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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
As we reflect on the upcoming Philippine Independence Day celebration on June 12, it is difficult to discern true Philippine sovereignty when the reality is that the Philippines is a semi-colony, with the country still ruled by and dependent on the power and capital of the United States.
It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood — democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
Today we are facing a revivalist moment in our political history, ironically, as a free nation. It is a defeatist hangover of history to create a wedge between what we named and what named us. We adopted these names for centuries out of a spirit we call Indian, or Bharatiya.
Over the past ten years, the BJP has outspent rivals in polls and begun building new party offices in every district and state in India, as well as made huge additions to its cash reserves. In addition, a handful of corporate firms have also seen an upswing in fortunes in the last ten years.
PUCL, Fridays for Future and Bahutva Karnataka have jointly released a report analysing the claims made by the BJP and PM Modi on domestic and international platforms, and the ground realities.
Even though the Chief Justice of India’s past record gave the nation hope for transformative judicial reform to uphold constitutional morality and fortify fundamental rights under attack from the executive, his tenure has thus far been marked by one letdown after another.
Thierry Deronne is a Belgian-born filmmaker who has long accompanied working-class and campesino struggles in Latin America. He talks about the philosophy driving the community media movement and the future of popular communication, and specifically his current project: Hugo Chávez Popular Cinema and Theatre School.
In past wars, Israel was able to establish buffer or security zones inside enemy territory. But Tel Aviv’s adversaries have flipped the map today, forcing the occupation state to evacuate its own borders — perhaps permanently.
In 2015, Yemen began a war in defense of its sovereignty that was being threatened by an interventionist alliance led by Saudi Arabia. 400,000 Yemini people died in the country’s struggle to maintain its independence. A country considered the poorest in Western Asia successfully defeated a coalition made up of some of the richest countries on the planet.
The shrine in Ayodhya will be a symbol of religious triumphalism, a sign that this is becoming ever more a Hindu-first country.
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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