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The recent decision by the UN General Assembly to declare 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech is significant. It comes at a special moment of world history, when hate speech in several parts of the globe, including India, seem to have become the order of the day.
The Hindu right wing has been trying to appropriate the legacy of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Subhas Chandra Bose in a bid to acquire legitimacy. All of them despised the Sangh Parivar.
India’s health sector is beset with too many problems most of which can be traced to inadequate funding. Poor funding has led to poor capacity and poor quality of healthcare.
A three month investigation by Scroll.in of Trad groups on Twitter, Clubhouse, Reddit and Instagram. It isn’t just fascist Italy from which they seek inspiration. They also draw upon the world of the American Alt-Right to give expression to their violent fantasies of subjugating Muslims, Dalits, women and sexual minorities.
Processes unleashed since August 2019 are bearing fruit that favour BJP, not Kashmiris or the Pandit community, who are vigorously challenging Right-Wing communalism. Also: Yasin Malik Could Have Been the Muivah of Kashmir.
Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico have legalized or decriminalized abortion. Could Chile be next?
Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
Although the current debate in the US on abortion rights centers on the issue of the women’s right to make decisions over their own bodies, the issue is actually related to the urgent need to overturn patriarchal gender norms, class oppression and the capitalist economic system that perpetuate them. The fight is really for life for the majority, not just for the few.
The most crucial issue is, why do the common Muslims of today’s India have to pay for the sins of ‘Muslim’ rulers of the past who had friendly and cordial relations with higher caste Hindus? We also need to investigate whether ‘Hindu’ history was devoid of religious, social and political persecution.
Meet some of the people of South Africa who have held the steps of the apex court of the country for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
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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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