Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production – II
Rashed Rahman
Marx and Engels say: “History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth”, it “wages no battles...
Volume 7, No. 12, December 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
On Bearing Witness
Samer Attar, M.D.
Why should we bear witness to others’ suffering, knowing that it may scar our minds or stain our conscience? In part, it’s because when we meet someone in distress or read in the news about victims of a bomb, a flood, or an illness, they’re all us...
How long can China play the “rare earths card”?
Arnaud Bertrand
This is probably the most important geopolitical question in the world right now: for how long can China play the “rare earths card”? It’s now well established this gives China considerable leverage...
Journalists Face Arrest, Torture; Journalists in Exile at Risk of Forced Return
Afghanistan: Taliban Tramples Media Freedom
The Taliban have gutted Afghanistan’s media since taking control of the country in August 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says...
Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South
Vijay Prashad
Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism...
Israel after Fordow
Susan Watkins
In a matter of months, Israel has struck at four states, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran, exploiting its present aerial supremacy over the region...
“A Land of Slaves Shall Never Be Mine”
Saulat Nagi
The US flunkies – for some, its poodles – gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, not to deliberate but to endorse their master’s voice...
From Marx to Mao – And After: IV
The ‘Four Modernisations’
Ray Nunes
The Coup d’Etat
Mao’s faith in Hua Kuo-feng turned out to be premature. Less than a month after his death, in conjunction with a group of so-called ‘moderates’, Hua, who had become Party and State Chairman and also Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission...
Pakistan Here and Now: The Language of the Heart – V
The Significance of Hope
Navid Shahzad
Lyrical as Hikmet’s poetry is, it can be just as chilling in its matter of fact narration of the brutality that human beings are capable of...
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