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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Such pandemics can only be prevented, ultimately, by a completely different relationship between human beings and nature than exists at the present time. It means putting a sustainable planet at the heart of everything we do.
The international weekly newspaper recently carried an article on this increasingly dominant prime minister and the ongoing erosion of checks and balances.
Two-thirds of all spending on health research is publicly funded, but the profits are privatised. Also: “By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions”.
The Centre is asking state-owned companies to buy back their shares, and dole out dividends to help the government raise funds to meet its deficit – policies which are hurting companies in the long run.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global catastrophe. But another, bigger, catastrophe has been building for many decades, and humanity is still lagging far behind in efforts to address it.
The general strike of November 26 may not only be one of the biggest and most effective strikes to have taken place in the last several years; the farmers’ march to Delhi, planned to coincide with the strike, would take this protest into hitherto uncharted territory.
The pandemic infection rate shows no sign of even slowing. In the North, employment levels are still down and real incomes are set to fall, especially for the lower paid. For the billions in the South, the spectre of poverty, illness and exploitation will be realised.
The Alma-Ata declaration affirmed health as a human right, and sanctioned government provision of universally accessible health care. Yet, during the corona pandemic, even the wealthiest countries are faced with a shortage of both human and material health resources. Why?
Despite the pressure from the United States and its allies, the people of Venezuela remain committed to the democratic project set in motion by Hugo Chávez. It is their participation in every aspect of the fight against the pandemic that has kept it in check.
In September, amid protests against the controversial new agricultural laws, the Modi government announced the MSP for six rabi crops. Official documents show that several states, including BJP-ruled ones, said the increase was minor.
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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