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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
“The adivasis of Bastar are also part of Bharat. There are many serious concerns regarding their fundamental rights, which await your attention.” Also: Civil Rights Fact-Finding Team Seeking Probe in Aerial Bombing Detained in Chhattisgarh – Statement by FACAM.
Children are pushed into working at stone quarries when their parents contract silicosis, an incurable disease, caused by silica dust in the mines.
Lawfare is the weaponized use of the law to annihilate a political or business enemy. The US piloted the use of Lawfare in the USA before rolling it out in Latin America.
Government of Dina Boluarte presents a bill to hold general elections in October 2023, a central demand of protesters. Also: Interview with Lourdes Huanca Atencio, President of the Federation of Peasant, Artisan, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Women of Peru.
It is not uncommon to see people point to Denmark as a socialist alternative. This article seeks to correct this misconception and demonstrate that capital accumulation is the guiding principle in Danish society.
Insightful critique of the recent statement by vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar questioning the Supreme Court’s 1973 verdict in the Kesavananda Bharati case that put the basic structure of the constitution beyond the reach of parliament. Also: Extract from Noorani’s article,“Behind the ‘Basic Structure’ Doctrine”.
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.
The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. government to attempts to restore democracy suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What it considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president!
On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march.
Our beloved K.P. Sasi is no more. Filmmaker, cartoonist, writer, mentor, friend and above all tireless activist championing the cause of every underdog, Sasi breathed his last, mid-afternoon this Christmas day – after battling a medical condition for months.
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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