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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
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 demand for reservations is conducted in a moral and political vacuum – there is absolutely no debate, no discussion and no political consensus on the need for equalising life chances.
Indians are already among the most overworked workers globally. Despite their long hours, Indian workers are not making much money. India had the lowest statutory minimum wage of any country in the Asia Pacific region, except for Bangladesh as of 2019.
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.
Household incomes in india are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock; How daily wage workers in india suffered in the lockdown; COVID-19 laid bare the exploitation that domestic workers face; Lockdown fallout: Distress stalks garment workers in Ludhiana.
In this part, we examine the budget allocations for two more social sectors: nutrition schemes, including food subsidy, and pensions.
A foreshadowing in fiction of the role chosen by women in the farmers’ protest.
Despite a vicious crackdown that has left scores dead, the Burmese people continue their struggle against the coup. Interview with three female garment workers who helped organize another general strike this week. Also: the Burmese people need to be supported by people across the world.
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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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