Imperialist revelry amidst Palestinians’ slaughter on May 21, 2018Last Monday, as Palestinians’ were being slaughtered by the Zionist sate, Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner were celebrating the inauguration of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli leaders and diplomats from imperialism’s subservient states were eagerly chatting over festive march music pretending to be oblivious of the carnage and the blood […]
Trump’s scrapping of the Iran deal on May 14, 2018In his relentless absurdity, Donald Trump scuttled the Iran Nuclear Deal last Tuesday. He said, “America would not surrender to nuclear blackmail by Iran” and ordered the immediate re-imposing of sanctions against Iran. These were lifted after a six-nation agreement called the ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’ (JCPOA) in July 2015. Trump ignored pleas from […]
Karl Marx’s 200th bicentennial on May 7, 2018May 5 was the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. This birthday is being celebrated at a time when his predictions and perspective are being confirmed by the tumultuous events taking place across the world. The historical paradox is that what has occurred since the collapse of the Soviet Union, capitalist degeneration of the Chinese […]
Afghanistan’s Saur Revolution 40 years on on April 30, 2018On April 27,1978, Radio Kabul was broadcasting that the radical Khalq faction of Afghanistan’s Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) were leading the overthrow of the Daoud regime and storming the presidential palace. Daoud himself took power five years earlier through a coup in 1973.A few days earlier on 17 April 1978, a prominent member […]
Cuba after the Castros on April 23, 2018Since the Cuban revolution of 1959, the Castro brothers Fidel and Raúl were presidents of the socialist republic. Raúl had taken over as the president from his ailing brother Fidel in 2006. Last Wednesday however, the Cuban National Assembly and its 605 members elected Miguel Díaz-Canel as the country’s new president. In the swearing-in speech, […]
Do we have a Pakhtun intifada on our hands? on April 16, 2018The massive April 8 rally in Peshawar, on the call of the PTM (Pakhtun Tahafuz Movement) was unprecedented. This is because participation was genuine and the role of corporate capital, minimal in its organisation. Corporate media’s virtual blackout of the rally, however, was a disgrace to ‘free speech’. The collusion of media barons with the […]
France’s new strike wave on April 9, 2018A new workers’ struggle has arisen in France. A major railway strike brought the country’s railway network to a halt on Tuesday. Its the first main riposte of the French proletariat against President Emmanuel Macron’s neoliberal economic strategy of increased austerity and cuts against the working class. The day of the strike was dubbed ‘Black […]
Remembering Bhutto’s judicial murder on April 2, 2018One of the most popular mass leaders in Pakistan’s history was hanged through the gallows in the late hours of April 4th at the altar of Rawalpindi’s central jail. Bhutto had spent his last birthday — his 51st — in the death cell and was physically frail when taken to the gallows. There was a […]
Bhagat Singh’s unfinished struggle on March 26, 2018On March 23, 1931 Bhagat Singh, along with his comrades Sukhdev and Raj Guru were hanged. Their bodies were burnt, stuffed in gunny bags and dumped on the banks of the Sutlej, miles from the Lahore Central Jail. Today — no memorial of these revolutionaries exists at the site (Shadman Chowk) of their execution. Yet […]
Palestine’s arduous struggle for liberation on March 19, 2018Prime Minister Hamdallah, who heads the Palestinian Authority ‘government’ based in the West Bank town of Ramallah, survived a bomb blast attack during his visit to Gaza on March 13. This incident exhibits the convoluted and chronically disrupted struggle for the ending of Israeli occupation and the socioeconomic liberation of ordinary Palestinians. It’s not just […]