India: Class struggle; Hindutva’s nemesis – Part II on May 28, 2019Hinduvta’s fundamentalist bigotry poses a serious neo-fascist threat. But it seems that the Modi Sarkar will fail to impose a fascist regime along the lines and intensity of the Hitler regime in Germany and Mussolini’s regime in Italy. The main vanguard in resisting such savagery is the existence of Indian proletariat, which has not been […]
India: Class struggle; Hindutva’s nemesis – Part I on May 26, 2019In the Indian elections of 2019, the Hindutva chauvinist BJP led by Narendra Modi swept to a landslide majority. The so-called NDA (BJP’s coalition with its allied parties) won the world’s most expensive election in a country that has the highest concentration of poverty on the planet. India’s corporate bosses opened up their coffers, pouring […]
Veracities of Afghanistan’s saur revolution in 1978: Part – II on April 29, 2019These radical measures sent alarm bells ringing for imperialist interests in the region and sent tremors through the corridors of power in the imperialist capitals. The imperialist sponsored jihad against “communist infidels” wasa counter-revolutionary insurgency to destroy the impacts of these reforms among the masses throughout the whole regionthat was plunged into a deadly conflagration. […]
Veracities of Afghanistan’s saur revolution in 1978: Part – I on April 27, 2019After more than eighteen years of imperialist aggression and occupation of Afghanistan, the US imperialists are losing their longest war in history. They are facing yet another shameful defeat after those in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. Their frustration from this rout is evident in their desperate attempts to unleash another massive bombing campaign and […]
Centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Part II on April 15, 2019Ironically, colonial apologists portray Jallianwala Bagh as a “monstrous” exception to the otherwise benign rule. This brutality is often presented as a one off accidental act committed by one exceptional villain Dyer. Speaking on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the British Parliamentary debate on 8 July 1920, Winston Churchill had said, “That is an episode […]
Centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Part I on April 14, 2019In the late spring of 1919, green meadows in the fertile plains of the Punjab were acquiring a golden hue with the sun’s rising radiance. It was the onset of harvest time. A century ago the near-absence of pollution, the air would have been fresh. With mustard yellow pastures in the periphery of the ripening […]
Neofascist assault on Jawad Ahmad on March 31, 2019On Thursday March 28th the renowned singer, left wing politician and head of Barabri Party Pakistan, Jawad Ahmad was barred from speaking at an event organised in the premises of Faisalabad Arts Council after he had criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan. While speaking at the event his mike was snatched away and dissuaded from continuing […]
Bhagat Singh: the legacy lives on on March 23, 2019Revolutionary struggles erupt with their own dynamics. The legacies, such struggles leave behind are often symbolised by iconic figures. According to the mainstream myths, Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru and other such leaders belonging to the native bourgeois fostered by the Raj led anti-colonial struggle in the Indian subcontinent. This generalised narrative is far from the truth. […]
Merchants of devastation-II on March 6, 2019For the last seventy years, the world’s superpowers and their subservient institutions such as the United Nations have failed to grant the Kashmiri masses any respite. In a startling confession, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres publicly washed his hands of any responsibility to promote a dialogue between India and Pakistan that would pave the […]
Merchants of devastation-I on March 5, 2019Ever since the bloody partition of the South Asian sub-continent in 1947, the endless history of hostility between India and Pakistan has been a curse for the oppressed masses. Periodically, either one of the two regimes turn this mutual hostility into episodes of acute confrontation – mainly in the interests of continuing domestic politics by […]