Lal Khan

This October marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most heinous genocides of human history,whichtook place in a reactionary counter-revolution in the Indonesian Archipelago in1965. The executioners of this massacre were the military,mullahs and US imperialism, an unholy alliance to crush a communist upsurge that could have led to a socialist revolution in this […]

True to its cause of serving the interests of rotten Pakistani capitalism, the current PML-N regime has unleashed aggressive neo-liberal policies stashing massive wealth into the coffers of the already obscenely rich. Paradoxically, a socioeconomic onslaught is wreaking havoc upon the oppressed classes. The imperialist institutions and rating agencies have never lauded a regime in […]

The stunning victory of Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour party is a turning point in British politics. It represents a political earthquake of monumental proportions. Michael Meacher, the veteran Labour politician, has correctly described the Corbyn campaign as “the biggest non-revolutionary upturning of the social order”. It has sent a message of […]

History has repeatedly seen how obsolete socioeconomic systems have unravelled in the face of ruling classes and oppressive states despite their trickery and deceit. The crisis of the system is so severe that Pakistan’s ruling elite finds itself totally incapacitated and impotent in harnessing the disparaging, malignant tentacles of this cancerous system. Such is the […]

The main opposition in India, the Congress Party, was not only decimated in the May 2014 elections, its fortunes are still languishing. Most other bourgeois parties are regionally limited and are based on caste, creed, ethnicity, linguistic and narrow nationalistic, communal and religious prejudices. The CPI and the CPI (M) dominated the states of Bengal, […]

The general strike called by the 10 largest central trade unions (CTUs) on September 2 was a tumultuous success. The trade union and communist leaders who had anticipated a maximum of 100 million workers participating in the strike were flabbergasted at the sight of more than 150 million coming out on a total one-day general […]

In the current juncture, Pakistan’s foreign policy and diplomatic stature have taken a nosedive. It was probably the first time diplomats from its main western and eastern neighbours, Afghanistan and India, were summoned to the foreign office to protest border ‘violations’ on the same day. The surge in terrorist attacks in Kabul in recent weeks […]

On June 6, 1946, Jinnah and the Muslim League accepted the Constitutional Award. By doing this Jinnah in fact rescinded the Pakistan Resolution of March 23, 1940, passed in the Lahore Declaration, and abandoned the demand of partition of the subcontinent. Meanwhile, Congress presidency passed from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to Jawaharlal Nehru in May […]

Official historians in India and Pakistan never missed an opportunity to paint elite, nationalist politicians as having led the “independence struggle”. The decisive role of the naval uprising and the revolutionary wave raging across the subcontinent was conceded by then Prime Minister (PM) Clement Attlee a decade later as a guest of P V Chakraborty, […]

August 14 and 15 are celebrated with great pomp, ceremony and fervour by Pakistan and India as independence days from direct British imperialist rule. The official historians of the ruling elites in India, Pakistan and Britain have their baked versions reflecting the class interests of their ruling elites and interpretations of the magnificent struggle waged […]