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Jeremy Corbyn We are living in highly volatile times. Two-and-a-half years ago, in the first general election I contested as Labour leader, our party increased its share of the popular vote by 10 percentage points. On Thursday, on a desperately disappointing night, we fell back eight points. I have called for a period…
Pavan Kulkarni Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966)—mythologised in popular imagination as ‘Veer Savarkar’—not only refrained from participating in the freedom struggle after the British released him from prison on account of his relentless pleas for mercy, but also actively collaborated with the English rulers to whom he had declared his loyalty. At the time…
Prabhat Patnaik (This is the second part of an article on the perversity of the neo-liberal fiscal regime. The first part of this article was published in the previous issue of Janata.) Apart from defrauding the states of their legitimate share of resources, the second way in which the Centre is attempting to…
Citizens for Justice and Peace We, the people of India, protest against the move to question our citizenship. We believe that this is an attempt to divide India on religious lines. Our citizenship has been granted to us by law and constitution and we will defend it till our last breath. Over the past…
Ushosee Pal & Sanchari Basu Chaudhuri Time and again, students have shown the way to dissent peacefully and demand change. And, Friday, the 13th of December, 2019, was no different. Three to four teachers were giving a speech about NRC and CAB inside the campus while a number of students (around fifty) listened….
Prem Shankar Jha During the Lok Sabha debate on the Bill amending the Citizenship Act, Union home minister Amit Shah suddenly lost his temper and blurted: “Is desh ka vibhajan agar dharma ke aadhar par Congress na kari hoti to is Bill ka kaam nahin hota (Had the Congress not partitioned this country on…
G.G. Parekh, Neeraj Jain Being a citizen is the supremest identity that a person has; in contrast, being declared non-citizen (or a foreigner) effectively means the person becomes stateless, which condemns him/her to civil death—a person becomes deprived of almost all his civil rights. The Indian Constitution granted citizenship by birth to all people; after…
Julia Conley Lawmakers in Kansas City, Missouri took a “visionary step” on December 5, 2019 by unanimously voting to make public transportation in the city free of charge, setting the stage for it to be the first major US city to have free public transit. The Kansas City Council voted to direct the…
Yogesh Maitreya If there is one man who deserves to be called a renaissance figure in dalit literature and art, it is Raja Dhale. Many may have heard of him only recently, when he passed away in July, 2019. Dhale was a remarkable poet; an occasional but refined translator; a fiery yet incisive critic…
Richard Greeman On the eve of an “unlimited” (open-ended) General Strike called for December 5, more and more unions and protest groups are pledging join it. Two things are unusual about this strike. The first is that it is open-ended, rather than the usual one-day of ritualistic protest marches, and may be prolonged…
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