India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Indian and Pakistani constitutions provide equality for all, yet the rights of citizens from different religious groups in matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession, depend on religious identity.
Engels’ sharp critique of the patriarchal family and the institution of marriage remains extremely powerful today.
On this day – November 25 – working class women across the world raise their voices against patriarchal violence, exploitation and oppression.
This, despite several Supreme Court observations on a person’s right to choice as elucidated in the Constitution; also: HC Overturns ‘Conversion Only for Marriage’ Judgment Yogi had Cited to Justify ‘Love Jihad’ Law.
An exception to Section 375 of IPC (that defines rape) specifically excludes acts of sexual violence in marriage from the ambit of rape. This exception is violative of the fundamental rights of equality, dignity and privacy of women.
Short story.
Review of Ashley Bohrer’s book, “Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism”.
Last week’s ruling in the Constitutional Court placing further restrictions on abortion access in Poland sent a shockwave through society and brought tens of thousands on to the streets in protest.
Odisha’s Jharsuguda is witnessing massive protests owing to rampant rampant issues of displacement and loss of livelihoods, along with pollution.
Crimes against all women are on a rise but Dalit women suffer the double discrimination of gender and caste. Across India, cases of rape against SC women increased by 37%, and of assault by 20%, over the four years to 2019.
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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