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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Alas, the consequences these days for journalists doing such stories can be serious. Even for those doing straight reporting. Siddique Kappan, arrested en route to Hathras to meet the family of the gang-rape victim, has languished in jail for over a year now, unable to get bail.
In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme released a report that received barely any attention: the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. The report found that 1.3 billion – one in five people – live in multidimensional poverty.
Not only has Cuba succeeded in vaccinating 93% of its population, including children – a figure more than most developed countries – with its indigenously developed vaccines, it has also started sending these vaccines to other countries that have approved them.
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, a prisoner who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, the jail authorities ignored Swamy’s deteriorating health conditions and denied him treatment even when he was rapidly slipping.
During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.
One of the most forceful voices defending the rights of the Guatemalan indigenous population has been Rigoberta Menchú. Born to a poor indigenous family from El Quiché, a rural area in north-central Guatemala, her activism won her international recognition.
Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Today’s centralised policies are pushing the marginalised communities further to the margins, squeezing all options for the poor but to take to the streets – says the activist.
Expressing shock and concern over the ongoing police repression on the peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district who for 17 years have used the most democratic means to resist the forceful acquisition of land for the POSCO project.
Nigerian #EndSARS protesters were successful in getting a notorious police unit disbanded. But their real legacy is the unity it inspired among the people.
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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