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August 1975. The Emergency is barely two months old. A group of communists meet at night in a small room in Kamla Nagar in north Delhi. They sit on the floor around a flickering oil lamp. Thirteen of...

"Vijay Prashad has combined history, culture, and politics into a superbly researched and very clear work on the Arab Spring. . . . He has achieved a considerable feat, with a book that deserves to...

Ernesto ?Che? Guevara went on a trip through South America with a friend, Alberto Granado, in 1952. The account of that journey is contained in Che's classic The Motorcycle Diaries. Becoming Che is...

'This set of essays is a series of meditations on hatred, tenderness, grief, mourning, labour, resistance, social justice and the possibilities of meaning and solidarity, all viewed through the lens...

At 9.15 a.m. on September 11, 1973, minutes before US-backed military jets bombed the Presidential Palace, the President of Chile, Salvador Allende, took to the radio and addressed his fellow...

One of the most daring and dramatic events of India's Freedom Struggle. As seen from the eyes of its youngest participant. This is the stuff of legend. An event so dramatic, it has inspired two major...

"I am standing over the ruins of a house in Gaza City, peering at the horizon." These are the opening words of this book, which is being published while Gaza, where the author lives, is being...

Depoliticizing DevelopmentAuthor: John HarrissPublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 818749624XISBN-13: 9788187496243

In one of the most spectacular bankruptcies of our times, the gas and energy giant Enron went bust in late 2001. Many thought that for India, this is the end of the Enron story, that we can simply...

In March 2018, 40,000 farmers, overwhelmingly Adivasis, marched 182 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai, across hill and dale, in blistering heat. Mostly barefoot, some with bleeding feet, these farmers...

India Vs. RssAuthor: Pinarayi VijayanPublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 9380118694ISBN-13: 9789380118697

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was endowed with a sense of being outraged. For someone steeped in the learning and practice of law, the capacity to feel outraged does something very distinct, it becomes a...

In the summer of 1999, India fought off the Pakistani intrusion in Kargil. However, the end of the war does not mean the beginning of peace for people on either side of the border. Indeed, the war is...

'There is no alternative (TINA)' has been the slogan of the neoliberals ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The counter-slogan has been, 'Another world is possible'. Here is the story of the...

Collection of short stories by various authors.Author: Sa?aya KundanaPublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: HindiBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Clothes and cars are sparkling symbols of India's economic success, but few think about the men and women who toil ceaselessly on the sewing machines and assembly lines to produce them. Based on...

"A lot of people in the North are angry. Their ability to be wealthy-ish in their own community is gone, and they're finding it hard to make sense of that. People in the South are also finding it...

Jab tak Awaz bachi hai, tab tak ummid bachi hai.Is srinkhla ki alag-alag kadiyon me aap apne samay ke jwalant prashnon par lekhkon-kalakaaron -karyakartaaon ki bebaak tippaniyaan padhenge. Assam me...

In September 2003, Ariel Sharon became the first Israeli Prime Minister to step on Indian soil. Hindutva and Sharonism embraced each other, and these two Asian right-wing ideologies hoped to form...

Marx and Engels were first drawn into political militancy on the issue of the national unification of their native land Germany and the creation of a democratic republic there instead of monarchical...

"Ch?vez. That was their cry. Ch?vez. It was enough." Hugo Ch?vez's speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from our own histories and is...

On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris opened the door to utopia. Over 72 days, the workers built new institutions and advanced the practice of democracy. The forces of counterrevolution regrouped,...

RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour (Green School Series)Author: Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniPublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage:...

This book investigates the figure of Savarkar the author.Author: A. G. NooraniPublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Writings of 19th century radical opponent of the cast system in IndiaAuthor: G. P. DeshpandePublisher: LeftwordPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 298 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. This...

Between 1905 and 1949, the economic and political map of the world was altered decisively. The basis was created for the first experiements for establishing an egalitarian social order. Prolonged and...

The Madras Labour Union, founded in April 1918, is the first organized labour union in India. May Day was first celebrated in India in Napier's Park, Madras, in 1923. These are well-attested facts in...

The explicit adoption of a neoliberal reform programme in mid-1991 by the Indian government was the start of a period of intensive economic liberalization and changed attitudes towards government...