October 2025 issue of Revolutionary Democracy published

The October 2025 issue of the English-language Indian Marxist-Leninist theoretical, political, and historical journal Revolutionary Democracy ( revolutionarydemocracy.org ) came out by the morning of October 12th and can be ordered from Red Star Publishers ( redstarpublishers.org ) for $8 dollars, which covers the shipping cost within the US.  For more information about ordering see the website.  Their postal mailbox has been discontinued and payments must be made through PayPal or by special arrangement.  Many of the articles are also posted on Revolutionary Democracy's website.

Brick and mortar bookstores, organizations, and individuals selling copies in Canada, India, the UK, and the USA are listed on the current issue page at revolutionarydemocracy.org , linked at the top of the menu on the left and some are listed below.  

Bookculture – 536 West 112th Street, New York, New York 10025

Center for Marxist Education – 550 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

May Day Books – 301 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 

Red Emma's – 30 West North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Sankofa Video & Books – 2714 Georgia Drive, Washington, DC 20001  

At The Stalin Society and at the National Office of the New Communist Party, both in London, UK 

Janchetna – D-68, Nirala Nagar, Lucknow-226020

Pragatisheel Sahitya Sadan – Indralok Apartment, opposite Allahabad Bank, Patna 800006 

People's Book House – Meher House Cawasji Patel Street Fort, Mumbai-400001

Navodaya Book House – Opp. Arya Samaj Mandir Kathigada, Hyderabad 500027

Mythry Book House – Masjid Lane, Karl Marx Road, Vijayawada 520002, Andhra Pradesh

Prajasakhti Book House – Door No. 27-1-54, Karl Marx Road, Vijayawada-520002, Andhra Pradesh

 

Punjab Book Centre – S.C.O. 1126-27, Sector 22-B, Chandigarh

Anwesha Book Store – Barowary, Chenikutti, Guwahati-781003

Eklavya Prakashani – Malow Ali, Jorhat, Assam-785001

Notun Padathik – Opp. Assam Engineering Institute Chandmari, Guwahati 781003, Assam 

Progressive Book Centre – BHU Campus, Viswanathan Temple Gate, Varanasi, U.P.

Lokayat Prakashan – 883 Lodhon Ki Goli, M.D. Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan 

Keezhaikkaru – c/o A. Mukundan, 16, Arumanaichaavadi, Near Anthonyaar Church, Cantt Palaavaram, Chennai 600043

Progressive Book House – M.L. Nehru Road, Pan Bazaar, Guwahati-781001, Assam 

People's Publishing House – 18A Marina Arcade, G Block, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001

People Tree – 8, Regal Building Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001

Geeta Book Centre – Kamal Shopping Complex  JNU New Campus, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-67

People's Publishing House – J.N.U. New Campus, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-67

Su Ku Ning's Black Holes – Khurai Lamlong Keithal, A.P. Road, Imphal East, Manipur-795002  

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Badruddin Umar (Bengali: বদরুদ্দীন উমর; December 20, 1931 in Bardhaman, Bengal Presidency, British India – after 10am on September 7, 2025 at the Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in Shyamoli, Dhaka, Bangladesh; the funeral prayer met at the Dhaka University Central Mosque and he was interred in the Jurain cemetery late in the afternoon on September 8th); he became a member of the Communist Party of East Pakistan (ML) in 1969 and edited its weekly Shaptahik Ganashakhti February 1970-March 1971; he led the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী ; the BSD-ML or the CPBML; founded in 1976) and he was president of the Bangladesh Krishak Federation (Bangladesh Peasant Federation; founded in 1978), the Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh writers' camp? ; like a writers' union/intelligentsia organization?), and the Jatiya Mukti Council (National Liberation Council; founded in 2003):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badruddin_Umar , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bangladesh_(Marxist–Leninist)_(Umar) , and revolutionarydemocracy.org

Russian communist revolutionary Dmitry Fedorovich Pirozhkov (March 22,m 1946 – June 19, 2025; he is buried in Saint Petersburg's Southern Cemetery); he was a founder and editor of the newspaper Proletarskaya Gazeta, founded in 1999; he appears in a series on YouTube with Georgii Eremin YouTube.com/live/IcoTvSee-YU?si=qlqoQrNcbDrsoZEh  NorthStar Compass?  

