India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
From 1907 struggle against British land revenue rates, to the ongoing agitation against the new farm laws, at least five newspapers were launched to provide platforms for those fighting for their rights.
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
NAPM condemns right-wing violence targeting Muslim community in MP; and also condemns the forced evictions in Sathyavani Muthu Nagar and Thangavel Street, Chennai in the midst of the pandemic.
A tribute to Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, which laid the groundwork for feminism.
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
Workers in Bangalore stormed an iPhone manufacturing plant on Dec 12, breaking windows and turning over vehicles. They demand their unpaid wages, as well as better wages and working conditions.
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?
In the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST), it is women who organize the day-to-day of the occupations, head up the assemblies in the territories, and participate in the negotiations for land. A discussion with two women leaders of the MTST.
If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
The UN Emissions Gap Report released on Dec 9 points out that the 1% richest people on the planet are responsible for emissions equal to that of the poorest 50% of the world’s population.
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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