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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The British monarchy is a vestige of tyranny, a grand monument to hierarchy and plunder. As Irish socialist James Connolly wrote in 1911, the royals are for the other despots of society, the capitalists and landlords — not for the working class.
A scientific vision of development for all Indians informed the quest for independence. The present regime deploys superstition and politics based on fear to aid just a select few.
A look at the direction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the new French left after their electoral breakthrough earlier in the year.
There is a fundamental interconnection between women’s struggle and class struggle. All those women’s struggles which build collective confidence among women are important to building class consciousness; and all those class struggles which seek to build the social and cultural autonomy of the working class are necessarily linked to the struggle for women’s liberation.
Marx considered “primitive accumulation” to be a misleading and erroneous concept. Understanding what he actually wrote shines light on two essential Marxist concepts: exploitation and expropriation.
‘Nazi Billionaires’, a new book by Bloomberg journalist David de Jong, reminds us who runs Germany: the grandchildren of war criminals.
We can’t fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us
Guru Nanak lived and treaded this world for seven decades from 1469 to 1539 AD. In the course of his life and travels, he touched upon many aspects of the knowledge and practices prevalent then, the ubiquitous religious bigotry and a society fragmented and fractured along caste and gender lines.
After decades of its dictatorship-era constitution drastically reducing the rights of workers, women, and others, a new constitution is on the way in Chile. The draft paves the way for collective labor rights, public health care, and much more.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Constitution Amendments that led to the three-tier Panchayati Raj structures. The 73rd Amendment further led to legislation for its extension into tribal areas and the Forest Rights Act. On how have these legislations fared over the past 30 years.
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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