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Nehal Ahmed's 'Nothing Will Be Forgotten' receives Muzaffar Ahmad Memorial Award, 2022

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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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Kollontai 150

Alexandra Kollontai

INR 195.00

Alexandra Kollontai (31 March 1872–9 March 1952) was a communist revolutionary; the first woman in the world to form part of a government since the creation of modern states; an organizer of the ...

Kollontai 150

Alexandra Kollontai

INR 195

When Farmers Stood Up

Ashok Dhawale

INR 375

In the summer of 2020, the Narendra Modi government pushed through three anti-farmer, pro-corporate bills in parliament. This came after decades of cuts in subsidies and price supports to the farme...

Jai Bhim

Justice K. Chandru

INR 195

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 ...

Farmers on the Move

Ajit Navale

INR 375

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 farme...

Kerala

T.M. Thomas Isaac

INR 250

‘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 st...

The 1921 Uprising in Malabar

INR 175

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. Th...

Nothing Will Be Forgotten

Nehal Ahmed

INR 250

‘Nehal Ahmed’s book is a student participant’s passionate account of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The university resistance led by Jamia Millia Islamia and the great Sh...

Signs

Manik Bandyopadhyay

INR 250

Signs (Chinha), written in 1946, was Manik Bandyopadhyay’s fifteenth novel, and is something of a hidden gem of Bengali literature.

The novel is set in the mass uprisings that Ca...

They Have Forgotten Us

Peter Mertens

INR 250

Stars are only visible in the dark. During the coronavirus crisis, it became suddenly dark. Very dark. And everyone could see the stars shining: the heroes of the coronavirus, the working class. Th...

Gramsci's Thought

E.M.S. Namboodiripad, P. Govinda Pillai

INR 195

In the early 1990s, E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909–1998) came across the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937). Gramsci, one of the most significant communist theorists of his time, had s...

People's Planning

T.M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke

INR 595

In 1996, the state of Kerala launched possibly the world’s most extensive and successful experiment in decentralization. The campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala’s 30 million people and ...

From Volga to Ganga

Rahul Sankrityayan

INR 595

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was a polymath and polyglot. A pioneering explorer-traveller, he is known not only for his travelogues but also for contributions to history, philosophy, memoir-wri...

Listen to My Case!

Justice K. Chandru

INR 195

Justice K. Chandru, former judge of the Madras High Court, heard many cases in his illustrious career and passed landmark judgments on them – over 54,000 in fact. Among these are rulings on commo...

Political Journeys in Health

INR 495

Amit Sengupta (1958–2018) believed the job of a doctor was not simply to treat a sick individual, but to build a society in which health is a fundamental right of all citizens. In these times of ...

This Fire Never Dies

Fréderike Geerdink

INR 495

Fréderike Geerdink’s This Fire Never Dies is a gripping account of her year spent with the Kurdish political and guerrilla group, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). She bravely goes ...

Washington Bullets

Vijay Prashad

INR 250

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperial...

जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे

Atul Tiwari

INR 150.00

जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो व...

जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे

Atul Tiwari

INR 150

ज़ीरो माइल पटना

Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

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

कितने यातना शिविर

INR 250

समाज के कमज़ोर व्यक्ति के संघर्ष का चित्रण करती मार्मिक कहानियाँ।
क़ब्र �...

कँटीले तार की तरह

INR 225

‘ये कविताएँ सामाजिक रूप से सजग हैं। विडंबनाओं, विषमताओं की सही पहचान करती ह...

तख़्तापलट

Vijay Prashad, Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

तख़्तापलट मार्क्सवादी पत्रकारिता और इतिहास लेखन की शानदार परंपरा में ल�...

कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

Pranjal

INR 95

आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार ऐसा हुआ कि लाखों के हुजूम ने राजधानी...

वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह

Archana Prasad

INR 195

सन् 1945 में महाराष्ट्र के ठाणे में एक बड़े विद्रोह की शुरुआत हुई। यह था – वारली...

हल्ला बोल

Sudhanva Deshpande

INR 325

यह मौत की कहानी नहीं है। यह ज़िंदगी की कहानी है। एक सादालौह इंसान की दमकती, हस...

