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The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal agents; and even the scent of gunpowder in the air.
The author discusses the role of capitalism in the H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, and its potential to mutate and become a pandemic like previous pandemics like COVID-19.
In this third part of our review of the economic situation of the country in early 2024, we take a look at India’s poverty levels, and the hunger and malnutrition situation in the country.
There is a sense of hope among Guatemala’s small labor movement of better days ahead following the election of President Bernardo Arévalo in 2023. While workers continue to face a dire situation, there is hope as the Arévalo administration is taking steps to improve working conditions in the country.
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.
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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