India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Over the last few years, there is ample material in public domain questioning the sanctity of India’s electoral process mainly due to the severe flaws in EVM voting and VVPAT counting. The EC has ignored most.
This three-pronged assault will result in a humanitarian crisis as large as the one in Assam. In a population of 3.3 crore in Assam, 1.3 crore have been impoverished and socially disbarred by being interminably denied citizenship.
The perilous heating of this planet is the topic that will, sooner or later, leave all others in the dust. New cold wars and hot wars will make no sense whatsoever in such a future. Either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust!
The People’s Union for Civil Liberates (PUCL), India’s premier human rights organisation, has said that the Supreme Court judgement, upholding reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), strikes at the “basic structure of the Constitution”.
The socio-legal system is currently designed to fail victims of domestic abuse, thanks to dilution of laws like section 498A IPC, patriarchal and misogynistic application of the law, judicial denial of the seriousness of domestic violence, crimes against women, and low employment among women.
After the midterm elections in the US, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.
A malicious campaign against the peerless monarch has been going full throttle since the ascension to power of the Hindutva-propelled BJP government in New Delhi. But interestingly, the progressive policies of Akbar are detested heavily in neighbouring Pakistan also.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians marched in Sao Paulo Saturday in a final show of support for former president Lula da Silva before Sunday’s election. Also: It’s official: Lula has won. He has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the next president of Brazil.
India today, is enveloped in darkness! As the nation embroils itself from one issue to another, the burden is felt by the ordinary citizen, as never before and in more ways than one. In these dark times, the people of India cry out in one voice, from the depths of their being “Let there be Light”!
Food prices are rising due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates. In addition, agribusiness forms are using this crisis as an opportunity to promote GE technologies.
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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