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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Women and girls, an ILO study shows, carry out three quarters of the unpaid care work that is required to maintain families and society. If those who perform unpaid care work received the minimum wage in their respective countries, the wage bill would amount to $11 trillion, 15% of global GDP.
Recent incidents in Indore and Ajmer explain why it is urgent for the global community to tell the Indian government that its actions are being watched and it will be held accountable according to international norms which all civilised countries have for their attitude towards minorities.
On August 26, as a part of a new national strike, thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country in rejection of a new tax reform bill promoted by the national government and in support of the ten bills presented by different sectors last month.
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
Article by Albert Einstein, the world-famous physicist, originally published in the inaugural issue of the renowned US socialist magazine, ‘Monthly Review’ (May 1949), in which he expresses his views on the subject of socialism.
Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers are technically volunteers and therefore paid an honorarium below the minimum wage, but actually they are essential workers, who managed the State’s on-ground pandemic response. Also: 1.93 lakh posts of Anganwadi workers lying vacant across country.
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
Human trafficking is big business, the third biggest in the world after drugs and arms trafficking, and the fastest-growing activity of international criminal organizations. Its roots lie in the global neoliberal system.
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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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