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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
It is insulting for Israelis to launch this “democracy” movement when Palestinians have been ignored for decades. If the United States truly wants to spread democracy around the world, we must stop funding such blatant human rights violations. You simply cannot have it both ways.
Economic dispossession has come on top of the political dispossession of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi government has found many pretexts to put off elections to the assembly while its record on bringing growth to the region has been dismal.
From the filing of the FIR 36 years ago to the verdict delivered on March 31, 2023, nothing in the case has been just.
Contrasting images come to mind when it comes to hunger and climate: a world in which a child under age ten dies of hunger every five seconds and the oligarchs of agri-food and finance decide every day who on this planet will die and who will live. This article is about loss of both morality and of thinking.
Lahore teacher and writer Sara Arshad had never attended the Aurat March in Pakistan nor allowed her two daughters to do so, fearing the intense backlash that the feminist protest receives every year. But this Women’s Day, she took the leap of faith with her teens in tow.
With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, ninety seconds to midnight may be too generous an appraisal.
It is not strange that the US, Canada, and Australia do not sympathize with the Palestinians because they themselves were settlers too who wiped out whole cultures and confiscated their land.
The world is desperate for peace. Many see war as an opportunity for profit, and not as the abdication of the human spirit it truly is. In the meantime, millions of lives continue to be lost and families irreparably destroyed, while the mercenaries of war increase their profits.
The criminalisation of journalism and human rights activities in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other parts of India, must stop. Freedom of expression and the right to know are fundamental rights. A free press is essential for giving people a voice and making information available to them.
It has not been easy for Savitribai and Fatima, for Nagarathna and Bilkis and for several other women who have dared the system and worked towards change! These are women who have risen against all odds, ploughed the lonely path and courageously decided to embrace equity.
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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