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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Successive governments with a neoliberal agenda have not been able to roll-back nationalization, even after thirty years. That fortuitous ‘failure’ shows that the criticism of public ownership of banking is misplaced, and that neoliberal policies have lost their legitimacy.
Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years).
The word “exploitation” is special for Socialists. It’s the key to the Socialist argument that a revolution to end oppression won’t just require a change in the political system, but a deep transformation in the way we work.
The years of high growth have done little to improve a dismal employment picture, and the conditions of work only deteriorated after those heady growth days came to end. The jobs crisis is real. Also: The jobless rate crossed 8% yet again.
Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, because of post-colonial monetary arrangements imposed on these countries by France, which have allowed for their continual exploitation by France.
Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals. A 2021 study found that the density of active health workforce in India is just a little over one-fourth of the WHO’s recommended threshold of 44.5 skilled health workers per 10,000 population.
The better alternative would be to invest in upgrading BEST and the suburban train system.
The 19th century rebellion actually began as a movement against exploitation by Indian ‘upper’ caste zamindars, moneylenders, merchants and police officials who had come to dominate the economic sphere of Santhal life.
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
FAO’s latest report found world hunger rising. However, India’s data on food insecurity is missing. Also, another article – “Global Hunger Numbers Jump; 2.3 Billion Are ‘Food Insecure”.
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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