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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
FAO’s latest report found world hunger rising. However, India’s data on food insecurity is missing. Also, another article – “Global Hunger Numbers Jump; 2.3 Billion Are ‘Food Insecure”.
Measured by the federal poverty line, about 37 million Americans live below the poverty line—that’s about 11 percent of the population. But this leaves out many millions more Americans who live one emergency expense away from poverty.
The world is looking at India – though not necessarily looking up to India.
After years of calling Venezuela’s economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for ’embracing capitalism’ — but this is not accurate.
People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.
As India gears up to celebrate its 75th year of Independence, an examination of one of our most pressing problems, the sustainability of the natural environment on which all our lives depend.
The government claims that India is on its way to becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world. It has based these claims on manipulative use of data to project a rosy picture. But there are other data sets that run contrary to the government’s claims, ones the govt doesn’t talk about.
We are living in historic times of deep crisis in the capitalist mode of production. We need to contribute to organizing the working people and fight in defence of our lives, the life of the planet, and the well-being of humanity. Time is short. Without mass struggle, there will be no change.
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
The growth at any cost strategy has been at the expense of the workers and the environment. The situation has been aggravated by the recent policy mistakes – demonetization, flawed GST and sudden lockdown. The challenge before India is not just economic but societal. Unless that challenge is met, portents are not bright for India at 75.
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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