जाति से जंग

Pranjal

INR 100

राज्य और उसके क़ानून की निगाह में सभी नागरिकों की समानता का आदर्श स्थापित कर...

मोदीनामा

Subhash Gatade

INR 195

मई 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में हिंदुत्ववादी दक्षिणपंथी भारतीय जनता �...

कार्ल मार्क्स

Shankar Dayal Tiwari

INR 175

मार्क्सवाद एक ऐसी विचारधारा है जो सिर्फ दुनिया का विश्लेषण ही नहीं करती बल�...

मंडल कमीशन

Satyendra PS

INR 350

भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...

संविधान की सिपाही

Teesta Setalvad

INR 250

तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ कौन हैं?

हिंदुत्ववादी ताकतों के लिए वो देश के विकास में ए�...

Philosophical Notebooks

V.I. Lenin

INR 995.00

The span of the Philosophical Notebooks is from 1895-1911. Russia already had a Revolution in 1905. These Notebooks show many a revolutions had taken place in the hea...

Philosophical Notebooks

V.I. Lenin

INR 995

The span of the Philosophical Notebooks is from 1895-1911. Russia already had a Revolution in 1905. These Notebooks show many a revolutions had taken place in the hea...

हिन्दी उपन्यासों में दलित वर्ग

Kusum Meghwal

INR 225

'हिन्दी उपन्यासों में दलित वर्ग' प्रसिद्ध विदूषी एवं चिंतक मान�...

Literature, Philosophy, Political Theory

Rustam Singh

INR 695

This book is a masterly meditation on love, loss, separation, death, time, writing, being, the self and the other and on the controversial relation between humans and...

Tryst with Strong Leader Populism

P. Raman

INR 695

Tryst with Strong Leader Populism offers a rewarding read for those yearn to understand the Modi government's famed mystique, its working style, ac...

Statues of Clay

Murzban Jal

INR 325

When statues are erected, both philosophy and humanity die. Statues signify the death of reason and humanity. Thus when Stalin erected statues of Lenin after mummifyi...

वाम दलों की राजनितिक जड़ता

Akshay Kumar

INR 495

यह पुस्तक वाम दलों की राजनितिक कार्यवाइयों के जमीनी अध्ययन का �...

Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?

Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba

INR 450

In the afternoon of 9th May 2014, a posse of policemen stopped a car in Delhi and pulled out a wheelchair-bound man on his way home from work. He was then flown to Na...

Scripting Defiance

Sumangala Damodaran, Ari Sitas, Wiebke Keim, Nicos Trimikiniotis, Amrita Pande

INR 1,650

This second volume from the authors of Gauging and Engaging Deviance (along with several others) is positioned between the ideas of deviance and defiance, and attempt...

मृत्यु-कथा

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

INR 295

मृत्यु-कथा - पिछले एक दशक से आशुतोष भारद्वाज माओवादियों और भारत�...

Untold stories of IPTA & Niranjan Sen

INR 300

The people's theatre movement took birth from the fire of revolutionary mass-movement and I.P.T.A.came into existence to build and develop the people's theatre moveme...

Habib Tanvir

INR 250

It is appropriate that SAHMAT should take the lead in honouring the memory of Habib Tanvir. Tanvir was not only among the most significant cultural figures of modern ...

रेत समाधि

Geetanjali Shree

INR 450

अस्सी की होने चली दादी ने विधवा होकर परिवार से पीठ कर खटिया पकड़...

Religion and Society

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

INR 295

This book consists of eight "Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghose Lectures for 1981" delivered by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya. The series had been instituted by Rai Bahadur G.C. ...

Revolutionary Pasts

ALI RAZA

INR 995

In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies and anti-colonial struggles of Indian rev...

We, the Rejected People of India

Dr. Sunil Abhiman Awachar

INR 299

We, the Rejected People of India is an anthology of Marathi Dalit poems in which a dilemma of being a Dalit in the elite spaces is very much visible. Read them, and you will have a differe...

The Path of the Parivar

Mukul Dube

INR 300

After going through Mukul Dube thoughtful work, one wonders why it does not sink into the minds of the aggressive separatists and destroyers of the unity of this great country that there is not the...

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