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Poet Ho Chi Minh,
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to all humanity.
No cannon will erase
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Who is Teesta Setalvad?

For the Hindu Right, she is a dangerous impediment to India's onward march to 'glory...

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?...

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27. 06. 2022

Stop the Persecution of LeftWord Books author Teesta Setalvad: International Union of Left Publishers.

In 2017, LeftWord Books published the memoir of Teesta Setalvad, Foot Soldiers of the Co

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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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21.02.2022 @ International Red Books Day
We are now witnessing the rise of a neo-fascist menace. This menace has turned its attention to left books – with attacks on left bookshops and with murders and threats of left writers and publis ...
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07.08.2021 @ Book discussion: 'People’s Planning: Kerala, Local Democracy and Development'
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BOOKS FROM LEFTWORD . . .

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 ...
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Kollontai 150
Alexandra Kollontai

INR 195

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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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HINDI BOOKS

अपनों के बीच अजनबी

Farid Khan

INR 225.00

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...
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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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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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कितने यातना शिविर

INR 250

समाज के कमज़ोर व्यक्ति के संघर्ष का चित्रण करती मार्मिक कहानियाँ।
क़ब्र �...
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कँटीले तार की तरह

INR 225

‘ये कविताएँ सामाजिक रूप से सजग हैं। विडंबनाओं, विषमताओं की सही पहचान करती ह...
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तख़्तापलट
Vijay Prashad, Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

तख़्तापलट मार्क्सवादी पत्रकारिता और इतिहास लेखन की शानदार परंपरा में ल�...
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कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत
Pranjal

INR 95

आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार ऐसा हुआ कि लाखों के हुजूम ने राजधानी...
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वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह
Archana Prasad

INR 195

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

INR 325

यह मौत की कहानी नहीं है। यह ज़िंदगी की कहानी है। एक सादालौह इंसान की दमकती, हस...
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जाति से जंग
Pranjal

INR 100

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

INR 195

मई 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में हिंदुत्ववादी दक्षिणपंथी भारतीय जनता �...
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कार्ल मार्क्स
Shankar Dayal Tiwari

INR 175

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

INR 350

भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...
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. . . AND FROM THE INDIE PRESSES

Untold stories of IPTA & Niranjan Sen

INR 300.00

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...
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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...
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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 ...
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रेत समाधि
Geetanjali Shree

INR 450

अस्सी की होने चली दादी ने विधवा होकर परिवार से पीठ कर खटिया पकड़...
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Mobile Girls Koottam
Madhumita Dutta

INR 425

In 2013 Madhumita Dutta, a doctoral student went to do research in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. There she met Kalpana, Abhinaya, Satya, Lakshmi, and Pooja—all women working inside an electr...
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A History of Capitalism
Michel Beaud

INR 450

The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the Industrial Revolut...
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CHE GUEVARA
Olivier Besancenot, Michael Löwy

INR 250

“Deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried to trap him,” notes the celebrated Chilean novelist Ariel Dorfman, “the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with...
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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. ...
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This Life At Play
GIRISH KARNAD

INR 799

Girish Karnad was one of modern India's greatest cultural figures: an accomplished actor, a path-breaking director, an innovative administrator, a clear-headed and er...
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Improvised Futures
RANJANA DAVE

INR 1,200

In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to performance as a transaction of sensorial agency – the right to be seen, heard, recognize...
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How Are You Veg?
Joopaka Subhadra , Alladi Uma and M Sridhar

INR 500

Translated for the first time into English, Joopaka Subhadra's stories expose the lives of Madiga women, the most oppressed among Dalits in Telangana. As she declares...
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The Feudal Order
D.N. Jha

INR 795

Whether or not Indian society in the early medieval period was feudal has remained an important issue of animated debate in Indian historiography for nearly four deca...
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Is this Azaadi?
Anand Chakravarti

INR 750

This study of the living conditions of Dalit agricultural laborers in Muktidih Village in southwest Bihar throws light on the problems they face in accessing the basi...
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Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar

INR 495

In 1936, a Hindu reformist group invited Dr B.R. Ambedkar to deliver its annual lecture. When the group read an advance copy of the text of the speech, it found the c...
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Staying Alive
Vandana Shiva

INR 350

Shiva's powerful narratives allow us to hold a piece of food in our hands and, in a thought process we have never been taught to follow, lets us trace backwards the story of the land it was grown o...
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Science and Philosophy in Ancient India
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

INR 350

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya was 'a one-man brigade against philosophical obscurantism' during more than three decades that he wrote and published, beginning with 'Lokayata' in 1959. In the eight essa...
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The Way I See It
Gauri Lankesh

INR 399

Gauri Lankesh was the definitive activist-journalist, someone whose head and heart worked as one to encompass her life. Gathered here is a selection from Gauri’s writings, spanning langu...
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