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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Over the last decade, Ros has become deeply involved with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the US-based, progressive Jewish anti-Zionist activist organization. She has thought deeply about the connections between feminism, human rights, peace, and justice in the context of Israel and Palestine.
Knowing Noam, I might echo what Bob Dylan had to say about Dave Van Ronk: “No puppet strings on him, ever. He was big, sky-high, and I looked up to him. He came from the land of giants.”
The COP28 summit taking place in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec is a colossal illusion. The delusionary effect is that the capitalist system is capable of reforming itself sufficiently to prevent global climate catastrophe, even as all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion.
America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. Its greatest failure however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa.
Nearly three years after seizing power, the military has lost control of most of the country.
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Twelve changes to criminal law in the three Bills introduced in parliament in August 2023 will create a quantum leap in the power of the government to silence dissent and opposition and shut down public discourse, choking all channels that communicate conflicting news or views to the people.
The PUCL expresses its deep disappointment with respect to the verdict of the Supreme Court denying the right to marry to the LGBTQI community. It is unfortunate that the bench was unanimous in declaring that there is no fundamental right to marriage.
Israel is convinced greater levels of violence will finally crush Palestinian aspirations; it is mistaken. Also: “The Violence of the Oppressed” – No one should cheer the slaughter in Israel; but to forebear from cheering is not to condemn. Also: “Human Rights Watch Confirms White Phosphorus Used in Gaza”.
Commentators are already noting that the One-Day international cricket tournament commencing in India will usher in a pre-election campaign extravaganza for Modi and his BJP, one lasting six weeks.
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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