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Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.This episode contains the essays "8 March and the Women's Movement in India" and "International Women's Day: Past and Present."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in.This part includes sections 1 and 2 of chapter 5.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Anuradha Ghandy was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose decades-spanning revolutionary career included the Indian student movement, the trade union movement, and work in the CPI (Maoist)-led people's war. Remembered by her comrades and the communities she worked and fought with as a tireless revolutionary, she is best known outside of India for her work on women's issues and questions of caste. Scripting the Change is a collection of Comrade Anu's most important works on the above-mentioned issues, as well as pieces on the revolutionary movement in India more broadly.This episode contains the essay "The Revolutionary Women's Movement in India."I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

The podcast delves into the dangers of Hindutva fascist forces and their impact on marginalized groups. It explores patriarchal biases within fundamentalist movements and the suppression of women's independence. The discussion also highlights the violent manifestations of patriarchy and fascism in Gujarat, showcasing how women are weaponized for political gains.

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in. This part includes chapter the final sections of chapter 4.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

The Mariátegui Project is a project from Natú Pizzella, who also makes free audiobooks of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and other revolutionary content. This project comes in response to the relative lack of availability of José Carlos Mariátegui’s works in English. Other than an anthology of his works released by Monthly Review Press, and his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, the vast majority of his writings remain inaccessible to most English speakers. The goal of this project, then, is to slowly but surely make the remainder of Mariátegui’s works available in English. This is a reading of a translation available on the Mariátegui Project website.This piece is from the Crisis of Socialism section of the Contemporary Scene.Read this and other Mariátegui translations here:https://jcm-project.com/I collect no fees or advertising money by sharing translations or readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in.This part includes part 2 of chapter 4.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in.This part includes part 1 of chapter 4.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

On September 11, 1973, the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown in an imperialist-backed coup d’état, leading to the death of president Salvador Allende and thousands of leftist activists and sympathizers over the course of decades of repressive dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.In “Chile: An Attempt at ‘Historic Compromise,’” author and Chilean Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) member Jorge Palacios paints a different picture of the Popular Unity government from the more sympathetic renderings of many non-revolutionary leftists, tracing the tragic implosion of the Chilean economy and eventual coup to the conciliatory “peaceful transition to socialism” model adopted by the Communist Party of Chile and the Popular Unity. By failing to adhere to Leninist principles and ignoring lessons learned in the Chinese revolution regarding the revolutionary path of semi-feudal, semi-colonial countries like Chile, these elements rendered the country vulnerable to manipulation and sabotage from within and without. Palacios’ analysis and the lessons of the Chilean experience are invaluable today, as so many progressive impulses in Latin America are funneled into electoralist politics that have failed to dig those countries out of the entrenched subservience to imperialism they find themselves in.This part includes chapter 3.You can read this text at:https://archive.org/details/ChileJorgePalacios/mode/2upI collect no fees or advertising money by sharing readings of important texts. If you would like to help cover the costs of equipment, hosting fees, and materials to allow me to continue sharing revolutionary, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial writings, you can become a Patron at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true