Remembering Rajani Palme Dutt, 50 years on
Rajani Palme Dutt
[Howard Coster/cc] 
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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