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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Three journalists – Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel – are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: financial suffocation, censorship, threats and imprisonment, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. They illustrate the reality of “democracy” in the West.
It was a sad day for the Indian Republic as His Highness the President of India, Guardian of democratic-secular Indian Republic, not only glorified but also idolized Gita Press which publishes literature that propagates Sati and beating of women.
In the wake of the highly expected overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’, activists demonstrated their contempt in towns and cities across the country for the Supreme Court and its highly politicized conservative agenda in a National Day of Defiance.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple – Stucke explains why the current proposals to regulate the massive power of these four companies fall short of what’s needed to deal with the threat they pose not only to our individual wellbeing, but to the whole economy — and to democracy itself.
‘We hope and trust the Supreme Court will rise to the occasion and not let the citizens and the Constitution down at this critical juncture,’ write 12 prominent former judges and senior advocates. Also: Bharat Dogra – “Bulldozing Structures or Demolishing Democracy?”
May Day 2022 was a chance for Cuba to welcome tens of thousands of international guests to uphold the vision of International Workers’ Day and demonstrate that global solidarity with Cuba lives. The author too visited Cuba. Her inspiring report.
Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico have legalized or decriminalized abortion. Could Chile be next?
Cases like the one on the Gyanvapi Mosque show how the legal system is being used to promote disorder.
The Modi government has suddenly banned the export of wheat, after promoting it actively for two months. The debacle was not because of government incompetence, but the result of government’s neoliberal policy – withdrawal from procurement and the free hand given to private profiteers.
As we face the very real danger of losing our democracy, it is important for us to believe that we can and will pull ourselves back from calamity.
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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