India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
German socialist Clara Zetkin founded International Women’s Day to acknowledge working women’s contribution to the struggle against capitalism. It’s no wonder that Clara Zetkin’s legacy has been erased by the corporate sponsorship of #IWD.
It has not been easy for Savitribai and Fatima, for Nagarathna and Bilkis and for several other women who have dared the system and worked towards change! These are women who have risen against all odds, ploughed the lonely path and courageously decided to embrace equity.
When it comes to Indian women, let us not take away the agency of the living – and let them exercise choice – and the dignity of the dead – those whom the system failed.
The latest official labour force survey shows 20% to 50% gap between the earnings of men and women.
Perhaps we Indians may learn from the example of our beloved Israelis, and wake up to the unabashedly voiced desire to curtail the highest judiciary.
The benefits that accrue from the accident of my birth in an upper caste household are emotional, psychological, social, and economic.
There are claims that the roots of democratic institutions can be found in ancient India. Studies have shown that such institutions existed not only in India but also in other parts of the world. No one society can claim it was the ‘mother’.
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a historic event. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of the 21st century.
This is not about the survival of a free press. There is no longer a free press. The paramount issue is justice and our most precious human right: to be free.
The great British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) contemplated the question of what could be the measure of a life well lived in this wonderful short essay penned in his eighty-first year.
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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