Dr Saulat Nagi

The British neglected the Palestinian bourgeoisie at the expense of Zionist entrepreneurs. ‘Pinhas Rutenberg [a Jewish entrepreneur] was given exclusive rights to use water in the north of the country and an electric company to provide electric supply to almost all Palestine and Transjordan’. The ownership of the Electric corporation was organised in such a […]

For Marx, Indian history is the history of invaders, it finds its parallel in the Palestinian history which is the history of expropriation, and accumulation of capital through dispossession of the periphery by the western capitalism. In the process it applied the logic of supply and demand to the indigenous population, ejecting its larger segment […]

Those were the days of sullen, stupefying silence and despair for the Left, the apocalyptical signs of the Soviet Union’s meltdown were evident. Dizzy heads, bruised hearts, sorrow-scorched bosoms, and unfathomable grief ailed the Marxists. Struggles of decades and sacrifices of millions looked meaningless, and dreams of a better and just world were killed, hope […]

“In Pakistan38 percent of the children under five years of age” UNICEF reports “are stunted”. Stunting, a serious threat for the country, impacts not only physical growth but also the cognitive development of the child perpetually. UNDP has projected the percentage to the mind-boggling 55%. Lack of nutrition awareness and poor hygienic conditions are the […]

“Pakistan’s powerful army chief’’ Aljazeera says, ‘’has called on archrivals India and Pakistan to “bury the past” and move towards cooperation. Bajwa said the economic potential of South and Central Asia had “forever remained hostage” to the India-Pakistan disputes’’. The awakening from the pillows of illusions has not streamed in by a nudge of a […]

Akin to Fanon, Che Guevara could not help experiencing a revolutionary character among the Cuban farmers. During the armed struggle against the Batista regime, the support of the July 26 movement came from the so-called ‘guajiros’, the most oppressed stratum among the Afro-Cuban peasantry, and he did not fail to recognize their help. “The guerrilla”, […]

Not very long ago the world population was flirting with the seven-billion-mark – a majority, as Sartre says, “had the Word”, but very few among them snugged at the top “had the use for it”. The situation has since not changed much. The creators of the world – the workers and peasants – creating it […]

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” in one of Shakespearean tragedies Mark Anthony utters these words of grief to the Romans. Caesar was guilefully murdered by Brutus and Cassius his close aides; they considered his desire of assuming the reign as Roman emperor ambitious and impertinent. […]

In comes the month of December loaded not only with the festivities of Christmas but heralding a winter of discontent for the majority— shoved in the pigeonhole of scarcity and domination— pretending to be living happily in the fake and superimposed contentment. However, some in the lot insist upon scaling the shell of regimented contentment […]