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The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, introduces us to four pillars for whom the 2024–25 interim budget is designed: the poor, women, youth and farmers. However, the budgetary allocations do not reflect this commitment. Comments on the Interim Budget by several authors.
Last year, 2023, marked the 125th birth anniversary of epoch-defining German playwright and practitioner Bertolt Brecht. His words carry a sense of immediacy for us, so striking are the parallels between Nazi Germany and present-day India.
“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
The general strike against the austerity measures and the Omnibus Law was strongly felt throughout Argentina yesterday. Although the mobilization had its epicenter in the capital, in the main cities of the interior, there were massive protests as well. A million and a half people filled the streets of the country.
After October 7, verbal and physical assaults against Muslims in the United States have risen to levels not seen since 9/11. Censorship of pro-Palestinian views has also skyrocketed, and many are afraid not just for their physical safety but also their livelihoods.
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.
To paraphrase the great Du Bois: This is not the United States gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is the United States; this is the real soul of empire — naked, drenched in blood, built by blood money; honest, for once.
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.
As a new government takes office despite repeated attempts to undermine its ascent, Indigenous leaders reflect on the indefinite national strike in defense of democracy and the struggles that still lie ahead.
Tagore’s words, “Be on watch, India” and asking people “to stand before the proud and the powerful/ With your white robe of simpleness”, are of greater relevance today, when the arrival of 2024 is being celebrated, than when he composed those words to mark the advent of the year 1900.
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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