This volume contains the first Bengali translations of some of the English Works of Rammohun Roy. These include his: Brief Remarks regarding Modern Encroachments on the Ancient Rights of Females according to the Hindu Law of Inheritance (1822); Press Regulation: Memorial to the Supreme Court (1823); Appeal to the King-in-Council (1823); a letter to an unknown addressee on the political and economic evils of the…

The ongoing cycles of industrialization of the world economy continue to be accompanied by cyclical rise and decline of interrelated political ideologies of imperial and colonial liberalisms and marxisms. This paper proposes that the rise and decline of these ideologies need to be studied in their interconnections: for every society separately, as well as globally. From South Asia such studies may begin with…

A critique of the Chinese ruling class in the second half of the 20th Century by a member of the Minus group.

Including: post-war austerity, IRA hunger strike death, war in Palestine, Tom Brown on the social and general strike, feudalism in Jersey,…

Including: Annie Besant on India and Bolshevism, Russia, Ireland, miners, etc. We do not agree with…

The 23 July 1847 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 2).

The 16 July 1847 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 1).

It is the script of a talk delivered in Kolkata  on the occasion of release of a Bengali translation of a selection of essays on Social and Political issues by Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833). Here the problems of interrelated transformations of the multiple societies of South Asia and those of the rest of the world towards the end of the 20th century are posed and discussed. 

Including: warmongering, workers control and trade unions, new Nazi paper supported by Russia, difficulties producing "Direct Action", strike…

Including: Ramsay MacDonald vs the Bolsheviks. Eugene Debs' speech on imprisonment, work in Russia,…

Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost's 2024 book Dirtbag.

This article interrogates Marx's remarks of 1857-1858 on translation, in light of the history of translation and transmission of texts and ideas in ancient, medieval and modern Eurasia. Marx wrote: "It is no less wrong to compare language with money. When expressed in language, our ideas do not change in such a way that they lose their own characteristics, but retain their social character, like prices next to…