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One cannot ‘read’ Kabir without ‘reading’ the genius of the indigenous mind on the one hand and the impact of colonial intervention on the other. The author says he realised this only gradually, during the long, painful and adventurous journey in search of his own relation with Kabir.
Three UN Special Rapporteurs have noted that the broad phrasing of the IT Rules stand to seriously harm privacy and freedom of expression. The government has replied that it doesn’t think so.
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the PM.
An interview with Christine Pic-Gillard, author of a new biographical and historical study of the Liberator, that goes beyond the myths about Bolívar to examine the reasons why he remains so influential.
US efforts to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the USA raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
The reason for the Indian govt’s abysmal failure to tackle the second Covid wave lies in the fact that the Indian Republic – built as it is on the edifice of the British colonial state – is designed to work only on behalf of a tiny minority of Indians, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves.
A week after the death of the dictator Idriss Déby, Chad’s military junta and France are confronted with massive mobilizations of the toiling masses.
Why Unto the last? Because: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Since the invasion, when the Cuban people defeated US troops attempting to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government, 60 years have passed. Cuba continues its socialist path despite the increased sanctions imposed by the USA to strangulate the Cuban people by hunger and disease.
Violence, force and coercion — exemplified in the widespread use of slave labor, imperialist conquests of peoples around the world and ruthless extraction of natural resources — pervades the entire history of capitalism.
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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