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  • The Republic is Being Reborn!
    Editor's Picks | Print Edition

    The Republic is Being Reborn!

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain   The ruling Modi–Shah duo led BJP government’s attempts to make alternations in the Indian Constitution have sparked off protests across the country, protests which are unique in the sense that it is the first time since Independence that people are coming out on the streets to defend the Constitution. In…

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  • Budget 2020: Impose Wealth Tax and Inheritance Tax on the Rich to Finance Increase in Social Sector Expenditures 
    Economy | Indian Economy | Print Edition

    Budget 2020: Impose Wealth Tax and Inheritance Tax on the Rich to Finance Increase in Social Sector Expenditures 

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

        The budget for 2020 is due. We have argued in articles published in Janata that imposition of a progressive wealth tax ranging from 2% on India’s dollar millionaires to 5% on India’s dollar billionaires would yield at least Rs 8 lakh crore in additional income for the government. Additionally, imposition of a modest…

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  • The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development
    Print Edition | Socialism | World Politics

    The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Michael Lebowitz interviewed by editors of Hak Mücadeleleri   HM: Let’s start with your ideas about rethinking Marx, capital’s logic, and the logic of the working class? And how we can relate these subjects with today’s social movements?   ML: For some time, I have argued that Marx did not develop theoretically the side of…

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  • India’s Worsening Unemployment Crisis
    Economy | Indian Economy

    India’s Worsening Unemployment Crisis

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Neeraj Jain   Soon after Modi-led BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the government felt emboldened to release the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, that it had suppressed. The data show that absolute employment in the country has actually fallen during the years of Modi’s prime ministership – the first time it has…

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  • Remembering the Forgotten: J.C. Kumarappa
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    Remembering the Forgotten: J.C. Kumarappa

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Ratheesh Pisharody   The year 2020, brings with it many challenges for both the planet as well as the “Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic of India”. When we celebrate India’s “Republic Day” this year on the 26th of January, there should be an attempt do more than just take a day off from work and…

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  • Defining Needs: Marx and Gandhi
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    Defining Needs: Marx and Gandhi

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                   Samar Bagchi On 26th November 2019 Agence France-Presse reported from Paris that the scientists of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have predicted that if the global temperature rise has to be restricted to 1.5°C then the global emission of CO2 has to be reduced by 76% by 2030. Acknowledging the imminent ecological crisis endangering the…

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  • Dr.  Ambedkar and the Future of Indian Democracy
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    Dr.  Ambedkar and the Future of Indian Democracy

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Jean Drèze   The future of Indian democracy depends a great deal on a revival of Dr. Ambedkar’s visionary conception of democracy. This vision also needs to be enlarged and updated in the light of recent experience. Revolutionary Democracy Dr. Ambedkar’s vision of democracy was closely related to his ideal of a “good society”. He…

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  • The Importance and Centrality of Jawaharlal Nehru in Contemporary India
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    The Importance and Centrality of Jawaharlal Nehru in Contemporary India

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Anil Nauriya   (This essay was written in 2015, as a review of Nayantara Sahgal’s book, “Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation”. We are publishing an edited version of this essay, because it has become even more relevant today.) If one scans the political landscape of India in the 20th century for…

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  • Gandhi and the National Movement
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    Gandhi and the National Movement

    ByJanataWeekly January 26, 2020November 9, 2020

    Irfan Habib (This is a abridged version of a lecture by Prof. Irfan Habib, delivered on December 28, 1994, organised by SAHMAT. It is as relevant today as it was then.) I deem it an honour indeed that I should be asked to speak on Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement. It is a very…

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  • Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?
    Communalism | Fascism | Print Edition

    Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?

    ByJanataWeekly January 23, 2020

    Debasish Bhattacharjee    Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….

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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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