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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
It can unequivocally be asserted that the Palestinian resistance scored a major victory, arguably unprecedented in its proud history. This is the first time that Israel has been forced to accept that the rules of the game have changed, likely forever.
May 23, 2021, is the 34th anniversary of the killing of 72 Muslims in Meerut’s Maliana village, allegedly by the PAC. The trial has been going on for over 3 decades, there has been no justice yet. Also, an article on the Hashimpura massacre a day earlier.
1,000 + activists, academics, concerned citizens from 20+ states in India and across the globe write to Chief Minister Chhattisgarh. Call for immediate release of Hidme Markam and end state excesses on Adivasis in Bastar.
Israelis think that their continued assaults on the Palestinians—uprooting their orchards, razing their villages, imprisoning and killing them—will make the Palestinians simply throw up their hands and go away. But that will never happen. The Palestinians will win by their simple resolve to stay where they are.
Our leaders appear to have succeeded in polarising society to such an extent that their electoral victories are almost guaranteed. Then, why are they going with ever-increasing gusto for crimes that target Muslims?
A new alliance called the ‘Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations’ has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners.
Pakistan rights campaigners have taken exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks on the causes of sexual violence and rape, terming them factually incorrect, insensitive and dangerous.
For Fr Stan, the order of the judge rejecting his bail plea was indeed the ‘ides of March’; however, it is not a closed chapter, the struggle for justice and truth will continue relentlessly. One day with Fr Stan, we will certainly say we have overcome for ‘Satyameva Jayate!’
Significant developments are underway in Turkey. Most ominously, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved toward the banning of one of the country’s main opposition parties, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
Every year, on the birth anniversary of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia (23 March), demands are made to the government for posthumous conferment of Bharat Ratna on Dr. Lohia. However, it would be an injustice to Lohia’s legacy if the government/ ruling class indeed conferred Bharat Ratna on Lohia.
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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