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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The deeper reasons behind the Sri Lankan crisis are Sinhalese Buddhist majoritarianism, authoritarianism of the Gotabaya regime, violent targeting of minorities, brutal methods adopted to curb press freedom and deliberate curbing of the culture of scrutiny of public policies.
As journalists face punitive action for fact-checking and reporting hate speech by those allied with India’s ruling party, citizens are stepping into the breach, taking enormous risks to document rising instances of hate speech and hate crimes in the country.
Once again, Western ‘experts’ are predicting a financial crash in China. How much truth is there in this latest batch of critiques on China’s economic progress?
A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt’s ‘Climate Concerns’; and: The Many Bhopal Gas Tragedies Behind India’s Environmental Law Framework.
Indigenous and campesino communities turn to strikes, road blockages, and other confrontational tactics to reclaim their political agency.
The latest decision of the government to amend the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) so as to permit the political parties to accept donations more readily from foreign sources will open the floodgates to foreign entities influencing the integrity of India’s electoral processes.
The national strike in Ecuador, which ended on Thursday, June 30, was a show of the strength, organization and expression of the different progressive social forces in Ecuador. The struggle for the rights of peoples and nationalities in the country will continue in the future too.
Condemning “the barbaric and brutal beheading of a person in Udaipur for a social media post defending an obnoxious and reprehensible statement against Prophet Mohammed”, the statement urges the government “immediately act to stop hate mongering by all sections in all forms.”
The Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill marks a significant shift from the democratic thrust of the existing law to one that favours corporate control over biodiversity.
There is growing conviction that the nation, language, and religion are one. Hindi ideologues see only Hindi as authentically Indian and Hindu. The current rhetoric is reminiscent of the ‘Hindi-wallahs’ in the early 20th century.
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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