India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Donald Trump is portrayed as a “populist” committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires — including Elon Musk, the world’s richest oligarch — and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a consumption tax on the poor through tariffs.
‘Surrendering to Authoritarianism’: Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. US institutions are no exception. Also: ‘More Than 1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia—and the Number is Growing’.
‘Gaza Ceasefire Hangs by a Thread’: Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Gaza is an obvious step towards resuming its genocidal campaign, with full US support, risking regional conflagration. Also: ‘UN Report Says Israel “Consistently Breached International Law” in Assault on Gaza’; and: ‘Extent of Systematic Torture, Atrocities Endured by Palestinians in Israeli Prisons is Shocking’.
In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries.
Trump’s tariff plan exposes the perils of Canada’s dependency on the US and the price of integration within the American Empire. Adam King discusses these issues with Sam Gindin.
The Quran offers enduring principles of justice, freedom, and equality—principles designed to challenge oppression, dismantle systemic inequalities, and inspire collective upliftment. However, fully realizing these values demands a humanist and liberation theological lens—one that reads the Quran not just as a divine text but as a manifesto for social transformation.
“That Strong Spirit of Palestinian Emancipation”; “Hamas’s Strategic Survival Drives Israel Crazy”; and: “Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners”.
On June 8th, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan, ‘The International People’s Tribunal On The 1945 Atomic Bombings’ met with the goal of holding the United States accountable for the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal agents; and even the scent of gunpowder in the air.
Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor would be uttering these words: “I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu (…) and Yoav Gallant (…) bear criminal responsibility for (…) war crimes and crimes against humanity …”
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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