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A Marxist publishing house in New Delhi, founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Naya Rasta Publishers Private Limited. It publishes new work on politics, history and culture alongside Indian editions of socialist classics, and since 1 May 2012 has run the May Day Bookstore and Café. It remains active.

Years
1999–present
Location
New Delhi, India
Also known as
Naya Rasta Publishers
Affiliation
Founded by CPI(M) members Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury and Sukomal Sen
Languages
English, Hindi
Website
https://leftword.com/
Authority records
Wikidata
Sources
Wikipedia — LeftWord Books

Backlist

1201990200020102020Founded 19991999: 4 titles2000: 6 titles2001: 6 titles2002: 6 titles2003: 6 titles2004: 6 titles2005: 10 titles2006: 6 titles2007: 7 titles2008: 1 title2009: 2 titles2010: 8 titles2011: 4 titles2012: 1 title2013: 4 titles2014: 2 titles2015: 6 titles2016: 4 titles2017: 8 titles2018: 4 titles2019: 8 titles2020: 12 titles2021: 9 titles2022: 7 titles2023: 4 titles2024: 6 titles2025: 1 title
Titles of LeftWord Books by year: 148 dated titles, 1999–2025, most in 2020 (12). Lines mark founded 1999.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1990s4
2000s56
2010s49
2020s39
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1999A World to Win✓ — Essays on the Communist ManifestoPrakash Karat & Karl MarxEnglish
1999Riding the Nuclear Tiger✓Free
Signpost, Issues That Matter
N. RamEnglish
1999Signpost✓ — Issues that matter—English
1999The Kargil War✓
Signpost: Issues That Matter
Praveen SwamiEnglish
2000Fidel Castro on Imperialist Globalisation✓ — Two SpeechesFidel CastroEnglish
2000Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism✓Free — A Popular OutlineVladimir Ilʹič Lenin & Prabhat PatnaikEnglish
2000Local Democracy and Development✓ — People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in KeralaT. M. Thomas Isaac & Richard W. FrankeEnglish
2000The Kargil War✓
Signpost: Issues That Matter
Praveen SwamiEnglish
2000The RSS and the BJP✓ — A Division of Labour
Signpost: Issues That Matter
Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniEnglish
2000Weakening Welfare✓ — The Public Distribution of Food in IndiaMadhura SwaminathanEnglish
2001Depoliticizing Development✓ — The World Bank and Social CapitalJohn HarrissEnglish
2001Karl Marx, Frederick Engels on the National and Colonial Questions✓ — Selected WritingsKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Aijaz AhmadEnglish
2001Local Democracy and Development✓ — People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in KeralaT. M. Thomas Isaac & Richard W. FrankeEnglish
2001Nobodies to Somebodies✓ — The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri LankaKumari JayawardenaEnglish
2001On the National and Colonial Questions✓ — Selected WritingsKarl Marx & Aijaz AhmadNot recorded
2001Riding the Nuclear Tiger✓Free
Signpost, Issues That Matter; 1
N. RamEnglish
2002Enron Blowout✓ — Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons
Sign Post: Issues That Matter
Prabir PurkayasthaEnglish
2002Islam and Jihad✓
Signpost: Issues That Matter
Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniEnglish
2002Savarkar and Hindutva✓ — The Godse ConnectionAbdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniEnglish
2002Selected Writings of Jotirao Phule✓Joti Govindrao FuleEnglish
2002The Market That Failed✓ — A Decade of Neoliberal Economic Reforms in IndiaC. P. ChandrasekharEnglish
2002War Against the Planet✓ — The Fifth Afghan War, Imperialism, and Other Assorted Fundamentalisms
Signpost: Issues That Matter
Vijay PrashadEnglish
2003Across Time and Continents✓ — A Tribute to Victor G. KiernanPrakash Karat & Victor G. KiernanEnglish