An article from Proletarskaya Gazeta is re-posted here:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/01/proletarskaya-gazeta-intrigues-of-us.html

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (Александр Александрович Богданов; born Alexander Malinovsky; August 22, 1873 in Sokółka, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire; now in Poland – April 7, 1928 in Moscow):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov and www.marxists.org/archive/bogdanov/index.htm 

Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (Bulgarian: Георги Димитров Михайлов) / Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Димитров); (June 18, 1882 in Kovachevtsi, Bulgaria – July 2, 1949 at a sanatorium in Barvikha, Moscow; it has been suggested that he was poisoned):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov , revolutionarydemocracy.org , www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html#d , marx2mao.com/Other/Index.html#F&H , and  neodemocracy.blogspot.com  michaelharrison.org.uk/ ?  See a summer calendar post for more details.  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2022/06/on-140th-anniversary-of-georgi.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html ,  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html, etc.

Josip Broz Tito (Tito is an assumed name; May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, now in northern Croatia – May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito and www.marxists.org/archive/tito/index.htm

[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan_Djilas 

Kim Il Sung (김일성 ; born Kim Song Ju or 김성주 ? ; April 15. 1912 in Pyongyang, Korea, Empire of Japan – July 8, 1994 in Hyangsan, North Pyongan, DPR Korea):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung , www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html , and  neodemocracy.blogspot.com (?)  michaelharrison.org.uk/ ?  See a spring calendar post for more details.  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.

Peng Dehuai or Peng Teh-Huai ( 彭德怀 ; October 24, 1898 in Shixiang, Xiangtan County, Hunan, China – November 29, 1974 in Beijing) :  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Dehuai and www.marxists.org/archive/peng-dehuai/index.htm

"Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, Only the Flag Was Red" was in the August 2025 issue of Towards Marxist-Leninist Unity:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-issue-of-towards-ml-unity.html

An En Marcha article is re-posted here:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2017/12/pcmle-in-china-capitalism-is-being.html 

Slightly edited –

Revolutionary Democracy

Volume 2, No. 2     October 2025

Contents:

Military coup in Nepal: Army ousts government and dissolves parliament exploiting the 8th September Gen-Z protest, Karan Varma

The post-July uprising in Bangladesh, Badruddin Umar

Obituaries of Badruddin Umar (1931- 2025)

Comrade Badruddin Umar – the untiring voice of the toiling people of Bangladesh! Revolutionary Democracy

Comrade Badruddin Umar and his Struggle, Shafi Rahman

Badruddin Umar was one of the foremost faces of the Left in Bangladesh who remained undeterred from challenging Oppression, Harsh Thakor

Condolence Meeting.

Obituaries of Dmitry Fedorovich Pirozhkov (1946-2025), Georgii Eremin, Vladimir Nikiforov

P. Sundarayya’s ‘My Resignation’ – Fifty Years On, Aditya Nigam

50 years of CPI(M)'s founding General Secretary's Resignation – what it tells us about the communist movement in India today, Comrades of Bengal

Book Review: ‘Stalin and Indonesia. Soviet Policy Towards Indonesia: Unknown Pages’ by Larisa Elfimova, Aahwan Singh

Disarming the Working Class: Strengthening the State, The New Labour Codes Enacted by the Indian Parliament, CN Subramaniam

 The BJP government's politics of disenfranchising masses in Bihar, Karan Varma

Statement on the current confrontation between the governments of India and Pakistan

50 years of CPI(M)'s founding General Secretary's Resignation –- what it tells us about the communist movement in India today, Comrades of Bengal

Imperialist Trade Attacks and the Erosion of Sovereignty, NTUI

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, Towards Marxist-Leninist Unity, New York

Trump is a continuation of the politics of imperialism, albeit in decline, George Gruenthal

Developments in Bolivia: "Progressivism" is defeated, En Marcha

Final Declaration of the 29th International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America

Declaration of the Meeting of Latin American Parties, Members of the ICMLPO.

The Party’s Struggle against Bogdanov’s Reformist Theories on ‘Proletarian Culture’, A.V. Shchegolov

Letter from Tito to Dimitrov on the Visit of Djilas.

Some Problems of the People’s Democratic Revolution in the DPRK, Vijay Singh

Conversation between I.V. Stalin and the delegation of the DPRK headed by Kim Il Sung, (5 March, 1949)

Record of Stalin's conversation with Kim Il Sung and Peng Dehuai (September 4, 1952)

Further Materials on the Correspondence of Ajoy Ghosh, CPI, with the CPSU(B), 1952