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On the 2nd anniversary of the police crackdown on students protesting in the Jamia Millia University campus against the enactment of the CAA, students and civil society members recounted the police brutality that had left several injured. The PUDR also released a fact-finding report.
A compilation from two articles: China, with 1.4 billion people, has kept total cases below 100,000 and total deaths below 5,000. By comparison, the United States, with less than a quarter of the population of China, has had more than 50 million cases and 800,000 deaths.
The realization of authentic freedom and human dignity can only come about through victory over Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy. With people centred human rights, we have an ideological weapon for advancing this struggle.
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
Choosing My Religion – Proposed Karnataka Freedom of Religion Bill; Karnataka Anti-Conversion Law Is Meant for Persecution: An Interview with Archbishop of Bangalore Rev. Peter Machado.
Whether selling cigarettes or deposing world leaders, Edward Bernays molded reality like clay. In his hands, words spun like so many hollow jars. However, the one constant, the one truth among his many distortions, is that Bernays had no use for the truth.
Not only these three statements, but several other actions by the highest in the land as also by the political leaders need to be put under the scanner. They go against the fundamental principles of our constitution.
The Indian Constitution guarantees equality under Article 14. But when we examine the domestic sphere under the matrimonial laws, since men and women within the marriage are not equal, the same yardstick of equality cannot be applied. Equality can only be between equals.
President Biden and his colleagues must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
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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