Lal Khan

As the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged with the largest number of seats in the national assembly there were widespread jubilations, mainly amongst the petit bourgeois youth. However the enthusiasm seems to have been somewhat muted and its echoes in society limited. It was tainted by accusations of blatant pre-poll rigging by the establishment that had […]

More than 15 years of Imperialist aggression and occupation combined with harrowing fundamentalist terrorism have devastated Iraq. Despite being decimated, with its economy shattered, state collapsed and society torn asunder a new wave of mass protests is erupting from the womb of Iraq’s rubble. This renewed class struggle has arisen cutting across religious divisions and […]

The granting of bail to former Malir SSP Rao Anwar in the Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case, on July 10 has caused a sense of indignation and distrust towards the judicial system in large swathes of Pakistan’s society, particularly the youth. Anwar, whose involvement in the targeted killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a youth from Waziristan residing […]

On the night of July 1, 2018, Zocalo square — Mexico City’s historic centre framed by palaces and cathedrals built under Spanish rule — was jammed by supporters of Lopez Obrador, dancing to a mariachi band as they waited for the election winner. There was a sense of hope and optimism in the air with […]

Alarm bells of a looming environmental disaster have been sounding in Pakistan as well as the rest of the world. Pakistan’s water scarcity is fast reaching life-threatening conditions in Karachi, Balochistan and several other parts of the country. In megacities the sharply rising heat islands during heat waves in Karachi, the rise of scorching temperatures […]

For the last four decades, Pakistan’s successive military and civilian regimes have submissively followed the dictates of neoliberal economics given by their imperialist bosses and financial institutions. In the present social and political milieu, the corporate media, elite politicians and the state’s aristocracy have been ferociously propagating against workers as the main culprits for the […]

There has been much propaganda that new technological ‘revolutions’ are laying the basis of capitalism’s eternal existence, and hence Marx’s philosophy and prediction of class struggle and socialist revolution have become obsolete. However, a closer look at the history of capitalist evolution and the impacts of technological advances exposes the fallacy of this propaganda. From […]

Last week a new National Internal Security Policy (NISP) report for 2018-2023, formulated by over 120 experts and bureaucrats was released. It made some startling revelations: “The threat of transnational terrorism is rearing its head again. TTP militants have relocated to Afghanistan. The Islamic State (IS) is establishing a footprint in Afghanistan near the Pakistani […]

On May 31, 1968 France was in the grips of revolutionary fervour.It was an epoch of a revolutionary wave sweeping across the world. Belief in internationalist solidarity, the consciousness of being involved in a common fight against capitalism and imperialism were the striking feature of that epoch. By the autumn of 1968, this revolutionary fervour […]

The situation in the backward wilderness of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) has been simmering for the last few years. The British imperialists called these badlands, and therefore carved the region to contain the Pakhtun tribes straddling across their imposed Durand Line of 1893. The Colonial Raj indirectly ruled FATA brutally through the Frontier […]