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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill personifies “Har haath ko kaam do, kaam pe poora daam do, budhaape me aaram do, pension aur samman do” slogan of the Soochna Evam Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan.
According to experts, Delhi’s floods are an urgent indication to improve the city’s drainage systems. They also point to Delhi’s diminishing natural line of defence — its water bodies and wetlands — against such hazards, without which the river cannot drain its water naturally.
Disillusioned by neo-colonial and imperialist interference in their economies by the countries of the global North, many countries in the global South are now turning to China for loans. While China promises loans on better terms than the West, this relationship is very much to China’s advantage and highly open to criticism.
With the world’s attention focused on Ukraine, almost no one has noticed a devastating civil war in Africa.
‘A Poet Regrets’; ‘A Song from the Ruins’; ‘Migrants, COVID-19’.
“Rising corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy”, wrote IMF economists this June.
The World Bank says nearly 80% (560 million) of the 700 million people who were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to COVID policies were from India. Globally, extreme poverty levels increased by 9.3 per cent in 2020.
The IMF’s insistence that Sri Lanka reduce its domestic debt will only end up reducing the value of citizens’ savings tied up in retirement funds. Also: “Thousands Protest Sri Lankan Government’s Attacks on Welfare Subsidies”.
America’s War on Terror has killed and injured millions. This figure includes dead and wounded Americans too. Most Americans, however, have little awareness of the impact of these wars on the American people.
All the warning lights are flashing: there is a very significant economic slowdown without any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental damage; the drastic effects of the ecological crisis, especially as manifested by climate; a huge increase in public and private debt …
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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