The 1946 Revolution – history’s loss! Part II on February 27, 2019As the weeks passed, the mass upheaval of 1946 spread to the other Indian armed forces of the Raj. Nearly 2000 men in the Royal Indian Army Signal Corps mutinied near Jabalpur. There were mini-revolts by Indian gunners in Madras, signallers at Allahabad, and clerical staff at army headquarters in Delhi. Indian officers of the […]
The 1946 Revolution – history’s loss! Part I on February 26, 2019Truth, as they say, is the first casualty of war. The situation of the ruling classes of India and Pakistan is so disdainful that they cannot go to a full-fledged war nor can they sustain a genuine peace. However, in the prevalent crisis sharp border clashes, lethal surgical strikes or some dangerous militaristic act by […]
Kashmir’s agony-II on February 19, 2019External interference and terrorism have inflicted heavy blows against the indigenous movement of the Kashmiri masses spearheaded by the youth. With the failure of the UN and the other international institutions masquerading as peacekeepers and saviours of victims of tyranny, armed struggle has become an intrinsic part of the mass uprising. Various religious terrorist outfits […]
Kashmir’s agony-I on February 18, 2019On February 14, a convoy of the Indian paramilitary police (CPRF) in Kashmir was targeted with a bomb-laden vehicle. 46 paramilitary personnel were killed. The bomber was identified in a video as Adil Dar, a 22-year-old youth from a nearby village. Claimed by Jaish-e-Muhammad, an Islamist terror group, this suicide attack was the deadliest single […]
Is Capitalism mankind’s destiny? on November 12, 2018The genesis of capitalism was based on the power of steam. Ever since, for almost three hundred years, capitalism evolved through different processes and changes that gave it a new impetus. But the basic mechanics of labour exploitation for extracting profits, competition between humans leading to vicious wars and bloodshed, subjugations of nations and oppression […]
50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution on November 5, 2018Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. This amazing revolutionary torrent […]
Saudi brutality and imperialist hypocracy on October 29, 2018The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul’s Saudi Consulate at Istanbul has intensified the diplomatic rows on a world scale due to capitalism’s protracted crisis internationally. After repeated denials the kingdom finally confessed that Khashoggi ‘died’ in a “fist-fight” inside the consulate, without disclosing the whereabouts of his body. Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official […]
Javed’s struggle shall not go in vain on October 22, 2018In the small hours of Sunday 14 October, comrade Javed Iqbal breathed his last at the relatively young age of 57, from stage 4 cancer in Birmingham. For forty-two of those years he had fought for the cause of revolutionary socialism. Javed joined revolutionary politics while still at school, at the tender age of 14, […]
Climate change: Avoiding a total catastrophe? on October 15, 2018The record temperatures for October and the piling filth and solid waste along with severe water shortages in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest metropolitan centre, is tormenting the city’s life. The impoverished and coerced lives of the metropolitan’s ordinary people are further devastated. This additional calamity has also brutalised the daily woes in lives of the oppressed […]
Escalating tensions between US and China on October 11, 2018With the ferocious crisis raging across the world, there are widespread fears of society descending into a new dark age. Old spectres have returned to haunt mankind. Deprivation, mass poverty, protests of the oppressed, terrorism, proxy wars, reactionary tendencies and ostensible vulnerabilities of a new world war loom large. The ongoing tensions between the world […]