Category: History

February 18, 2023 marks the fifty-third anniversary of the first encounter killing in Kerala. This was also one of the earliest encounters in independent India. Arikkad Varghese was the man who was brutally murdered fifty-three years ago, a man who was part of the revolutionary struggle in Kerala and who had led the Adivasis in…

“अन्याय के खिलाफ, दमन के खिलाफ, जनता की हिंसा भड़क उठना अस्वाभाविक नहीं है। जब तक एक वर्ग द्वारा दूसरे वर्ग को दबाया जायेगा तब तक यह सब वर्ग संघर्ष के चालू नियम से ही होता रहेगा।” – शंकर गुहा नियोगी मध्य भारत में जब मजदूर आन्दोलन की बात होती है तो छत्तीसगढ़ के एक…

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their…