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China’s state-led economic development model has transformed it into what an EU think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production.
At least 142 schemes in the last 10 years have been launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With new schemes being announced every other day aimed at boosting Modi’s cult, there has been no evaluation or scrutiny of these programmes.
The article outlines four tobacco industry tactics that are being modeled across industries, such as the food and beverage sector, disproportionately affecting communities of color and exacerbating diet-related disease crises.
‘Everything Wrong with NITI Aayog’s Claim of 24.8 Crore Emerging Out of Poverty in 9 Years’; ‘Niti Aayog “Poverty” Stats: Serious Theoretical, Methodological, Empirical Questions’; ‘Three Charts: What the Modi Government Wants Us to Forget Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls’; ‘Hunger, Undernutrition Stalking India; Placed Worse Than Least Developed Nations’.
In a press statement, the Morcha has condemned the Modi government’s implementation of mandatory Aadhaar-based wage payments for MGNREGA workers from January 1, saying it will render 8.9 crore rural workers ‘ineligible’. Also: The Congress condemns this.
Education has led to high mobility, especially in the poorer Marathwada region, but opportunities remain few alongside dwindling incomes, shows a data analysis.
Looking for something positive to celebrate on New Year’s Eve? Here are ten inspiring victories of 2023.
Review of ‘The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism’ by Ian Angus: On how peasants fought to protect common land and resisted wage labor.
Argentina’s largest trade union confederation (CGT) has warned that it will not accept any rollback of rights or delays in bargaining negotiations. The union also rejected Milei’s threats concerning the paralysis of public works and the privatization of the railways and Aerolíneas Argentinas.
The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.
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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