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September 25, 1975. The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi had called for a strike...

Poet Ho Chi Minh,
who punches from Vietnam
to all humanity.
No cannon will erase
the furrow of your rice ...

‘प्रबीर एक अद्वितीय और प्रतिबद्ध इंसान हैं’ — ...

Prabir Purkayastha is in Jail

On 3 October 2023, Prabir Purkayastha, the editor of Newsclick, was arrested by the Delhi Police. He has been in prison ever since then. Imprisonment is familiar to Prabir. In August 1975, three mo

LEFTWORD BOOKS

LeftWord Books is a New Delhi-based publishing house that seeks to reflect the views of the left in India and South Asia. We publish critical and analytical works on a range of subjects, and pay special attention to works on Marxist theory. We project the interests of the working people and movements for social transformation.

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14.12.2023 @ #PCIConversations

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06.12.2023 @ वाम विमर्श: अयोध्या का हाल

वाम प्रकाशन के इस आयोजन में आप सब सादर आमंत्रित हैं।

कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह स� ...

Body on the Barricades

Brahma Prakash

INR 260.00

‘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 l...

Body on the Barricades

Brahma Prakash

INR 260

Untouchable Freedom

Vijay Prashad

INR 450

“This book treats the Balmikis, a marginalized community, as a conscious entity, and highlights their agency.” – Dr Vaishali, historian

“Acute social and political observations on a...

What is to be Done?

V.I. Lenin

INR 350

‘Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.’ — Lenin

V.I. Lenin (1870–1924) took forward Marxist theory and practice in critical areas. Imperialism,...

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An Education for Rita
Brinda Karat

INR 350

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 ...
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Knowledge as Commons
Prabir Purkayastha

INR 335

Do the needs of society drive science and technology? Or do developments in science and technology provide the motor force of history? Has this relationship changed over time? Knowledge as Commons ...
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Keeping Up the Good Fight
Prabir Purkayastha

INR 300

September 25, 1975. The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi had called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected councillor of the studen...
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The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh

INR 450

“The state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We want to snatch and handle it to utilize it for the consummation of...
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Chile's Allende
Victor Figueroa Clark

INR 500

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 citiz...
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Víctor Jara
Joan Jara

INR 500

“As long as we sing his songs, as long as his courage can inspire us to greater courage, Víctor Jara will never die.” – Pete Seeger

“An intensely moving account. A love story — a...
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Knowledge as Commons
Prabir Purkayastha

INR 395

Do the needs of society drive science and technology? Or do developments in science and technology provide the motor force of history? Has this relationship changed over time? Knowledge as Commons ...
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Body on the Barricades
Brahma Prakash

INR 325

‘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 l...
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Selected Writings
Ruth First

INR 150

Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa.

Until her assassinat...
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Labouring Lives
Archana Aggarwal

INR 275

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 ...
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The Political Marx
Aijaz Ahmad, Vijay Prashad

INR 175

For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx’s own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as...
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Our Own Path to Socialism
Vijay Prashad, Hugo Chavez

INR 225

Hugo Chávez’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 for our own people. The Bolivarian Revolution b...
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Education or Exclusion?

INR 300

The BJP-led Narendra Modi government announced a new National Education Policy (NEP) in July 2020. Neither knowledge production nor enhancing the democratic ethos find a place in the objectives of ...
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HINDI BOOKS

सावित्रीबाई फुले

Kanak Lata

INR 225.00

भारत में वंचित तबक़े के लिए औपचारिक स्कूली शिक्षा की शुरुआत फुले दंपति (साव...
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सावित्रीबाई फुले
Kanak Lata

INR 225

भारत में वंचित तबक़े के लिए औपचारिक स्कूली शिक्षा की शुरुआत फुले दंपति (साव...
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नया राजा नये क़िस्से
Anoop Mani Tripathi

INR 225

‘तो ऐसा करो! राजधानी के सभी गधों को पकड़ कर ज़िलाबदर कर दो!’ राजा ने अपना दूसर�...
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अमीरों का मसीहा कोई नहीं
Vishnu Nagar

INR 200

“साहबान, मेरी रीढ़ की हड्डी गुम है। किसी को मिले तो बता देना। वैसे न मिले तो �...
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साहित्य, कला और सिनेमा
Jawarimal Parakh

INR 750

यह किताब साहित्यिक कृतियों के सिनेमाई रूपांतरण के सैद्धांतिक पक्षों पर प्...
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ओट्टम और अन्य नाटक
Sapan Saran

INR 175

‘सपन सारन के नाटक पढ़ना ज़िंदगी को नई नज़र से देखना है। सपन के पास समाज मनोव�...
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ज़ीरो माइल अयोध्या
Krishna Pratap Singh

INR 250

ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
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कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन
Premchand

INR 250

ऐसे समय जब कहा जा रहा है कि हिंदू और मुस्लिम दो अलग-अलग संसार हैं, ये कहानिया�...
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ज़ीरो माइल अलीगढ़
Jaisingh

INR 250

ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
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पुस्तक प्रदेश
Ibbar Rabbi

INR 250

इब्बार रब्बी की कहानियां संस्मरण और कहानी के बीच आवाजाही करती रहती हैं। उन�...
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ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ
Bhuvendra Tyagi

INR 250

ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
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भगत सिंह के साथी
Prabal Saran Agarwal, Harshvardhan Tripathi, Ankur Goswami

INR 295

जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन की चर्चा होती है, भगत सिंह का ना...
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मुसाफ़िर की डायरी
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

INR 450

उन दिनों दुनिया पर दूसरे महायुद्ध का ख़तरा मंडरा रहा था। चौबीस साल का एक नौ�...
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मेरी आवाज़ सुनो
Justice K. Chandru

INR 250

यह किताब कुछ बहादुर महिलाओं के बारे में है।

बहादुर इसलिए कि हमारे देश मे�...
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अपनों के बीच अजनबी
Farid Khan

INR 225

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...
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जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे
Atul Tiwari

INR 150

जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो व...
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ज़ीरो माइल पटना
Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
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. . . AND FROM THE INDIE PRESSES

Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India

Gail Omvedt

INR 1,495.00

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Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India
Gail Omvedt

INR 1,495

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Undoing Gender
Judith Butler

INR 995

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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body
DANI BURLISON

INR 695

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Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons First Edition
Silvia Federici

INR 675

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Jallianwala Bagh
Rakhshanda Jalil

INR 495

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Gandhi
Raosaheb Kasbe

INR 950

Capitalist production techniques have made hundreds of millions of people useless in the world today. She has no guardian. It is Gandhi's idea of fighting for human r...
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Yaari

INR 750

Yaari centres friendship in the politics of everyday life and well-being. Drawing on narratives of women and queer folx from South Asia, it reflects on friendship in ...
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A Part Apart
Ashok Gopal

INR 899

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human...
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Marx, Dead and Alive
Andy Merrifield

INR 350

Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnso...
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The Communist Manifesto

INR 675

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the original publication of The Communist Manifesto, this textbook offers a series of new interpretations...
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The Biofuels Deception
Okbazghi Yohannes

INR 695

There is by now no question among informed people that the Earth is undergoing severe climate change—soon to become catastrophic, if humans don’t take drastic mea...
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Teaching Critical Thinking
bell hooks

INR 895

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers...
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Teaching Community
bell hooks

INR 795

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a p...
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Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks

INR 895

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks – writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual – writes about a new kind of education, education as the practi...
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Karl Marx's Ecosocialism
Kohei Saito

INR 795
Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, M...
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