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Statement of Solidarity with Cuban poet Nancy Morejón from The International Union of Left Publishers

Nancy Morejón is an internationally recognized poet, translator, and academic. (Photo: T. Charles Erickson)

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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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Selected Writings

Ruth First

INR 150.00

Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa.

Until her assassinat...

Selected Writings

Ruth First

INR 150

Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa.

Until her assassinat...

Labouring Lives

Archana Aggarwal

INR 275

Clothes and cars are sparkling symbols of India’s economic success, but few think about the men and women who toil ceaselessly on the sewing machines and assembly lines to produce them. Based on ...

The Political Marx

Aijaz Ahmad, Vijay Prashad

INR 175

For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx’s own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as...

Our Own Path to Socialism

Hugo Chavez

INR 225

Hugo Chávez’s speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from our own histories and is for our own people. The Bolivarian Revolution b...

Education or Exclusion?

INR 300

The BJP-led Narendra Modi government announced a new National Education Policy (NEP) in July 2020. Neither knowledge production nor enhancing the democratic ethos find a place in the objectives of ...

Students Won't Be Quiet

INR 525

A democracy dies when critical voices are absent. We, in India, are in danger of a silent democracy. Either we let the rulers suffocate our voices or we get the courage to stand up, raise questions...

Sabarimala

Jitheesh P.M.

INR 250

Several surprising facts about the Sabarimala temple have been drowned out by the noise over the need to protect its ‘ traditions ’. Some relate to the tradit...

Arab Marxism and National Liberation

Mahdi Amel

INR 350

Mahdi Amel (1936–1987) was one of the most well-regarded and beloved Marxist theoreticians of his generation in the Arab world. He wrote widely and left behind a sc...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Selected Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

INR 550

Poet Ho Chi Minh,
who punches from Vietnam
to all humanity.
No cannon will erase
the furrow of your rice field.
The right to live in peace.

So sang Victor Jara, the legendary...

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...

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...

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 ...

कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन

Premchand

INR 250.00

ऐसे समय जब कहा जा रहा है कि हिंदू और मुस्लिम दो अलग-अलग संसार हैं, ये कहानिया�...

कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन

Premchand

INR 250

ऐसे समय जब कहा जा रहा है कि हिंदू और मुस्लिम दो अलग-अलग संसार हैं, ये कहानिया�...

ज़ीरो माइल अलीगढ़

Jaisingh

INR 250

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

पुस्तक प्रदेश

Ibbar Rabbi

INR 250

इब्बार रब्बी की कहानियां संस्मरण और कहानी के बीच आवाजाही करती रहती हैं। उन�...

ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ

Bhuvendra Tyagi

INR 250

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

भगत सिंह के साथी

Prabal Saran Agarwal, Harshvardhan Tripathi, Ankur Goswami

INR 295

जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन की चर्चा होती है, भगत सिंह का ना...

मुसाफ़िर की डायरी

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

INR 450

उन दिनों दुनिया पर दूसरे महायुद्ध का ख़तरा मंडरा रहा था। चौबीस साल का एक नौ�...

मेरी आवाज़ सुनो

Justice K. Chandru

INR 250

यह किताब कुछ बहादुर महिलाओं के बारे में है।

बहादुर इसलिए कि हमारे देश मे�...

अपनों के बीच अजनबी

Farid Khan

INR 225

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...

जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे

Atul Tiwari

INR 150

जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो व...

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।
क़ब्र �...

कँटीले तार की तरह

INR 225

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

तख़्तापलट

Vijay Prashad, Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

तख़्तापलट मार्क्सवादी पत्रकारिता और इतिहास लेखन की शानदार परंपरा में ल�...

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...

हल्ला बोल

Sudhanva Deshpande

INR 325

यह मौत की कहानी नहीं है। यह ज़िंदगी की कहानी है। एक सादालौह इंसान की दमकती, हस...

India On Their Minds

Ritu Menon

INR 399.00

Anniversaries are markers, and a country's 75th anniversary commemorating its independence from colonial rule, is certainly special. But an anniversary can also offer an opportunity for refl...

India On Their Minds

Ritu Menon

INR 399

Anniversaries are markers, and a country's 75th anniversary commemorating its independence from colonial rule, is certainly special. But an anniversary can also offer an opportunity for refl...

Footprints of a Queer History

Maya Sharma

INR 699

Footprints of a Queer History is a simple narrative of queer stories marked by personal journeys, political consciousness, socio-legal struggles, friendships, and love; it puts on record, within th...

John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

INR 1,500

‘Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky, is an analysis of the very nature of cinema that makes it such a threat in the eyes of the state. It is about the right to freedom of exp...

The Communist Manifesto

INR 675

Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the original publication of The Communist Manifesto, this textbook offers a series of new interpretations...

Building the Ambedkar Revolution

Gail Omvedt

INR 499

The book 'Building the Ambedkar Revolution: Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and Kokan Dalits' is an overdue tribute to Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad, Dr. Ambedkar's trusted ...

The Living Flame

Paul Le Blanc

INR 495

Rosa Luxemburg, a brilliant early-twentieth-century German revolutionary, comes alive in a rich set of essays that analyze her tremendous contributions to revolutiona...

इस्लाम का ऐतिहासिक भूमिका

M.N. Roy

INR 100

पिछली घटनाओं को देखने से ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि यदि देश की स्वतन्...

Ways of Beings

INR 450

Does writing have a nationality? Are writers defined by geography, language, religion, gender and ethnicity alone, or are there other attributes that identify them.?<...

The Shape of a Poem

Paresh Tiwari, Srividya Sivakumar

INR 399

Like flowers from first love,
we have pressed poems between the pages of this book.
...

I Know the Psychology of Rats

Saeed Mirza

INR 1,200

“Why am I writing this book? Is it because I feel my time is running out? Perhaps that is true. It is becoming more and more difficult to remember the conversations...

भागा हुआ लड़का

Manoranjan Byapari

INR 399

मनोरंजन ब्यापारी बंगाली दलित साहित्य का चमकता सितारा हैं। रिफ�...

Capital and Politics

Greg Albo, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nicole Aschoff

INR 795

The 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register offers a careful political assessment of the organization and practices of the modern corporation ...

The Rafale Deal Flying Lies?

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair

INR 795

The story of the purchase of the Rafale fighter aircraft from the privately-owned French company Dassault Aviation is different from, and yet similar to, other scanda...

The Education of Yuri

Jerry Pinto

INR 599

‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’

At fifteen, Yuri Fonseca of...

Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man

Kuzhali Manickavel

INR 795

Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man is a collection of 37 dialogues that melds the classical philosophical tradition of Plato and Socrate...

River of Stories

Orijit Sen

INR 795

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Sardar Sarovar Dam project in Western India became the focal point of a massive grassroots protest. People from all over the co...

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