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17. 01. 2021
Before he was M. N. Roy
By Suchetana ChattopadhyayThe climate of war in 1914 activated the revolutionary underground in Kolkata. Securing funds and ammunitions became a priority, in the backdrop of a wider plan to overthrow British rule. A synchro
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Songs of the Soil
An Online Celebration of the Music about the Farmers’ Struggle against the 2020 Farm Laws
January 9, 2021, 7.00-9.00 pm
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Vijay Prashad, Claudia De La Cruz, Manolo De Los Santos
Ever since the Bolivarian Revolution began in Venezuela in 1998-99, the United States government – on behalf of its various allies – pursued a policy of hybrid war to undermine and destroy Boli...
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...
अर्नेस्तो ‘चे’ ग्वेरा एक ऐसे आदर्श क्रांतिकारी थे, जिन्होंने किसी एक देश क...
The Veins of the South Are Still Open
Inequality is not an abstraction or a mere theoretical speculation; it makes itself tangible in the bodies of the oppressed from the South.
Imperialism is the most appropriate category to u...
History of the Communist Movement in India
The Present Volume tells the story of the early years of the communist movement in India.
The Communist movement in India was a product of the radical impetus coming out of the national lib...
German Socialism in the late 19th century was torn on this question, with Eduard Bernstein the influential advocate for the centrality of reforms. This view was known as “revisionism ” — — ...
Though delayed, justice has finally been done to the man.
After years of prevarication, the Bharatiya Janata Party has at last publicly and explicitly owned up Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as i...
Foot Soldier of the Constitution
Who is Teesta Setalvad?
For the Hindu Right, she is a dangerous impediment to India's onward march to 'glory'. This is the story of the real Teesta – inheritor of the best and most prog...
In May 2019, the party of the Hindu Right, Bharatiya Janata Party, under Narendra Modi, won a spectacular electoral victory.
The victory seemed to defy common sense – why did conversation...
एक सजग और प्रतिबद्ध रचनाकार के रूप में प्रेमचंद न सिर्फ कहानियां और उपन्या...
कोरोना वायरस ने हमारे जीवन में जिस तरह की उथल-पुथल मचाई है, उसे हिंदी के अनेक...
India is battling for its very soul.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the most powerful organisation in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying ...
This free ebook is meant to introduce readers to one of the most strikingly original Marxist thinkers of Latin America, José Carlos Mariátegui. The book contains three essays by Mariátegui: Ethi...
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 neve...
This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness.
On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – t...
Vijay Prashad, V.I. Lenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky
"The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and armonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction...
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Lenin's Imperialism is one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. Its significance arises not so much from the data it provides; nor does it arise from the sheer fact that it expla...
Though delayed, justice has finally been done to the man.
After years of prevarication, the Bharatiya Janata Party has at last publicly and explicitly owned up Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as i...
This book is a mirror of our times. It raises questions, shatters assumptions and provides an unbiased view of the challenges we as a diverse country are facing today.
India’s Long Walk...
Communal Violence in North East Delhi, February 2020
From February 23 to 29, 2020, 17 of the 28 ‘town’ areas and one village in the north east district of Delhi were ravaged by communal violence. Fifty-four persons lost their lives. Property – ...
Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader will be the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg’s writings in English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early 1970s, this volume i...
Rosa Luxemburg is one of the most controversial and important figures in the development of Marxism. In many respects her role is unique; she was at once one of the founders of modern communism and...
German Socialism in the late 19th century was torn on this question, with Eduard Bernstein the influential advocate for the centrality of reforms. This view was known as “revisionism ” — — ...
Collected here are Rosa Luxemburg’s Writings on the question of national self-determination and its relationship with socialism. Originally written in Polish, these works are relatively unkno...
Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples?
History, it is said, cannot be studied without reflecting on the practice of historians who narrate it. The articles in this volume introduce readers to the writings of four scholars who study the ...
Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
In this important and wide-ranging critique of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Raya Dunayevskaya examines the life, political thought, and action of one of the most critical revolutionary figures of our...
