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Remembering Rajani Palme Dutt, 50 years on
Rajani Palme Dutt
FIFTY years ago today Rajani Palme Dutt passed away, depriving British Marxism of one of the most powerful and militant intellects of its history.
A founder of the Communist Party and one of its leaders for over 40 years, Dutt was a remarkable theoretician whose achievements stand out the more sharply against the background of the preponderant pragmatism of the British labour movement.
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