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‘The assassins of Mahatma Gandhi were not worshipped during the 1975 Emergency. Boys and girls were free to choose partners of their choice. They were not persecuted in the name of ‘love jihad’.’
Rising temperatures, increased rain and less snowfall are changing the nature of snow in the Himalayas. One consequence is more frequent, more dangerous avalanches. Also: The tiny hilly state of Uttarakhand best explains the neglect of global climate change effects and poorly-planned development.
A letter by a teacher to his economics students on May Day: Workers are now in the situation they were in in the 19th century, before their struggles worldwide won various rights – to form unions, to enjoy job security, to earn minimum wages, and so on.
Various arms of the state, including Indian embassies and Raj Bhavans, were deployed to turn the 100th episode of Narendra Modi’s radio show into an occasion for competitive sycophancy.
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
Three poems, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day.
The mass uprising against French President Macron’s pension reforms has been historic. The undemocratic and repressive methods of the government have called into question the legitimacy of the Macron government and the French state. An interview with Sylvestre Jaffard about the dynamics.
In the context of Satya Pal Malik’s decision to reveal the “truth” about the Pulwama attack, the author discusses Malik’s decision to part ways with Modi – and says this is part of an old socialist ethos of immense ideological fluidity.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to be in central London for four days starting Friday to protest the government’s lack of action on the climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion (XR) has called it The Big One, and the idea is to surround parliament to demand ‘systemic change’.
In July 2022, Karnataka’s sanitation workers, known as pourakarmikas, went on strike, across the entire state, to demand that all their positions be turned into permanent government jobs. They won a significant victory.
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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