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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.
Recent incidents in Indore and Ajmer explain why it is urgent for the global community to tell the Indian government that its actions are being watched and it will be held accountable according to international norms which all civilised countries have for their attitude towards minorities.
The Sudanese revolution has been unique in its depth and scope. Yet the path to progress remains fraught with obstacles.
In Dalit women’s songs, emotions stimulate intellectualism in order to annihilate caste from our minds. In them, melody is constructed through historical fact, and music is a medium to pursue a life of the mind, emancipating singers and listeners from social constructs.
Democracy is the only form of governance that cultivates the arts and crafts of governance at a respectful distance and always aims at the achievement of what the philosopher John Rawls called “overlapping consensus” for “reasonable pluralism”.
The institutional murder of 84-year-old Jesuit priest Fr Stan Swamy has shaken the very foundations of democracy in India. The urgency to defend democracy and all that is precious in the Constitution of India against repressive and anti-people laws, is perhaps felt today, as never before.
Speech delivered by the renowned anti-racist activist on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
José Pedro Castillo, a 51-year-old teacher of a rural school, assumed the charge of the presidency of Peru on July 28. This is the first time that Peru will be ruled by a peasant, a person who belongs to a sector that has been oppressed for so many centuries.
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
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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