India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Life under capitalist rule is perilous. We can’t survive on our own, and we can’t rely on society to support us. The only way to end social suffering is to fight for a socialist society that supports all its members without exception.
Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”
Thirty years after his assassination, the need to fight for Niyogi’s goals and learn from his dedication is stronger than ever.
Police accusations against the journalist, if accepted by the courts, will push the boundaries of what is legally credible and rewrite free-speech guarantees.
In a state with a tortured history of anti-immigrant resentment, every policy decision can have potentially seismic effects. Assam needs a strong movement to counter the actions of a casteist, communal state.
We feminists of the 1960s-70s thought we might have won some of the battles against Patriarchy. However Patriarchy, in spite of all the movements, campaigns, and struggles, is not dead yet. The problems come from many directions, but they circle back to age-old conditions.
Until the U.S. steps forward and leads the effort, nuclear warfare will always be with us. And annihilation of the human species will always hover over us as a real, increasingly probable result.
Two of Gandhi’s most basic philosophical impulses were the dignity and responsibility of the individual; and the sacredness of life.
Noam Chomsky talks about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.
In this excerpt from ‘13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty’ (Seven Stories Press, 2015), Italian activist Mario Marazziti describes the worldwide campaign against capital punishment and lighting up Rome’s Coliseum to mark humanity’s progress.
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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