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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On top of the existing violence and institutional impediments, this year was particularly taxing for the defenders of land and environment as they had to face double whammy of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of neoliberalism using the pandemic as an excuse.
Not only did the imperialist system prove incapable of handling COVID-19 in a reasonable manner, it has also hastened the crumbling of the US empire. A chronology of 2020’s most salient events.
A discussion with Renata Porto Bugni to understand the impact of the pandemic on women and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Britain, led by a poseur whose self-esteem is akin to that of the equally repellent Trump, is in a parlous economic condition, and is suffering from social rupture of a viciousness unknown in recent history.
The Modi government has launched an aggressive campaign to push his pro-business neoliberal agenda at the expense of environmental laws.
While Covid-19 affected all areas of life, it was access to healthcare where it had the maximum effect. Inpatient admissions, outpatient care and operations saw declines of up to 40%. Declines were also seen in deliveries, antenatal care and immunisation of children.
In these Covid times, when online teaching has become rampant, we are being told that this development opens up new possibilities and realms for education. A critical examination of it, against our basic conception of education.
In neoliberalism, politics is no longer based on the democratic principle: “Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us”; only greed and self interest are the guides to social action. Are we now hearing the sounds of the “death struggle” of the idea of a liberal constitutional democracy?
In its latest report on Illicit Financial Flows in Africa, UNCTAD discloses that $88.6 billion from the continent go up in smoke every year. Not only must we ask questions about the size of these amounts, we must also wonder how this is at all possible.
At this juncture, between a global pandemic and the promise of a post-pandemic world, and between the administrations of Trump and Biden, we would be well-served by changing the economic paradigm from trickle down to build up.
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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