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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In this interview, Béjar – the former foreign minister in the cabinet of Peru’s President Pedro Castillo and one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the hemisphere – talks about the current political situation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Two press releases urging the state administration to respect democratic values and stop the harassment of journalists in the name of national security.
“You cannot choose the time of battle. The bugle has sounded – true citizens of our republic need to fight now, no matter what your personal and professional circumstances are.”
The founders envisioned a country made up of diverse identities. This promise of equality and individuality is being replaced by a monolithic Hindu identity.
In 1968, after the tragic killing of Martin Luther King the Chicago Sun-Times published a cartoon showing assassinated Mahatma Gandhi talking to assassinated Martin Luther King in the heavens and telling, “The odd thing about assassins, Dr. King, is that they think they’ve killed you.” That cartoon is so appropriate in today’s India …
Outside the St. Michael’s Church in Mahim Mumbai is a powerful slogan. “God will always abide with me, even if I retreat!” In many ways this creative caption sums up the raging controversy on ‘Abide With Me’ that has been on prime-time news and on social media for a week now!
Now that Chile is about to inaugurate a president who is a fierce champion of human rights, it is time to memorialize victims of the Pinochet dictatorship – maybe then Kast, an ultra-right admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, would have less support.
A progressive wealth tax on the world’s richest people would raise $3.62 trillion a year – more than enough to pay for lifting 3.3 billion people out of poverty, vaccinate everyone in the world, and provide universal social protection and healthcare. Also – discussion on extent of India’s inequality and solutions for a more equal society.
Press Release: Demand Immediate and Complete Withdrawal of Proposed Biodiversity Act Amendment Bill 2021; Also – Environmental clearance is being given to projects at a breakneck speed.
As the West worked itself into a lather in the last month over Russia moving its troops within its own borders, one GOP senator, Roger Wicker, bellowed that the U.S. should attack Russia with nuclear weapons. This was actually a threat to end human life on the planet.
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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