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Even when the West expresses genuine human solidarity with Ukraine, we cannot overlook its racist context and Europe-centric bias. The West’s solidarity is reserved for whoever is willing to join its bloc, and is not found when violence is directed against non-Europeans.
I am against killing and destruction. I will therefore join in a march for peace – but not in step with the greedy, violence-hungry forces who have taken up the Ukraine issue to pursue their own disastrous goals.
Dr B.R. Ambedkar used different terms to address the community: ‘Untouchables’, ‘Depressed Classes’, and ‘Boycotted community’. Although he rarely used the term ‘Dalit’, he and his co-associates certainly used it.
Letter signed by some of the world’s leading intellectuals calling upon the Biden administration to immediately end its cruel and inhumane policies towards Afghanistan, lift sanctions, unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets, and increase humanitarian aid.
If we continue to wage the “war on evil” that George W. Bush began, we will continue to be part of that evil. Think about the millions of Afghans facing starvation in their shattered country, then imagine the consequences coming home.
Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”.
Piloting a series of substantial policy changes a little more than one week into her mandate, Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro has already established herself as a firm Latin American leader. In the process, she has brought hope and happiness to the Honduran people.
The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Indeed, a majority of the world would like to see them prohibited, including U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
It took more than a decade of protest before 3,000 farm families in Odisha succeeded in getting a South Korean steel company to vacate productive farmland. Five years later, the area is again roiled by protest, conflict and police brutality, as the government hands over the same land to an Indian steel company.
Streets in some of Myanmar‘s main cities were nearly deserted on February 1 as opponents of military rule held “silent strikes”, marking the first anniversary of a coup that led to deadly chaos and snuffed out tentative steps towards democracy.
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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