Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production
Rashed Rahman
Karl Marx has not always been well served by his followers. Recall his famous riposte to some of his dogmatic French partisans: “If these are Marxists, I am not a Marxist!”...
Volume 7, No. 11, November 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
The Military-Industrial Backbone of Normalisation
Tariq Dana
In February 2025, as international condemnation of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza reached new heights, Abu Dhabi hosted the International Defence Exhibition and Conference...
From Marx to Mao – And After: III
Contradictions Among the People
Ray Nunes
During the period 1967-1971 a great deal took place. In 1967 there was a lot of faction fighting at all levels. In some areas Red Guards seized arms from the militia...
The War in Ukraine – A History: How the US Exploited Fractures in the Post-Soviet Order – III
Thomas I Palley
Regarding Russia, the neocon playbook was explicitly laid out by former US National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997 in a Foreign Affairs article and a book titled The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives...
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism – IV
The Question of Responsibility
Mahmood Mamdani
Who bears responsibility for the present situation? To understand this question, it will help to contrast two situations, that after WWII and that after the Cold War, and compare how the question of responsibility was understood and addressed in two different contexts...
Pakistan Here and Now: The Language of the Heart – IV
Pursuit of the ‘beloved’
Navid Shahzad
The distinct presence of Islamic practice and an Indo-Persian tradition in Faiz’s poetry strike a distinctly different note from that of Hikmet’s verse which, on the whole, remains largely rooted in Turkish folk tradition as much as it is influenced by the modernist avant-garde movement popular with young Soviet poets known as Futurism...
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