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Editorial: / 20 December 2024
Remembering Rajani Palme Dutt, 50 years on
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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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