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20. 12. 2018
An excerpt from ‘The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse’
By Carlos MartinezAlthough a distance of more than a quarter-century separates us from that fateful day in December 1991 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ceased to exist, understanding of the Sovi
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नासिरा शर्मा हिंदी की एक विख्यात लेखिका हैं। कहानी, लेख, रिपोर्ताज, संस्मरण, आलोचना आपकी ढेरों ..read more
In this talk with Sohail Hashmi, we will try to answer one key question: How does a city come into being? Delhi, the national capital, is majorly full of migrants. Excepting the Jats and Gujars, it is impossible to find people who'd be native to th..read more
Challenges to Indian Fiscal Federalism
T.M. Thomas Isaac, Lekha Chakraborty, R. Mohan
The principle of fiscal federalism enshrined in India’s Constitution is under severe strain today.
This book is a key addition to understanding the challenges involved. The authors captur...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants'
state – lasted a mere seventy years. It has been gone for a quarter of a
century.
Existing socialist sta...
Only People Make Their Own History
Samir Amin's primary concern as an economist is the form that imperialism takes in the last hundred years—driven at first by capitalist monopolies and later by what he calls generalized monopolie...
Jail Notebook and Other Writings
Bhagat Singh spent the last two years of his life in jail, awaiting execution. During this time, he and his comrades fought one of the most celebrated court battles in the annals of national libera...
भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...
The Armchair Revolutionary and Other Sketches
Available as e-book here.
With a special Prologue by actor and filmmaker Nandita Das. Cover artwork by Ayaz Jokhio.
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A truly global history that examines the prospects of a worldwide power shift from North to South.
In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Thir...
The first full-fledged attempt by a Marxist to evaluate Gandhi ’'s role in India' ’s freedom struggle.
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, who began his political life as an ardent Gandhian, was uniq...
The Freedom Theatre is one of the most remarkable institutions in occupied Palestine, and indeed the world. Nestled in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, the theatre has faced attacks, threats, i...
“Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires....
Jayati Ghosh, C.P. Chandrasekhar
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 i...
“The Third World was not a place, ” argues Vijay Prashad. “It was a project. ”
This book is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement —the idea ...
Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez, Ninotchka Rosca
This small book is a collection of fables.
Four brilliant artists and writers confront four strongmen.
Eve Ensler, the American playwright (The Vagina Monologues), goes beneath the ...
Critics of privatization are often told they present no alternatives. This book takes up that challenge, proposing conceptual models for what constitutes an 'alternatives to privatization' and an...
The Warli Adivasi Revolt in Thane district of Maharashtra from 1945 onwards was a historic event. It was part of the massive post-Second World War and pre-Independence peasant struggles in various ...
In Vidarbha, yet another debt-laden farmer commits suicide. His death leaves his family—especially his twenty-year-old son, Vikram Sonare—devastated and furious. But Vikram’s work with the Ag...
मजुमदार जिस नाटकीय दृष्टि से समकालीन कश्मीर को देखते हैं वह शोकाकुल, अति-यथ...
Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution
This rich collection of 35 years of Raya Dunayevskaya's writings, based on active participation , correspondence, interviews, and meetings, develops the dialectics of revolution which emerges from ...
Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world's preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud ...
Gangubai was born to a family of traditional musicians in Dharwad and went on to become one of the greatest vocalists of the Hindustani classical music. ‘A Life in Three Octaves’ is an ...
Rosa Luxemburg is one of the most controversial and important figures in the development of Marxism. In many respects her role is unique; she was at once one of the founders of modern communism and...
About the Book: In the Path of Service Born in 1912, and bearing witness to nine remarkable decades, full of change and movement, Ahoka Gupta writes an account of her life and times. These were dec...
