Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, A People’s History triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis [...]
- Florentino A. Iniego, JR
Another way of understanding the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’s victory is to study its revolutionary literature. As a researcher from the Philippines, I have been struggling to learn the Nepali language to grasp the poems and songs of the Maoist movement. For months of exposure, interaction, and reading translations of works [...]
Disturbed to life by the atrocious massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, disillusioned by the national political leaders who recoiled the promising Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922, alarmed by the rising religious divisions and reactionary rhetoric in the mainstream politics, and motivated by the Bolshevik Revolution of workers and peasants of Russia of 1917, Bhagat Singh [...]
While I collect some thoughts to write an original post, here is some interesting information that one of my friends wrote about:
I recently came across an interesting historical fact, which speaks volumes about the impact of a revolutionary upsurge in society on all aspects of life, including art and culture.
All of us have played cards [...]
A large number of Soviet books in English are now available online. Most
of the books are from Stalin period and some from Krushcev and Brezhnev
period for all of us to read and learn the changes.
There some books on Peoples Democracy, constitutions of some of the
Eastern European countries as well as Soviet attitude on Greek Question.
You [...]
The Communists and the Lawyers’ Movement
by
Bhagat Singh
It is important to understand the nature and scope of the movement for the restoration of judiciary in the context of the stage of the revolutionary movement. The Marxian method of reasoning is based on analyzing the general case, and moving to the concrete case, and deducing general implications [...]
Here is something I wrote after reading Postmodernism Disrobed by the well-known evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins:
This is Richard Dawkins, who holds the seat of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, at his best. He might not be the best scientist in the world, but he is surely the best man to make science easy for [...]
As long as they have no real competitor for the embodiment of the aspirations of the downtrodden masses, and as long as the social effects of globalization are with us, the fundamentalists will also be part of the picture, with ups and downs naturally. (Gilbert Achcar, Eastern Couldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a [...]
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