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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China’s health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
Marginalised sections are still feeling the impact of the pandemic – and still waiting for answers from the authorities.
India is ranked 116th among 146 countries as per the Global Gender Index. The gender-pay gap in India continues to afflict its labour markets and the constitutional value of equality. Also: “India Had Most Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in 2020, Says UN Report”.
Women and their struggle for equality are inherently tied to the struggle for democracy in India.
The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the West – to the dustbin.
Forced removal of Chagos islanders gave the US a nuclear base and the UK a deal on nuclear weapons.
Conditions for working people continue to get worse. The right to strike, or to join a union, is denied by an increasing number of the world’s governments. The 2023 Global Rights Index report says that there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights.
Book Review: “The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift”, by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark. ‘Robbery of Nature’ clearly and powerfully explains why capitalism must plunder and destroy nature and why for the future of humanity it must be replaced.
The BJP raising the women’s reservation issue, in the last eight months of a nine and a half year tenure of the Modi government, appears to be wanting to take the heat off serious concerns that have tarred the record of this government around the safety and well-being of women.
The G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute global economic crisis. Yet the G-20 summit did not take any initiative in the matter of overcoming this crisis, especially with regard to the external debt of the third world countries.
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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