2003Blue Gold✓ — The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's WaterMaude Barlow & Tony ClarkeEnglish
2003Namaste Sharon✓ — Hindutva and Sharonism Under US Hegemony
Signpost: Issues That Matters
Vijay PrashadEnglish
2003Savarkar and Hindutva✓ — The Godse ConnectionAbdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniEnglish
2003The Empire of Capital✓Ellen Meiksins WoodEnglish
2003The War on Terror✓ — Reordering the WorldNinan KoshyEnglish
2004Breaking Barriers✓ — Stories of Twelve WomenParvathi MenonEnglish
2004Che Guevara ReaderDavid DeutschmannEnglish
2004Environmentalism and the Left✓ — Contemporary Debates and Future Agendas in Tribal Areas
Sign Post: Issues That Matter
Archana PrasadEnglish
2004Global Justice; Liberation and SocialismMaria Del CarmenNot recorded
2004Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Imperialism of Our Time✓Aijaz AhmadEnglish
2004My Early Years; Fidel CastroFidel CastroNot recorded
2005A World to Win✓ — Essays on the Communist ManifestoPrakash Karat & Karl MarxEnglish
2005Breaking Barriers✓ — Stories of Twelve WomenParvathi MenonEnglish
2005Chavez Venezuela and the New Latin America; an Interview with Hugo ChavezHugo Chavez Frias & Aleida GuevaraEnglish
2005Environmentalism and the Left✓ — Contemporary Debates and Future Agendas in Tribal Areas
Signpost: Issues That Matter; 8
Archana PrasadEnglish
2005Government in the FutureNoam ChomskyNot recorded
2005History of the Communist Movement in India, Vol. 1 — The Formative Years, 1920-1933—English
2005Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time✓Aijaz AhmadEnglish
2005Resistible Rise — A Fascism ReaderMargit Köves and Shaswati MazumdarEnglish
2005The Kargil War✓
Signpost; 2
Praveen SwamiEnglish
2005The Warrior and the Charioteer✓ — A Materialist Interpretation of the Bhagavadgita: Including a New Translation of the PoemV. M. MohanrajEnglish
2006Bush in Babylon; the Recolonisation of IraqTariq AliNot recorded
2006Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America — An Interview with Hugo ChávezHugo Chávez Frías & Aleida GuevaraEnglish
2006Dispatches from Latin America✓ — Experiments Against Neoliberalism—English
2006The Market That Failed; a Decade of Neoliberal Economic Reforms in IndiaC. P. ChandrasekharNot recorded
2006Under the Empire✓ — India's Foreign PolicyNinan KoshyEnglish
2006Under the Empire; India's New Foreign PolicyNinan KoshyEnglish
2007Bhagat Singh the Jail Notebook and Other WritingsChaman LalEnglish
2007Bhagat Singh, Liberation's Blazing Star✓P. M. S. GrewalEnglish
2007Bharat SinghGautam B. SinghEnglish
2007Subordinate Ally✓ — The Nuclear Deal and India-US Strategic Relations
Signpost: Issues That Matter -- 9
Prakash KaratEnglish
2007The Agrarian Question in Marx and His Successors✓
LeftWord Classics
Karl MarxEnglish
2007The Jail Notebook and Other Writings✓Bhagat SinghEnglish
2007Uncle Sam's Nuclear Cabin✓
Signpost, Issues That Matter -- 10
Prabir PurkayasthaEnglish
2008Talking About Trees✓ — Science, Ecology, and Agriculture in CubaRichard LevinsEnglish
2009Che✓ — A Memoir by Fidel CastroFidel Castro & David DeutschmannEnglish
2009The Gigantic Casino✓ — Reflections on the World Financial CrisisFidel CastroEnglish
2010"Maoism"✓ — A Critique from the LeftPrasenjit BoseEnglish
2010Capital✓Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward B. Aveling & Friedrich EngelsEnglish
2010E.M.S. Namboodiripad✓ — The Frontline Years: Selected ArticlesE. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
2010History, Society, and Land Relations✓ — Selected EssaysE. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
2010Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism✓Free — A Popular OutlineVladimir Ilʹič Lenin & Prabhat PatnaikEnglish
