India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Socialists should be clear that the cause of the climate crisis is the capitalist system and its incessant drive to accumulate profits, and that the only way to solve the crisis is to struggle for a socialist world where human need, including a sustainable relation to nature, comes before private greed.
In 1978, at Alma-Ata (USSR), countries pledged to enhance public health infrastructure. However, they not only failed to do, they also systematically undermined it by extensively privatising health care. That is one reason why the capitalist states have not been able to handle the corona crisis.
There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough!
The noted academic and journalist says India has transformed into an illiberal, majoritarian and intolerant country with an authoritarian regime under Narendra Modi.
A review of John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century. This “powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people,” argues that “the huge low wage proletariat that has emerged in the last 30 years is the key to the profits of imperialism.”
The urban employment guarantee scheme is not without its problems, but it offers a template to help the poor earn and build greener, sustainable cities.
Latest CMIE data shows that share of families with two members working has fallen drastically. This means people are surviving on much less income.
2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers partaking in union votes and strike actions.
The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major popular electoral victories in Chile, Honduras, and Peru.
On 22 December, a broad coalition of more than 40 organisations vociferously demanded that the Bill be withdrawn as the Government of Karnataka is trampling upon the constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, privacy and dignity.
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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