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“I am standing over the ruins of a house in Gaza City, peering at the horizon.” These are the opening words of th...

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

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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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28.10.2023 @ वाम विमर्श: बदल रहे शहर

वाम प्रकाशन के इस आयोजन में आप सब सादर आमंत्रित हैं

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Join Leftword Books and NewsClick for a discussion on Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology.

‘Prabir Purkayastha’s writing bridges science, technology ...

The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh

INR 450.00

“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...

The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh

INR 450

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Our Own Path to Socialism

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...

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 ...

Students Won't Be Quiet

INR 525

A democracy dies when critical voices are absent. We, in India, are in danger of a silent democracy. Either we let the rulers suffocate our voices or we get the courage to stand up, raise questions...

Sabarimala

Jitheesh P.M.

INR 250

Several surprising facts about the Sabarimala temple have been drowned out by the noise over the need to protect its ‘ traditions ’. Some relate to the tradit...

Arab Marxism and National Liberation

Mahdi Amel

INR 350

Mahdi Amel (1936–1987) was one of the most well-regarded and beloved Marxist theoreticians of his generation in the Arab world. He wrote widely and left behind a sc...

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...

ओट्टम और अन्य नाटक

Sapan Saran

INR 175.00

‘सपन सारन के नाटक पढ़ना ज़िंदगी को नई नज़र से देखना है। सपन के पास समाज मनोव�...

ओट्टम और अन्य नाटक

Sapan Saran

INR 175

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...

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�...

ज़ीरो माइल अलीगढ़

Jaisingh

INR 250

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

पुस्तक प्रदेश

Ibbar Rabbi

INR 250

इब्बार रब्बी की कहानियां संस्मरण और कहानी के बीच आवाजाही करती रहती हैं। उन�...

ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ

Bhuvendra Tyagi

INR 250

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

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...

मुसाफ़िर की डायरी

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

INR 450

उन दिनों दुनिया पर दूसरे महायुद्ध का ख़तरा मंडरा रहा था। चौबीस साल का एक नौ�...

मेरी आवाज़ सुनो

Justice K. Chandru

INR 250

यह किताब कुछ बहादुर महिलाओं के बारे में है।

बहादुर इसलिए कि हमारे देश मे�...

अपनों के बीच अजनबी

Farid Khan

INR 225

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...

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...

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...

गाँधी

Raosaheb Kasbe

INR 950.00

पूंजीवादी उत्पादन तकनीकों ने आज दुनिया में करोड़ों लोगों को बे...

गाँधी

Raosaheb Kasbe

INR 950

पूंजीवादी उत्पादन तकनीकों ने आज दुनिया में करोड़ों लोगों को बे...

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...

In Her Own Words

INR 625

The King’s Plunder, The King’s Bodies

Rahul Govind

INR 1,350

This book focuses on the King’s rights of conquest, plunder and prize, as well as allegiance and subjecthood, establishing a monarchical form of the British Empire ...

Economic Change in the Lower Cauvery Delta

Madhura Swaminathan, V. K. Ramachandran, V. Surjit

INR 1,500

The essays in the book explore the nature and direction of socio-economic change in the lower Cauvery delta. They draw primarily on the results of two census-type, sc...

क़ौल-ए-फ़ैसल

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

INR 325

क़ौल-ए-फ़ैसल, मौलाना अबुल कलाम आज़ाद के बौद्धिक और राजनीतिक व्यक�...

Maulana Azad

S. Irfan Habib

INR 899

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) was an Islamic scholar, freedom fighter, freethinker, journalist, and independent India’s first education minister. Born into ...

गीली मिट्टी पर पंजों के निशान

Farid Khan

INR 260

यह एक चकित करने वाला तथ्य है कि हिन्दी कविता में प्रस्थान बिन्द�...

हमारे दौर में

Aijaz Ahmad

INR 500

Revelation of Self in Language

SURANJANA BARUA

INR 950

Human beings have always been storytellers: civilizations have thrived on stories, cultures have been sustained through stories, and societies have always shared stor...

Unknown Heroes Of India's Freedom Struggle

P. Sainath

INR 375

This unique collection of graphic narratives by illustrators from across the country, in their distinctive styles, tells 16 stories of the forgotten foot soldiers of ...

Caste Pride

Manoj Mitta

INR 999

In this masterful work, Manoj Mitta examines the endurance and violence of the Hindu caste system through the lens of the law. Linking two centuries of legal reform with social movements, he uneart...

In Search of Answers

Kunjulekshmi Saradamoni

INR 995

“I believe that we should have a sense of history. In a sense, an autobiography is history. It has in it traces of geography as well. Each new place, the sights the...

स्वरमुद्रा

INR 400

हम अपनी पत्रिका स्वरमुद्रा के इस बृहत् विशेषांक के माध्यम से य�...

Maps of Sorrow

Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran

INR 825

The book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnect...

Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again

JAN BREMAN

INR 995

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colo...

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