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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 scalding weapon in the otherwise cold arsenal of reason, logic, codes, procedures, precedents, and dicta. Ambedkar placed his legal training as cold ore is in the furnace of a smeltery, to produce the fiery ingots of a renascent vision, which then be...

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 story of the ongoing struggles to build 'another world' in Kerala, India. The neoliberal imperative is to 'maximize growth at any cost'. Kerala has embarked upon an alternative - to optimize growth within redistribution, environmental sustainability, gender and...

Zero Mile ek aisi series hai jo hamare chir-parichit shahron ko ek nayee nazar se dekhti hai. Is series ki har kitaab ek aise jane-maane lekhak ki kalam ki den hai jo us shahar se gahra lagaaw rakhte hain, lekin shahar ke vibhinn pahluon kaa tatasth hokar vishleshan bhi karte hain. Iski pahli kadi ke roop me Patna shahar par yeh kitaab prastut hai.Isme kavi-kathakar Sanjay kundan ne shahar ke buniyaadi charitra ko pahchanne ki koshish karte h...

Samaj ke kamzor vyakti ke sanghasrh kaa chitran karti marmik kahaniyan. Kabr ki zamin (Jesinta kerketta) me jab ek adivasi yuvti ke bachche ke kriya-karm ki baari aati hai, to dharm ke thekedaar uth khade hote hain... Gulabi Ration card (Vandana Shukla) me gharib adivasiyon ke ek gaon me ek din ghoshna hoti hai ki un sabko makaan diya jayega.Unke sapne pankh farfarane lagte hain.Lekin pata chalta hai ki makaan banaane ki pariyojna par rok lag ...

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 farmers had converged on the megapolis under the banner of the All-India Kisan Sabha to berate their government for its many betrayals of their demands. The farmers won the hearts and sympathies of an often apathetic and unsympathetic urban population wh...

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. This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebellion of 1921 out of the history of the Freedom Struggle. History, h...

This book locates India's flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life. Three essays provide independent perspectives on a common area of inquiry, an ra that witnessed a fundamental mutation of the State, its mechanisms of planning and governance, the public domain and the everyday, all mediated by digital technology, all impacting its internet. Bringing the e...

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 assassination in 1982, she was a committed anti-apartheid activist and was one of the many defendants of the Treason Trial and imprisoned without charge in solitary confinement for 117 days in 1963. Ruth First on a range of topics including the landmark 1956 Women's M...

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 NEP 2020. The document turns to the past for its inspiration, but it does not utter a single word about the anti-colonial struggle which laid the foundations of modern education in India. It talks of traditions, but only those that align with the upp...

¿ In the summer of 2020, the Narendra Modi government pushed through three anti-farmer, pro-corporate bills in parliament. This came after decades of cuts in subsidies and price supports to the farmers, leading to deaths by suicide of 400, 000 debt-ridden farmers, a fourth of them since Modi became prime minister in 2014. On 26 November 2020, farmers began a heroic protest that lasted through the pandemic, police repression, government callous...

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 Shaheen Bagh sit-in, together created an inspiring moment in the fight against state-sponsored majoritarianism. It's through first-hand accounts that historic moments of resistance become the stuff of history. Nehal's brave and moving narrative is both a memo...

There's really no escaping it: if you want to understand capitalism, you simply have to read Karl Marx's Capital. But this is easier said than done. Capital is Marx's magnum opus - consisting of more than 2, 000 pages, over three volumes. It is a masterpiece of analysis, of relentlessly methodical and logical reasoning. So is Capital only for the expert? No. Capital can be read - and understood - by beginners as well, provided they are guided ...

Between 1905 and 1949, the economic and political map of the world was altered decisively. The basis was created for the first experiements for establishing an egalitarian social order. Prolonged and intense debates on the nature of agrarian relations, and on the role of the peasantry in relation to the working class, took place in teh course of these revolutionary movements. These debates were actuated by the need to theorise the specific cla...

Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world. There has never existed such a revolution of such significance and scale in the history of humanity'. - H¿ Chí Minh// From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution remains as an inspiration. After all, that Revolution proved that the working class and the peasantry coul...

Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto sh...

[Y]our threats are not going to intimidate me. Then why make such unnecessary statements?' - Pinarayi Vijayan, to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh//The RSS feed on fear. Fighting them requires depriving them of it. Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerela, was born in Kannur, ground zero of RSS terror. He has seen the worst that they have to offer. And he's not afraid. At a time when democracy is in danger, with an organization bent on disman...

Beginning July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes and a ground invasion of Gaza that lasted fifty-one days, leaving over 2, 000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were civilians. During the assault, at least 10, 000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300, 000 Palestinians were displaced. Max Blumenthal was on the ground during what he argues was an entirely avoidable catastrophe. In this explosive work of r...

¿"This book is an amazing archive of people¿s struggles and a rich documenting of public debates during a critical moment in our recent and lived history. It brings the 1960s and 70s in Tamil Nadu back to us in ways that we have almost lost today. Ever responsive to the questions being raised from the ground, Mythily¿s own position was shaped by her understanding of protesting peasants, dalits and the most marginalized in society. We know so l...

The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in the light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic crisis has been used to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below. This volume addresses how capitalist classes are reorganizing as well as the structure and composit...

This 51st annual Socialist Register completes the investigation of class formation and class strategies on a global scale begun with last year's volume. Deploying an understanding of class as an historical social process-rather than an abstract sociological category or statistical artifact-the essays here investigate the concrete ways that working classes are being made and remade in the struggles against neoliberalism, austerity, and authorit...