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Vol 58, No.1, Jun 29 - Jul 5, 2025
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A Future with Alternative Possibilities - Editorial
Containing Sexual Violence: A Persistent Revolution - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Great Betrayal of the ideal of Communism by Stalin, Mao and their Political Heirs - Sumanta Banerjee
The Unusual Genealogy of the Concept of Capitalism - Marcello Musto
The Left in Dilemma–Electoral Politics - Arup Baisya
Electoral Democracy in Crisis - Vinod Mubayi
People’s Republic of China ’75 - Harsh Thakor
India’s Changing Education Policy, 1986-2020 - Olivia Banerjee
Problems Facing Dalit Women In India - Pranjali Bandhu
All that is Violent Melts into the Thin Air of Politics in Bengal - Ranabir Samaddar
Nehru and Somnath Temple - Himanshu Roy
Deconstructing ‘Love Jihad’ and Other Fictions - Arup Kumar Sen
Unsafe Workplace: ‘They are losing Hands and Fingers’ - Atanu Chakravarty
Unemployment and Under-employment of India’s Youth - Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Kolkata’s Hawkers - Ritaiyoti Bandyopadhyay
Suniti Kumar Ghosh: An Assessment of a Revolutionary Activist–I - Amit Bhattacharyya
A Communist Revolutionary Remembered - Asok Chattopadhyay
A Tale of e-Activism at Vidyasagar University - Abhijit Guha
Fascism and Resource Depletion - T Vijayendra
Weaponisation of Science- Sujoy Prasad Bhattacharyya
Bangladesh Poor Peasantry in Revolt during 1947-’71 - Farooque Chowdhury
The Incomes from ‘Exploitation of Labour’! - Ranganayakamma
Deepening Crisis in Jute Industry - Nityananda Ghosh
Chandrashekhar Azad–An Iconic Revolutionary - Chaman Lal
The Virtual Abrogation of Article 370 - I M Sharma
State vs Super-State - Jayanta Bhattacharya
Economic Inequality and the Quality of a Society - Anup K Sinha
Women Domestic Workers: Persisting Precarity - Sohini Sengupta
A Delayed Post-Mortem Report - Manas Bakshi
Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia - Joydip Ghosal
In Search of the 15th Dalai Lama - Christopher Harding
Construction of a World where Many Worlds Fit - Sunil Ray
Eastern Light on Western Marxism - David Broder


 
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