Socialist resurgence in Britain on June 18, 2017Inspite of winning the highest number of seats and votes on June 8, the Conservative Party came out as a loser in latest British general elections. Theresa May had been so assured of her victory that she campaigned with a thinly veiled contempt for the masses and refused to debate with her rivals. The Tories […]
Repercussions of the escalating Qatar-Gulf conflict on June 11, 2017On June 5th, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain and others announced severing diplomatic relations with Qatar and cutting of air, sea and land links. The seemingly irrelevant alliance Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) suddenly seems to be perilously splintering. Wednesday’s attack on Iran’s national parliament and shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini has been blamed on Saudi […]
Electricity woes on June 4, 2017The PML-N government came to power with a ‘heavy mandate in 2013 but it remained one of the most unstable and fragile regimes in Pakistan. What has sustained the regime is the domination of non-issues braced and hyped by the opposition parties who have no real differences on the basic economic and class policies of […]
Trumps divisive crusades on May 28, 2017Donald Trump’s first foreign sojourn that began in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia moving on to Jerusalem and Vatican the bastions of the three theistic religions has clear implications for the resurgence of the US’ imperialist policy of religious rivalry and hatred, albeit with the rhetoric of peace and religious harmony. It has also been used to […]
Impasse in Pak-Afghan relations on May 21, 2017In the last few months the relations between the Pakistani state and the imperialist’s contrived puppet regime in Kabul have been deteriorating rapidly. Inspite of statements of improvements and negotiated peace deals the skirmishes are spiralling in a dangerous trajectory. But within the two countries the menace of fundamentalist terror has been striking what seems […]
Resolving S Korean crisis on May 14, 2017South Korea’s newly elected president Moon Jae-in’s inauguration normally would have taken weeks, but he was sworn-in within hours of his victory announcement. These are turbulent times. South Korea has the Asia-Pacific’s worst income inequality, rising youth unemployment and anaemic growth. Chronic tensions with the North are escalating again. A South Korean newspaper editorial warned, […]
Dissecting Marxism on May 7, 2017The 199th birth anniversary of Karl Marx was celebrated on May 5 this year. Once again Marx has been the subject of criticisms, and the raucous din of ‘Marxism has failed’. Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and reversion of the Chinese bureaucracy to a market economy, […]
Class struggle continues on April 29, 2017Every year, Labour Day is observed the world over in memory of American workers who lost their lives on May 1, 1886, when the police forces in Chicago opened indiscriminate fire on a demonstration of workers. Over 200,000 workers had participated in the protest demanding an eight-hour work day. When they reached the Hay Market, […]
Workers oppression in Modi’s India on April 23, 2017 Under the garb of Hindutva chauvinism, the rhetoric of development, poverty alleviation and gimmickry of anticorruption, the Modi regime in today’s India has launched an aggressive onslaught against India’s proletariat and the oppressed masses ever since it has come to power. These brutal assaults on the working class are worsening with every passing […]
Challenging barbarity on April 15, 2017 The gruesome murder of Mashal Khan is yet another incident that illustrates that ours is a diseased society with elements of pre-medieval barbarism looming more viciously. There is no proof whatsoever of Mashal Khan’s blasphemous remarks on social media or elsewhere. Photographs of his vandalised hostel cubicle show portraits of Karl Marx and Che […]