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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Writers, activists, former high court judges, educationists, former civil servants and other eminent citizens have written a stern note of opposition to the Union government’s Rs 1,200-crore plan to refurbish the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad into a “world class” memorial.
For months on end, Indian peasants have tenaciously sustained mass protests at two very different sites – one at the borders of Delhi, the other at Silger, Chhattisgarh. While their issues look very different, at another level, the protests are linked. Also: ‘Chhattisgarh: Silger Protests Continue, Increase in Violence Hinder Access to Justice’.
Hale was charged in 2019 during the Trump administration after leaking the top secret documents to a reporter.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Annabhau’s writings are about the struggles and qualities of the marginalized sections of society. He wanted to fuse Ambedkarism and Marxism. It is regrettable that Hindi translations of his works are not available even 50 years after his death.
With the expanded unemployment rate at 43.2%, its highest level ever, it would be foolish to label everyone who participated in the “Free Zuma” protests and took food from major supermarkets as “irrational and criminal”.
Until we pressure lawmakers to repeal that 2001 AUMF and end the forever conflicts that have gone with it, America’s wars will ensure that our democracy and the rule of law as we know it will make any promises of peace, self-defense, and justice ring hollow.
Freedom of opinion and freedom of association are ‘the two lungs that are absolutely necessary for a man to breathe the oxygen of liberty’, he wrote.
In the USA, “Critical race theory” has, in recent times, become a catch-all phrase among legislators attempting to ban a wide array of teaching practices concerning race.
His life and philosophy is the anthem that calls to every human and tells them to keep hope, to find peace in solitude, to accept the anguish and embrace the distress, and to finally find a home in the ship of creativity, that aids this tormented mind to find its happy place in the confines of four walls.
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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