Lal Khan

This year May Day falls at a time when severe crisis of capitalism has led to an unprecedented onslaught against the working class of many countries. For over 130 years, tens of millions have expressed their determination on this historic day, again and again, to rid the world of oppression, war and poverty against naked […]

On the 23rd of March 1931, 23-year-old Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary icon in the struggle for liberation and emancipation of the masses in the Indian subcontinent, and his comrades in arms, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru, were hanged at Lahore’s central jail. The British imperialists were terrified of a radicalised left revolutionary current taking […]

The burning down of 178 houses on the night of March 8 and 9 in Joseph Colony, a Christian neighbourhood near Badami Bagh in the heart of Lahore is yet another fanatical incident that reflects the malaise afflicting Pakistani society. A vigilante mob carried out this act of savagery on the pretext of allegedly blasphemous […]

Hundreds of thousands of the Venezuelan masses poured onto the streets of Caracas and other cities, towns and villages to mourn and pay tribute after the death of an icon who had championed the cause of the oppressed and the proletariat in a manner seldom seen in recent history. But the grief at Hugo Chavez’s […]

Hundreds of thousands of the Venezuelan masses poured onto the streets of Caracas and other cities, towns and villages to mourn and pay tribute after the death of an icon who had championed the cause of the oppressed and the proletariat in a manner seldom seen in recent history. But the grief at Hugo Chavez’s […]

Ever since the verdict of a death sentence to Delawar Hossain Sayedee and life imprisonment against Abdul Qadir Mullah, chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, for crimes against humanity committed during the civil war in 1971, Bangladesh has been embroiled in violent clashes in which more than 50 people have been killed. This turmoil comes in the background […]

The political debate in the ruling elite is shrouded in the issue of corruption. Its eradication is being portrayed as the recipe for the social and economic salvation of this country. The most vociferous leaders on this issue are an integral part of the military, civilian and bureaucratic elite, notorious for their corrupt practices and […]

There has been an aggressive campaign in the media that the recipe for growth and solution of the economic crisis is privatisation and of industry, agriculture, finance capital and the economy. Nationalisation has been dubbed as a failure and an economic disaster. The burgeoning losses and corruption in PIA, WAPDA, Railways, Pakistan Steel Mills and […]

Although there is a deafening din of fierce political rhetoric and debate in the media and the domineering political brouhaha of the ruling elite, yet there is a stark indifference towards politics amongst the ordinary people. There is such a raucous blare and yet such a poignant silence of the people. This is not without […]

With the inability of Hugo Chavez to take oath for another presidential term on January 10, speculations in the media are rife not just about the prospects of Chavez’s recovery from the cancer he is afflicted with, but also about the fate of the revolutionary process that has been ongoing in Venezuela for more than […]