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The August 1971 protest launched by the Jan Sangh in Delhi, when Modi courted arrest, was to protest the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship – a treaty which gave India the diplomatic cover needed to wage war against Pakistan later that year.
N.S. Vinodh’s ‘A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain’ is about a man who played an important – if supporting – role in the independence struggle.
Palestinians affirm, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
Socialist historian Sandra Bloodworth commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Commune, retelling the breathtaking events as well as providing an assessment of their political significance.
On March 19 ten years ago, the Obama administration launched air strikes over Libya under the banner of NATO, which culminated in the killing of Libya’s long-time ruler Muammar Qaddafi and destroyed the wealthiest, healthiest and happiest nation in Africa.
Despite all of the inevitable contradictions, China stands out in the present planetary emergency in having a leadership that has advanced an ambitious vision of ecological civilization with the strong support of the Chinese population, incorporating this directly into its five-year plans.
Dr. Swaiman Singh, a cardiologist from the US, put his career on hold to come to Delhi border and provide free medical services to farmers protesting in India. He came down for a week last December, and has stayed on.
The resignation of top academics from Ashoka University is reflective of the current atmosphere where centres of education that encourage us to question beliefs and prejudices pose a direct threat to the Hindutva state.
The Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, can be considered the epicenter of bombing as an instrument of war. But with North Korea too developing nuclear capability, this potential equalization puts Korea at the center of the murderous history of bombing.
The author analyses the utility of the genre for both reactionary and progressive politics.
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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