that things get bleaker every year, so much so that it can be difficult to have any hope at all. There is, however, at least one glimmer of hope for democracy: a renascent labor movement.
George Floyd was murdered two years ago today. It set off a massive uprising that changed a generation. While the movement didn’t stop the police killing of Black people, a whole generation was deeply changed by the protests.
The answer to fighting white terrorism is building an independent movement, like the Black Lives Matter movement two years ago, and the women’s rights movement today.
King writes: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This letter became an important text for the civil rights movement in the United States. It has been described as “one of the most important historical documents penned by a modern political prisoner” and is considered a classic document of civil disobedience.
Savarkarites are claiming that Savarkar had imagined a nation free of malevolent social evils such as caste cruelty, Untouchability, and injustice towards women. A comparison of these claims with the writings and deeds of Savarkar as recorded in the Hindu Mahasabha archives.
There has never been a full reckoning with the racism that is woven into the fabric of our nation. Hiding our history makes us weaker, not stronger. Confronting difficult feelings can bring us healing and wholeness, and bring us together.
When studying history, we must always remember that it is the victors that write history. It is the duty, therefore, of every socialist to tell it like it was, and is, at every opportunity. In the battle of ideas that we wage against the ruling class, we must not concede them one inch in interpreting the past.
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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