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In the early 1990s, E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909–1998) came across the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1891–19...

This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ord...

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07. 01. 2022

Commemorating Venmani: Flame of Resistance by Kalpana Karunakaran

‘Huts without roof.
Huts without walls.
Huts ground to dust.
To ash.
Huts with broken bangle pieces’.

These were the opening lines of an essay on the Keezhvenmani ma

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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In recent times, India has witnessed lakhs of student protestors braving all odds to hit the streets – from Himachal to Kerala and from Pune to Assam.

Since 2014, the attack on students a ...

Nothing Will Be Forgotten

Nehal Ahmed

INR 250.00

‘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...

Nothing Will Be Forgotten

Nehal Ahmed

INR 250

Comrade of the Revolution

Fidel Castro Ruz

INR 250

‘You cannot kill ideas. Fidel, for the Third World, was not merely another leader. He was the mirror of its aspirations. That mirror will never be shattered.’ – From the Introduction

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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...

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...

Delhi's Agony

Vijay Prashad, Naseeruddin Shah, Teesta Setalvad, Justice V. Gopala Gowda, T.M. Krishna, N. Ram, K.M. Tiwari, Meera Velayudhan

INR 185

There was terrible violence in North East Delhi in the last days of February 2020. Fifty-four people were killed, many were wounded, and a large number of people lost their livelihoods. No one deni...

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 ...

Gender and Neoliberalism

Brinda Karat, Elisabeth Armstrong

INR 495

This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided ...

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...

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 ...

Nothing Human is Alien to Me

Vijay Prashad, Aijaz Ahmad

INR 350

Two features characterize the entire body of Aijaz Ahmad’s work, which offers us a way to read the history of the present. First, his evident wide reading about the history and sociology of the w...

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 imperialism, but nev...

War Against the Planet

Vijay Prashad

INR 175

On 11 September 2001, three commercial aircraft became guided missiles and crashed into New York City's World Trade Center and the US Military's Pentagon. In response, the United States government ...

ज़ीरो माइल पटना

Sanjay Kundan

INR 250.00

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

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।
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कँटीले तार की तरह

INR 225

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

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...

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 ...

Brecht's Communist Manifesto Today

Darko Suvin

INR 225.00

The task of a communist manifesto has always been to expose the untruth of anti-utopia, of the proclamation that “there was history, but there is no more.” It rev...

Brecht's Communist Manifesto Today

Darko Suvin

INR 225

The task of a communist manifesto has always been to expose the untruth of anti-utopia, of the proclamation that “there was history, but there is no more.” It rev...

Ambedkar 2021: Meanings of Loving and Hurt

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INR 499

Featuring 32 Portraits of Babasaheb Ambedkar By November

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Dipankar Kamble

INR 299

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INR 399

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bell hooks

INR 895

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bell hooks

INR 795

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Teaching Community

bell hooks

INR 795

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INR 795

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INR 599

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INR 799

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Zohra!

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INR 599

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Aakar Patel

INR 799

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What led to this swing? Is it possible to trace the path to this point?...

Price of the Modi Years

Aakar Patel

INR 699

Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the political scenario. In Price of the Modi Years, he seeks ...

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions

INR 695

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