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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The economy faces stagflation. The government has announced some steps, but much more needs to be done. Also: “The Indian Economy Is Heading for a Stationary State”: The economy has shown no growth at all over the two year period.
Every book that is written on the past by an aspiring historian is not history. History is a specialised discipline that wends a careful and delicate way through the maze of what happened.
CEA report states that 202 thermal power plants generated 232.56 MT of ash in 2020-21. Apart from flooding caused by overflow of fly ash slurry, the toxic waste, which is a by-product of coal combustion process, is also known to cause large-scale air pollution.
Interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who is serving his fifth consecutive term in office. In addition to being an active campaigner for the republic and full sovereignty, Gonsalves is a renowned intellectual figure.
The Marcos victory was largely a democratic outcome in the narrow electoral sense. The challenge for progressives is to understand why a runaway majority of the Philippine electorate voted to bring an unrepentant, thieving family back to power after 36 years.
We are poor and far from powerful centres of economic and political decision-making. But, we live in the centre of the most important battles—fought from our smallest trenches, communities, neighbourhoods, cities, jungles and forests.
Over 20 progressive news outlets, including TeleSUR TV and Pan African TV, have signed a statement condemning the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
In India, the farmers organised the world’s largest strike in history; at Amazon, the workers are fiercely resisting its exploitation; in Latin America, the people are rallying to support progressive political leaders. But it’s not enough to just resist. We have to build a new world brimming with life, and powered by popular sovereignty.
The electricity reform promoted by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seeks to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. Also: 90% the voters back AMLO to remain in office until the end of his term.
The city of Bucha, in Ukraine, has recently come to the attention of Western corporate media, for the purpose of criminalizing Russia for the supposed assassination of 300 civilians. However, the lack of evidence for these claims brings into doubt any allegations that the Russian military was involved.
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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