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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
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?
In ‘Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth’, Audrey Truschke sifts popular imagination on the ruler’s personal and political life from historical realities.
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!’
Our founding fathers and mothers were far-sighted in matters of socio-economic justice, dignity of the individual and personal liberty. Today, dissent and disagreement are slowly being turned into sedition and a national security issue. In good time, human rights may well become human frights.
India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.
An exploration of the reconstruction of Haiti after 2010, focussed mainly on the the destruction of peasant farming, to the benefit of western corporations and their allies in Haiti.
The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war.
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).
The loss of soil organic matter and the corresponding massive carbon relocation to the atmosphere (as carbon dioxide) constitutes the soil carbon rift. It ultimately leads to severe degradation of soil. It is estimated that about one-third of the world’s soils have become significantly degraded.
On Shahid Diwas, we need to ponder over the extent to which the ruling regime and society have moved away from Bhagat Singh’s ideals of equality and justice, communal harmony, respecting and advancing the rights of workers and farmers, resisting imperialism at all levels.
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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