India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Why this call? People of India today face the onslaught on the basic values of the Constitution from a regime that is determined to impose a socio-political system of Hindutva chauvinism on the multicultural, multi-religious, multilingual society thus violating the constitutional commitment to equality of all citizens.
Discussions to drop a paper on Ambedkar and references to caste and feminism are the latest steps in an effort to turn public educational institutes into training centre for Hindutva.
The Indian government has kept its eye on billions in revenue from the polluting petrochemical industry while making half-hearted measures to curb plastic use.
A discussion with Wei Ling Chua, a reputed author, on his forecast for the Chinese economy, and his response to the article Why China Can’t Pull the World Out of a New Great Depression” by strategic risk consultant F. William Engdahl.
One and a half degrees is dead. The world will blow past that milestone in the next year. At least, that’s what climate scientist James Hansen and his collaborators at Columbia University’s Earth Institute predicted in January.
‘Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island’ is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner. It brilliantly connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
Born in 1984 and about to turn 40 in 2024, the MST has known, since its inception, that government is like beans, it only works in a pressure cooker.
The movement against attacks on pension is showing great resilience, but needs to move towards general strikes in order to win.
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” writes Carson.
The military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it’s consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm. Also: “US Makes Up c 40% of Global Military Spending, 10x Russia, 3x China”.
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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