Lal Khan

While the masses have been toiling and trying their utmost to come to terms with the heat, dust, humidity, unrelenting power outages, price hikes, poverty etc., the elite has been busy hurling ritual cyclical summer accusations and counter allegations against each other in this theatre of the absurd. The unseating of PTI MPs and the […]

With the deep and organic crisis of capitalism from advanced capitalist countries to emerging economies and the developing world, and with no sign of recovery, bourgeois commentators are beating the drum again of the ‘end of socialism’. The restoration of US-Cuba diplomatic ties is being portrayed as another ‘defeat’ and failure of the ‘last’ socialist […]

Greece has been in the headlines for weeks now. It has proved to be the weakest link of European capitalism. There are more: Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and others are condemned to the same fate. The debt crisis, default and economic decline in Greece have proved beyond any doubt the failure of capitalism to sustain […]

A grotesque humanitarian disaster looms large as conflagration and mayhem ravages the Middle East. The number of people fleeing the civil war just in Syria has now passed four million, according to the UN’s refugee agency. “This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. It is a population that needs […]

Irrespective of the results of the referendum, the Greek crisis is approaching a denouement. It is a turning point for the working class of Greece and the whole of Europe: the failure of capitalism in Greece to sustain a social welfare state and develop society. The hypocrisy, lies, vengeance, greed, callousness and retrogressive character of […]

Christine Lagarde, boss of the International Money Fund (IMF), has warned Greece that there is “no period of grace” after a debt repayment deadline. Greece will be in default on its loans from the IMF if it fails to make a € 1.5 billion payment on June 30, and risks being forced out of the […]

In a country where 78 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, 66 percent faces food insecurity, almost 100 million do not have access to safe water and 93.9 million do not have access to adequate sanitation, the 2015-2016 budget will only multiply miseries for generations to come. Yet the ruling classes and […]

In the last period there has been an increasing tendency of the ruling political elite to use All Parties Conferences (APC) and Joint Investigation Teams (JIT) as instruments to justify state repression, solve their rows on sharing their plunder and dupe ordinary people. However, these masquerades increasingly fail to salvage the delusion of the supposedly […]

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has criticised Iraqi forces for showing no will to fight against Islamic State (IS) during the fall of Ramadi. Al Jazeera later reported, “Iraqi officials are blaming the US for not delivering crucial weapons well before IS mounted their offensive.” The Pentagon chief’s comments reek of hypocrisy and deceit. After […]

Historically, the most relevant significance of judicial decisions is controversial cases of rebels and revolutionaries tried by the various regimes of the ruling classes to eliminate or chastise them. During direct British colonial rule, judicial trials such as the Kanpur Conspiracy Case, the Singapore Mutiny and many prosecutions of the Ghaddar Party revolutionaries, the Meerut […]