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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A key spokesperson of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force, an urban commune in Venezuela, talks about the challenges of building an urban communal project and the organization’s vision of the future.
After the 1979 Sandinista victory, living conditions for women drastically improved. The subsequent period of neoliberal rule (1990-2006) did not completely overturn these achievements. Now, during the second Sandinista period (2007- today), the material and social position of women has again made giant steps forward.
Abolishing statehood for Jammu and Kashmir is the most savage attack on the federal principle ever undertaken by a prime minister.
The Centre recently came up with the idea of four Labour Codes on four broad categories: wages; industrial relations; social security; and occupational safety, health, and working conditions. This paper looks into the critical areas of the proposed Codes.
The sweeping disinvestment policy announced by the NDA government in December 2021 has put most of the national wealth on a distress sale. The few oligarchs who fund the political parties are waiting with their war chests of funds ready to buy the Central Public Sector Enterprises for a song.
The TekFog investigations show that the ruling party employs highly sophisticated tools to engage in hate speech and misinformation and in silencing its critics through online trolling, abuse, and threats.
As the potential antibiotic crisis gets worse, the solution is a nationalized pharmaceutical industry fully under public control. Under such a system, money from profitable drugs could simply be channeled to less profitable things like vaccines, antibiotics, and neglected tropical diseases.
Following the collapse of the ruling coalition in Portugal, in the subsequent national election held on 30 January, the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and Left Bloc (BE) lost half their elected positions, while the Socialist Party (PS) gained an absolute majority.
A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive.
A decade ago, a group of 20-year-old girls entered a Cathedral in Moscow to deliver a punk concert, imploring the Mother of God to rid the world of Putin. The group’s leaders were arrested and sent to a remote penal colony. An online interview with one of the leaders, Maria Alyokhina.
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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