2010Socialist Register — The Crisis This Time Crisis This TimeLeo PanitchEnglish
2010The Frontline Years✓ — Selected ArticlesE. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
2010The Mahatma and the Ism✓FreeE. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
2011A World to Win✓ — Essays on the Communist Manifesto
LeftWord Classics
Prakash Karat & Aijaz AhmadEnglish
2011Karl Marx, Frederick Engels - On the National and Colonial Questions✓ — Selected WritingsKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Aijaz AhmadEnglish
2011Marx's Capital✓ — An Introductory ReaderVenkatesh B. AthreyaEnglish
2011The Many Careers of D.D. Kosambi✓Free — Critical EssaysD. N. JhaEnglish
2012Dispatches from Pakistan✓
Dispatches
Madiha R. Tahir, Qalandar Bux Memon & Vijay PrashadEnglish
2013Dispatches from the Arab Spring✓ — Understanding the New Middle East
Dispatches
Paul Amar & Vijay PrashadEnglish
2013Haunted by Fire✓ — Essays on Caste, Class, Exploitation and EmancipationMythily SivaramanEnglish
2013The Making of the Madras Working Class✓Tē Vīrarākavan̲English
2013The Poorer NationsFree — A Possible History of the Global SouthVijay Prashad & Boutros Boutros-GhaliEnglish
2014Edward Said on Palestine✓ — With Raja Shehadeh's 2014 Edward Said Memorial LectureEdward W. SaidEnglish
2014From India to Palestine✓ — Essays in SolidarityGitha HariharanEnglish
2015Acting Up✓ — Gender and Theatre in India, 1979 OnwardsA. MaṅkaiEnglish
2015Chittagong Armoury Raid✓ — A MemoirSubodh RoyEnglish
2015No Free Left✓ — The Futures of Indian CommunismVijay PrashadEnglish
2015Reform or Revolution✓FreeRosa Luxemburg & Brinda KaratEnglish
2015The Rise of Islamic State✓ — ISIS and the New Sunni RevolutionPatrick CockburnEnglish
2015Who Was Shivaji?✓Govinda PānasareEnglish
2016Communist histories✓Vijay PrashadGerman
2016Communist Histories✓Vijay PrashadEnglish
2016The Armchair Revolutionary and Other Sketches✓Saʻādat Ḥasan ManṭoEnglish
2016The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution✓Vijay PrashadEnglish
2017Building Alternatives✓ — The Story of India's Oldest Construction Workers' CooperativeMichelle Williams & T. M. Thomas IsaacEnglish
2017Foot Soldier of the Constitution✓ — A MemoirTeesta S vadEnglish
2017India and Communism✓Bhimrao R. AmbedkarEnglish
2017Murder in Mudukulathur✓ — Caste and Electoral Politics in Tamil NaduK. A. ManikumarEnglish
2017Red Star Over the Third World✓Vijay PrashadEnglish
2017Rehearsing Freedom✓ — The Story of a Theatre in PalestineJohanna WallinEnglish
2017The Soviet Woman✓ — Selected EssaysAleksandra Michajlovna Kollontaj & Parvathi MenonEnglish
2017Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt✓ — Writers Respond to Capitalist Climate ChangeNaomi KleinEnglish
2018The Dirty War in Kashmir✓ — Frontline ReportsShujaat BukhariEnglish
2018The Freedom Theatre✓ — Performing Cultural Resistance in PalestineOla Johansson & Johanna WallinEnglish
2018The Kisan Long March in Maharashtra✓Ashok DhawaleEnglish
2018Who Was Shivaji?✓Govinda Pānasare, Anirudh Deshpande & Prabhat PatnaikEnglish
2019Challenges to Indian Fiscal FederalismLekha S. Chakraborty, R. Mohan & T. M. Thomas IsaacEnglish
2019Decoding the RSS✓ — Its Tradition and PoliticsRāvasāheba KasabeEnglish
2019Liberate the Colonies!✓ — Communism and Colonial Freedom 1917-1924John Riddell, Vijay Prashad & Nazeef MollahEnglish
2019Modinama✓ — Issues That Did Not MatterSubhash GatadeEnglish
2019Strongmen✓ — Trump - Modi - Erdoğan - DuterteVijay Prashad, V., Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez & Ninotchka RoscaEnglish
2019The East Was Read✓ — Socialist Culture in the Third WorldDeepa Bhasthi & Vijay PrashadEnglish
2019The End of the Beginning✓ — Lessons of the Soviet CollapseCarlos MartinezEnglish
