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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
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.
After a month-long visit to India in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.
Population growth is already slowing down across faiths. The Bill only serves to foster division. Plus extracts from: “… UP … 50% of party MLAs have more than two children” and “MP: 39 % of BJP MLAs … Including 13 Ministers, Have Three and Above Children, Shows Data”.
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
Of all the women who actively participated in the Paris Commune, including prominent political thinkers and organisers, such as Elizabeth Dmitrieff, Andre Leo, and Nathalie Lemel, the name which is remembered most in association with the Commune is that of Louise Michel.
Fr Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, has now become part of the Adivasi folklore of resistance. He is also a martyr to their cause of protecting their heritage, their ‘Jal, Jangal, Zameen’ from the lusting eyes of the men in political power and their crony corporate friends.
Every civilised country grants dignity, rights and protection to citizens regardless of identity. It is about time India does so too. For this, it is important that LGBTQIA+ leaders enter electoral politics because without political power their pride will always be challenged.
Despite continuing to be the object of strong US interference and coup attempts, Nicaragua is resisting with all the contradictions the situation implies, continuing to scare the oligarchy out of its wits: a discussion with journalist Fabrizio Casari.
An online poll in the USA found that capitalism is particularly unpopular among 18 to 24-year-olds, with negative views outweighing positive views by a margin of 54% to 42%; Buffalo and Cleveland have become battlegrounds between progressive activists and establishment forces.
Interview with Juan Lenzo, communications coordinator with the Communard Union, a grassroots organization that has been working throughout Venezuela for the last two years in a heroic effort to re-politicize and reactivate Venezuelan communes and related projects.
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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