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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
As important as what they are fighting for, is how they have chosen to fight. Plus: Even after braving police action, concrete barriers, iron spikes, suspension of water and electricity, what makes the protesting farmers stay on?
While the developed world has done little to promote global vaccination, China is becoming a major supplier of covid vaccines to the developing countries following WHO’s approval to its vaccine Sinopharm; meanwhile, Modi is not willing to allow other companies to make Covishield and Covaxin – to allow their manufacturers monopoly profits.
An incompetent, vainglorious leadership, combined with the RSS belief in magical capitalism, has led to the disaster that we are now facing. Also: India’s Covid Vaccine Price in Private Sector Ranges from Rs 700-Rs 1500, Among World’s Costliest.
The state governments were, and continue to be, severely handicapped by shortage of funds. According to RBI’s analysis of state government budgets, revenue receipts (income) of state governments fell by a whopping 21% in 2020-21 compared with the previous year.
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain.
Besides thousands of lives lost, working people are faced with a dark future as earnings dwindle and a hostile government tries to crush their voices. Also: Press Statement by Joint Platform of India’s Trade Unions – Covid 19 Crises & Govt’s Anti-People Policies.
No construction is allowed in Delhi’s lockdown unless workers live on site. But 180 vehicles have been given permission to bring workers to the Central Vista.
The latest CMIE report reveals that salaried jobs across India registered a sharp decline in 2020-21 to the tune of 9.8 million, with majority of the salaried jobs lost being registered in rural India.
Farmers burn farm law copies during Holika Dahan; Declare FCI Bachao Divas on April 5; Announce Parliament march in 1st week of May; Punjab farmers prepare for long haul as harvest season nears; Tikait in Gujarat; Kisan Panchayats in Karnataka.
The government’s plan to privatise Public Sector Undertakings makes no economic sense as it will just help crony capitalists.
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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