Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward 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.
Address: D-15, Ganesh Prasad, Naushir Bharucha Marg, Mumbai- 400007.
Help us increase our readership.
If you are enjoying reading Janata Weekly,
DO FORWARD THE WEEKLY MAIL to your mailing list and
invite people to subscribe for FREE!