{"product_id":"steel-fortress","title":"Steel Fortress","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrairie Fire Publishing is proud to present \u003cem\u003eSteel Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e by Renuka (Midko), a short novella drawn from the People's War in India. Based on Comrade Swamy's own account of the 1993 Padkal encounter in Telangana, the work recounts a twenty-four hour battle in which the Sirnapalli guerrilla squad, besieged by police in a village shelter, fought against overwhelming force. Of the six squad members, only the commander survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenuka preserves the voice of the comrade who lived through it, taking up the decisive questions faced by revolutionaries under enemy siege: the discipline required to resist capitulation, the consequences of believing the promises of the class enemy, and above all, the role of the masses — particularly the peasant women of Telangana — as the steel fortress of the people's war. The commander whose story this is, Loketi Chander, went on to serve the revolutionary movement for another thirty-three years across Telangana, Bastar, and Gadchiroli as a member of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Fire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44122367262819,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/2643\/7987\/files\/steel-fortress-cover_6.png?v=1776464572","url":"https:\/\/prairiefirepublishing.com\/products\/steel-fortress","provider":"Prairie Fire Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}