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A democracy dies when critical voices are absent. We, in India, are in danger of a silent democracy. Either we let th...

Those who think that Babasaheb Ambedkar was against Communism or Marxism are grossly prejudiced. Ambedkar's relations...

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07. 12. 2022

The Photos of John Burtovich in Police Custody by Suchetana Chattopadhyay

In 1919, a British merchant vessel SS Boveric reached Calcutta. The ship carried a mixed crew ‘of all nations’. On board were Frank Bilboa and John Burtovich, two workers

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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Education or Exclusion?

INR 300.00

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 ...

Education or Exclusion?

INR 300

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ

Bhuvendra Tyagi

INR 250.00

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

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...

सुलगता कश्मीर, सिकुड़ता लोकतंत्र

Pranjal

INR 100

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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...

मोदीनामा

Subhash Gatade

INR 195

मई 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में हिंदुत्ववादी दक्षिणपंथी भारतीय जनता �...

The Rafale Deal Flying Lies?

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair

INR 795.00

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 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...

Mapping Women's History

INR 899

Barbara Ramusack, Charles Phelps 'Taft Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati and Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of...

दलित दृष्टि

Gail Omvedt

INR 250

भारतीय वामपंथियों ने सांस्कृतिक तथा प्रतीकात्मक मुद्दों पर स�...

Daaera (the Circle) Dhanak (the Rainbow) Box Set

Kaifi Azmi

INR 2,499

This collector’s edition of companion volumes Dhanak and Daaera is a treat for poetry-lovers everywhere. Selected and edited by Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar, they ...

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...

सुभाषचन्द्र बोस और आज़ाद हिन्द फ़ौज

Ashok Tiwari

INR 275

सुभाषचन्द्र बोस के जीवन की तमाम गुत्थियों एवं मनोभावों को उजाग...

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...

मेरा बिज़नेस मेरी कहानी

Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Shrutika Mathur, Nishtha Vadehra

INR 499

'मेरा बिज़नेस मेरी कहानी' भारत की बीस प्रेरक उद्यमी मह...

Apple is Our Livelihood

INR 150

After a brief overview of the National Workshop of Apple Farmers by Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, the book begins with P Krishnaprasad's article stating the need for appl...

पेरियार ललाई सिंह ग्रंथावली

Periyar Lalai Singh, Dharamveer Yadav Gagan

INR 2,000

मुझे ऐसा लगता है कि वर्णाश्रम धर्म, वर्तमान सत्ताधारी पार्टी क�...

Distress In The Fields

INR 1,500

In 2021, India completed three decades of implementation of economic liberalization policies. This volume is a composite and critical account of Indian agriculture du...

We Mean Business

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INR 499

WE Mean Business is an anthology of graphic narratives by and of twenty inspiring businesswomen from across India. Based on extensive interviews conducted over a year...

बीच का रास्ता नहीं होता

INR 595

पाश की कविता हमारी क्रान्तिकारी काव्य-परम्‍परा की अत्यन्त प्र�...

Women, Incarcerated

INR 1,210

In the popular imagination, the female criminal/prisoner is a figure of curiosity and intrigue. Hidden behind male prisoners, partners in their lives and/or crimes, t...

The Vanishing Point

INR 1,200

The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video (volume 3 in the India Since the 90s series) tracks the fugitive afterlife of the moving image ever since the proclaime...

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