Sulekha Sanyal was born in 1928 in an impoverished family that had once been indigo planters. She became a communist while a student. At thirty-five she died of leukemia, leaving a number of short
Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995) was a Marxist intellectual from São Paulo, Brazil. He was a highly regarded professor of sociology and a socialist activist.
MICHAEL DENNING is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale’s Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in t