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1 September 2021

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(Memoir) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (1924-2021): A Committed Communist

A stalwart of the Left movement in India’s Hindi-speaking regions. He led many movements from students to farmers and agricultural workers and also got elected to the Bihar legislative assembly twice. He challenged the feudal practices within his own household…

Interviews

4 May 2021

A communist moulded by struggles: the vibrant life of KS Ammukkutty

Ammukkutty, 88 year communist veteran was an active member of the Agricultural Workers Union. She rose to Central Committee of the Union through her hard work. Ammukkutty was born in a poor…

Interviews

20 March 2021

Interview with Aishe Ghosh, President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU)

The students in India have been fighting an upfront battle against the multi-faceted onslaught by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led central government’s anti-student policies for the past several years. In this interview,…

8 March 2021

Kanak Mukherjee (1921-2005): Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle

This study looks at the life and legacy of Kanak Mukherjee, a fighter for the people and people’s struggles who was born in undivided Bengal, India, in 1921. The rich trajectory of…

11 November 2020

One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement in India

Dossier no. 32 provides a brief introduction to the history of the communist movement in India, which turns one hundred years old on 17 October 2020. Founded by a handful of Indian…

8 October 2020

Che

Twenty left publishers from around the world release a joint edition including two essential texts by Che Guevara on the fifty-third anniversary of his assassination by the CIA in Bolivia. These texts,…

2 July 2019

The Only Answer is to Mobilise the Workers. An Interview with K. Hemalata, President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.

In the face of increasing neoliberal policies, the working-class movement in India has seen several major general strikes. Our eighteenth dossier – an interview with K Hemalata, President of the Centre of…

8 January 2019

India’s Communists and the Elections of 2019. Only an Alternative Agenda Can Defeat the Right-Wing.

Ahead of the 2019 elections in India — the largest exercise of electoral democracy in the world– Brinda Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) discusses the current political context in…

5 July 2018

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Kanak Mukherjee (1921-2005): Women of Struggle, Women in Struggle

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The Only Answer is to Mobilise the Workers. An Interview with K. Hemalata, President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.

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India’s Communists and the Elections of 2019. Only an Alternative Agenda Can Defeat the Right-Wing.

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The Story of Solapur, India, Where Housing Cooperatives are Building a Workers’ City