Lal Khan

The tactic of armed struggle continued until the 1980s but proved to be futile. However, the revolutionary upheaval of 1987, the first Intifada, shook the Israeli state and its tremors were even felt in the corridors of power in Washington, Paris and London. That led to the beginning of the process of a negotiated settlement […]

Gaza was yet again up in flames this week. The brutal aggression of the reactionary Israeli state, killing and maiming more than a hundred Palestinians including women and children, once again lays bare the draconian nature of the Zionist elite and the vicious role of this imperialist outpost in the Middle East. This has come […]

On Wednesday, November 14, an unprecedented wave of class struggle swept across Europe. In 23 countries, involving 40 unions, there were general strikes, protests and demonstrations against the austerity cuts and attacks on living standards by the incumbent regimes trying to sustain a decaying and crisis-ridden capitalism in the continent. This ‘Day of Action and […]

In spite of the thick and voracious din of the meaningless political rhetoric being churned out in barren debates, there is an underlying gloom of political indifference in society. Although there have been innumerable sporadic outbursts and protests by the oppressed masses against the ferocious socio-economic attacks, a widespread mass revolt has not yet erupted. […]

Lenin struggled against this degeneration before his early death in 1924. Lenin’s last testament which criticised and called for a struggle against this bureaucratic deformation was concealed in the iron vaults of the Kremlin, and finally exposed in 1956 at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. But the hostile objective conditions, the exhaustion of the […]

After the victorious insurrection, Lenin spoke to the All Russia Congress of the Soviets: “We shall now proceed to build, on the space cleared by historical rubbish, the airy, towering edifice of socialist society.” The revolution ushered in a new era of socioeconomic transformation. Landed estates, heavy industry, corporate monopolies and the commanding heights of […]

Sometimes decades pass and not much happens. At other times more events take place in days than those that occurred in decades. After the collapse of the Soviet Union twenty years ago we were relentlessly told the great political and economic questions had all been settled and that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism had triumphed. […]

The ruling of the Supreme Court in the Asghar Khan case has laid bare the burgeoning intrinsic conflicts between and within the most vital institutions of the state, the titans, the political executive, military establishment and the judiciary. The judgement reprimands the ISI for doling out millions to the rightwing and religious politicians and parties […]

The political apathy that prevails amongst the deprived and oppressed masses in Pakistan reflects the deep malaise and despair that has set in in society. The mammoth reception that Benazir Bhutto was accorded five years ago on her return from exile to Karachi on October 18, 2007 that had raised new hope for the masses […]

The reactions of the political elite during the recent caricature of a long march launched and abruptly ended halfway by Imran Khan were either hysterical or comical. The Jamaat-e-Islami and other religious outfits that supported it are trying to create an extreme rightwing political force at the behest of sections of the state. The commercial […]