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15. 07. 2019
Grateful for Progress Publishers
By Vijay PrashadThe bookshelf in my mother's apartment in Kolkata is weighed down by an old history. There are books in the familiar blue and white spine, the old Progress Publishers volumes that include my volume
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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Check out the May Day Bookstore, with its fabulous collection of books. Next door is the theatre space Studio Safdar, created by Jana Natya Manch
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Actor and storyteller Arjun Raina migrated to Australia in 2010. Last year, while trying to promote his show The Magic Hour in country Victoria, he experienced first hand a certain resistance to bo ...
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मई 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में हिंदुत्ववादी दक्षिणपंथी भारतीय जनता ...
In the first years after the 1917 Russian revolution, a bold new cry was heard around the world, ‘Liberate the Colonies!’ It was voiced in Moscow by Marxists combating tsarist oppression of Asi...
An ultra-right fanatic is today the President of Brazil. This needn't have come to pass.
After serving as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, and on the verge of starting his candidacy f...
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 states face many o...
भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...
In 2006, a freedom fighter, an actor, a nurse, and a musician came together to set up a theatre in the midst of Jenin Refugee Camp in occupied Palestine. Called the Freedom Theatre, it was created ...
Vijay Prashad, 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 ben...
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 ...
With a Preface by Naresh Fernandes, author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot.
Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the...
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...
Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, the book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the ‘Dancing Poet’ – in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit...
Paid domestic work is historically as well as culturally embedded, and exhibits considerable social and regional inequalities. In many ways, domestic workers share commonalities with unpaid housewi...
This powerful study of the women’s movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. On...
Whither Rural India? Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in Contemporary India
Lenin on the Agrarian Question
After stating briefly the nature of the peasant problem in Russia of the 1890s, this book follows the course of Lenin's thinking on agrarian questions both in Russia and in countries of more advanc...
Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revo...
A poetic evocation of the act of reading, a provocation for non-readers, a sparkling soliloquy for avid readers, and a philosophical reflection on what we call literature, Why Read? ...
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its...
For well over a decade, there has been a battle going on in India, as old divisions and inequalities have become deeper. Since 2014, this battle has reached a feverish pitch with the combined...
The postscript briefly updates the conceptual, theoretical and policy analyses which overviews how vast dramatic depravities grip India's democracy, development and human rights record in the...
Subhash Gatade focuses on the right wing thrust in Indian polity during the first decade of the 21st century. His writings show that the ultra-right and Hindu nationalist political formations...
On Communalism and Globalization
In three celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad dis...
Vivan Sundaram Is Not a Photographer
In this book, Ruth Rosengarten considers the expanded field of the ‘photographic’ in the work of Indian artist Vivan Sundaram, beginning with the notion that Sundaram is not a photographer in a...
The lectures at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) brought together in this volume dwell on some of the most telling concerns that our age confronts: concerns of justice, social closures, bare life an...
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd writes with passionate anger, laced with sarcasm, on the caste system and Indian society. He looks at the socioeconomic and cultural differences between the Dalit-Bahujans an...
