Venezuela at the crossroads on April 18, 2016The elections being held today, October 7, 2012 in Venezuela are of immense historical significance. The results of this election will have a crucial impact not just in Venezuela but far beyond its frontiers on the consciousness of the masses and the dynamics of the class struggle. There has been an enormous consternation and interest […]
Bhagat Singhs revolutionary legacy on April 18, 2016This September 28 marked the 105th birth anniversary of one of South Asia’s iconic revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh. His heroic struggle for a revolutionary change and overthrow of the British Raj through a militant struggle has been a source of inspiration for generations. Bhagat was executed by the imperialist despots in the wee hours of March […]
Murtaza Bhutto: what he really stood for on April 17, 2016Sixteen years ago on September 20, 1996, in the dusk falling into darkness, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, aged 42, was riddled with the bullets of this ferocious state. He was assassinated along with six of his comrades in front of his house, 70 Clifton, Karachi — the most renowned political address in Pakistan. At the time, […]
Is occupation and violence Kashmirs destiny? on April 16, 2016A new spate of violence and brutal state repression erupted this week in the Kashmir valley occupied by Indian army, resulting in the killing of four including a woman. Another protestor was killed in police firing in Kupwara on Wednesday. The victims were protesting against the alleged assault of a schoolgirl by an Indian soldier […]
It is not a national tragedy on April 16, 2016The horrific factory fire at a Karachi garments and clothing enterprise where 289 workers — men, women and children — perished and hundreds were injured with severe burn wounds in an inferno in a caged factory with sealed gates is not an exception but the norm for the proletariat in Pakistan. It lays bare the […]
The US and the ghosts of 9/11 on April 15, 2016Eleven years since the bestial terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the world has passed through an extremely turbulent period of wars, terrorism and bloodshed, economic and social catastrophes. This horrific incident was a turning point in history. Its imagery is etched into the collective psyche. Almost 3,000 American workers perished in this calamity. […]
The disintegration scenario on April 14, 2016Since its inception, Pakistan has been plagued by volatility and chaos engendering speculations about the survival and integration of this state created on the basis of religion. With the passage of time this debate of a breakup scenario has somewhat intensified. The secession of East Pakistan in 1971 gave a certain credence to the arguments […]
Elites burgeoning crisis on April 9, 2016Since its creation almost 70 years ago through one of the bloodiest partitions in modern history, Pakistan has never had any prolonged and genuinely stable and prosperous periods in its chequered history. Mass migrations in societies beset by organic crisis of the historically obsolete and economically redundant socioeconomic systems only end up aggravating the crisis, […]
PPPs dilemma on April 2, 2016Thirty-seven years ago in the night between 3rd and 4th April, 1979, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the elected prime minister and an iconic popular leader created by the 1968-69 upheaval, was assassinated through the gallows by the draconian dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq. Paradoxically, Zia ended up making Bhutto a historical symbol of struggle against oppression and […]
Obamas Cuba visit: is revolution imperilled? on March 27, 2016The visit of the US president Barak Obama to Cuba this week has been proclaimed as historic but the corporate media are giving it the notion that it is the beginning of the end of the last bastion of socialist system and restoration of capitalism in Cuba. In a period of deep capitalist crisis such […]