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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The farmers’ historic struggle and victory has upset not merely political arrogance but conventional wisdom in more than one way. It has shown the limitations of class analysis, and has thrown up new ideas for organizing peaceful protests in a democracy.
In the past few years, a significant number of young men and women in India have been attracted to a dangerous alt-right digital ecosystem called ‘trad-wing’, in which they serve as self-styled civilisational warriors.
During a period of national emergency, the U.S government nationalizes key business sectors. It did so during World War I and II, and in subsequent periods of national crises. So, why has death of 800,000-plus Americans from Covid not pushed the U.S. government to nationalize key pharmaceutical manufactures?
In the world of high politics, suffering is an instrument of statecraft, and US officials are trying to strangle the Venezuelan Revolution with sanctions. Above all, they fear the radical ambitions of the popular classes, which once transformed Venezuela and may do so again
The vitriol of Hindutva rhetoric is obliterating the Constitutional idea that all citizens are equal, regardless of religion.
Vivekananda was not a traditional Hindu monk as the Sangh Parivar makes him out to be. He was a modern ascetic with a scientific and materialist outlook. A brief outline of some of his views.
Women journalists and activists; academics and students; two office bearers of the Congress Party; authors, a lawyer, a historian, a radio jockey, a famous actor, all Muslim women, were ‘sold’ in an online hate crime on New Year. Besides their identity, they had something else in common.
In a dramatic run-off election in Chile between a hard-right open admirer of Pinochet named Antonio Kast and a 35-year old leftist and veteran of a decade of protest actions against the government, Gabriel Boric, the socialist candidate has won with a 12% margin of victory.
The People’s Commission on the Public Sector and Public Services has emphasised that the public sector was created as an essential instrument for achieving a welfare State in India in consonance with the vision articulated in the directive principles of state policy laid down in the Constitution.
Press Release and Statement on the ‘Dharma Sansad’ organized in Haridwar from Dec 17 to 19 wherein several religious leaders and those associated with Hindutva extremist organisations gave an open call for Hindus to arm themselves and eliminate Muslims from the country.
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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