2019The RSS✓ — A Menace to IndiaAbdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed NooraniEnglish
2020Half a Day for Caste?✓ — Education and Politics in Tamil Nadu, 1952-55Tē Vīrarākavaṉ̲ & Ā. Irā VēṅkaṭācalapatiEnglish
2020Halla Bol✓ — The Death and Life of Safdar HashmiSudhanva DeshpandeEnglish
2020Memoirs of a Dalit Communist✓ — The Many Worlds of R.B. MoreR. B. More, Satyendra R. More & Anupama RaoEnglish
2020Murder in Mudukulathur — Caste and Electoral Politics in Tamil NaduK. A. ManikumarEnglish
2020Noise Uprising✓ — The Audiopolitics of a World Musical RevolutionMichael DenningEnglish
2020Only People Make their Own HistorySamir AminNot recorded
2020Red Star over the Third WorldViajy PrashadNot recorded
2020Reform or RevolutionRosa Luxemberg & Brinda KaratNot recorded
2020-03-01Sr 2009 — Violence TodayPantich, Leo, Leys, ColinNot recorded
2020The East Was Read✓ — Socialist Culture in the Third WorldVijay Prashad & Deepa BhasthiEnglish
2020Washington Bullets — A History of the CIA, Coups, and AssassinationsVijay PrashadEnglish
2020हल्ला बोलYogend Sudhanva DeshpandeNot recorded
2021Delhi's Agony✓ — Essays on the February 2020 Communal ViolenceBrinda Karat & Vijay PrashadEnglish
2021From Volga to GangaRahul Sankrityayan, Maya Joshi, Kanwal Dhaliwal & Victor Gordon KiernanNot recorded
2021Gender and Neoliberalism✓ — The All India Democratic Women's Association and Its Strategies of ResistanceElisabeth ArmstrongEnglish
2021Listen to My Case!✓ — When Women Approach the Courts of Tamil NaduKē CanturuEnglish
2021Paris Commune 150✓Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilʹič Lenin, Bertolt Brecht, Tins Chak & Vijay PrashadEnglish
2021People's Planning — Kerala, Local Democracy & DevelopmentT. M. Thomas Isaac & Richard W. FrankeNot recorded
2021Signs✓Manik BandyopadhyayEnglish
2021This Fire Never Dies✓ — One Year with the PKKFréderike GeerdinkEnglish
2021वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह — ... हैArchana Prasad & Thakur DasNot recorded
2022Arab Marxism and National Liberation✓ — Selected WritingsMahdī ʿĀmil & Hicham SafieddineEnglish
2022Farmers on the Move✓ — The Story of How Kisans Organized in MaharashtraAjita Navale, Medha Kale, P. (Palagummi) Sainath & Ashok DhawaleEnglish
2022Kollontai 150✓ — Selected Writings of Alexandra KollontaiAleksandra Michajlovna Kollontaj, Julia Cámara, Atiliana Vicente Brunetto & Ândrea Francine BatistaEnglish
2022Nothing Will Be Forgotten✓ — From Jamia to Shaheen BaghNehal AhmedEnglish
2022Sabarimala✓ — Social History of a Temple in KeralaJitheesh P. M.English
2022Students Won't Be Quiet✓Satarupa Chakraborty & Pindiga AmbedkarEnglish
2022The 1921 Uprising in Malabar✓ — A Collection of Communist WritingsNitheesh Narayanan, Vijay Prashad & Pinarayi VijayanEnglish
2023Body on the Barricades✓ — Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary IndiaBrahma PrakashEnglish
2023Decolonising the Palestinian Mind✓Haidar Eid & Victoria BrittainEnglish
2023Knowledge As Commons — Towards Inclusive Science And TechnologyPrabir PurkayasthaNot recorded
2023Labouring Lives✓ — Industry and Informality in New IndiaArchana AggarwalEnglish
2024An Education for Rita✓ — A Memoir, 1975-1985Brinda KaratEnglish
2024Decolonising the Palestinian Mind✓Haidar EidEnglish
2024Food & Farming — A Journey Through India in ComicsOrijit Sen, Vidyun Sabhaney & Harsho Mohan ChattorajEnglish
2024Food and Farming✓ — A Journey Through India in ComicsOrijit Sen, Vidyun Sabhaney, Harsho Mohan Chattoraj & Focus on the Global SouthEnglish
2024Mutiny✓ — How Our World Is TiltingPeter MertensEnglish
2024NATO — A Reckoning with the Atlantic AllianceSevim DagdelenEnglish
2025EMS Namboodiripad✓ — A Political BiographyP. Govinda PillaiEnglish