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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace Report 2022 reveals high levels of alienation and stress faced by workers; 120 million occupational accidents, of which 2.1 lakh are fatal accidents, occur annually at workplaces worldwide; Also: WHO-ILO Report: Work-related Causes Kill 2 Million People Globally Each Year.
Th attempt by a small but powerful minority to propagate GM crops to serve their interests and those of giant corporations, the bureaucracy, the political setup and a few unprincipled and unethical scientists and technologists who can be used as tools, must be opposed.
Focusing more on population than consumption ignores the far greater impacts wealthy countries – where population growth is slowing – are creating.
The total premium paid under PMFBY by the Centre, the States and the farmers to insurance companies during the last 5 years was Rs 1,26,521 crore, whereas the insurance companies paid only Rs 87,320 crore to the farmers towards settlement of claims.
Genetically engineered Bt cotton varieties were widely promoted by powerful private companies as being less susceptible to pests, hence reduce pesticide use and increase yields. However the actual experience of farmers in India has been very different from this.
Joao Pedro Stedile of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) talks about the implications of Lula’s victory for Brazil and the world, and the challenges he will have to surpass in order to fulfill his election promises.
In the entire history of post-Independence India, no single economic measure has been as devastating for the people and as utterly futile in achieving its stated objectives, as the demonetisation of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination.
On October 18, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, GOI permitted the environmental release of genetically-modified mustard. Being the first food crop, expert studies question the environmental, biosafety and human health risks associated with hasty government approval.
The comparative study of increase in the MSP during the one decade of the Modi govt. and one decade of the Manmohan govt. reveals that the proportional increase in MSP during the Manmohan govt. was almost 2 to 3 times higher than increase in MSP during the Modi govt.
Food prices are rising due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates. In addition, agribusiness forms are using this crisis as an opportunity to promote GE technologies.
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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