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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In 2017 the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) issued a report on the conditions of Palestinians under Israeli rule, that concluded “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.”
On Rosa Parks Day, February 4th (her birthday date), let us commemorate the courageous action to defy racism that she undertook. It is only fitting that we celebrate her deed since public transportation became a civil right in the USA due to the struggle she led.
In this extract from Marxism and Women’s Liberation, the author discusses Marxism’s contribution to analysing women’s oppression.
An examination of the different ways bodily autonomy is denied in capitalist society, the role of social reproduction in the oppression of women, and the fight for our bodies globally.
Of all the tragic events of the 20th Century, the 1965-1966 campaign of mass killing in Indonesia is among the least known in the U.S. Researchers estimate that the Washington-backed Indonesian military and its civilian militias killed up to one million people.
The author initiates a wide-ranging debate on the great transition from capitalist destruction to a just and sustainable future.
Abuses and threats to his life were hurled at him, but he did not flinch from putting forth the evidentiary and the analytical positions that emerged from his in-depth studies.
The multiple dimensions of Kamal Morarka’s persona — from parliamentarian and minister, through industrialist and philanthropist, to activist and concerned citizen — made for an unusual life in our times.
Quite contrary to what many had anticipated, the state crackdown on farmers’ leaders, together with attacks by BJP goons, has breathed a new life into the agitation. Farmers are joining the agitation in growing numbers.
Over the last two decades, international agencies and the Indian government have been preparing the ground for takeover of farmer lands by corporate houses. Towards this end, as the first step, the government is trying to establish a system of ‘conclusive titling’ of all land in the country.
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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