Marx’s analysis of capitalism
Rashed Rahman
The initial chapter of Karl Marx’s major work Capital Vol 1 first deals with commodities, after which he proceeded to show how money is transformed into capital…
Volume 8, No. 10, October 2026
Editor: Rashed Rahman
Marx’s analysis of capitalism
Social Power is built before it is seen
Vijay Prashad
While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age…
From Subjects to Citizens: Pakistan’s Unfinished Independence
Mohammed Qazilbash
Nearly eight decades after independence, Pakistan must confront a difficult truth: the colonial ruler left, but the colonial relationship between state and citizen did not…
Huge scandal exposes how US uses criminals to manipulate elections in Latin America
Ben Norton
Far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Using bots, disinformation, fraud, he oversaw campaigns of Latin America’s right-wing, pro-US presidents, with deep links to Trump admin…
Empire as a Way of Life
Tariq Ali
In a rare public statement, George W. Bush warned a few days ago that blowback is always inevitable…
Pakistan: Anti-Terrorism Bill Threatens Fair Trials
Punjab Provincial Assembly Should Develop Rights-Respecting Protections
HRW Press
(New York, September 11, 2026) – The Punjab provincial assembly in Pakistan on August 31, 2026, passed a bill that would threaten the right to a fair trial in counterterrorism proceedings, Human Rights Watch said today…
Balochistan’s Imbroglio: A Marxist Gramscian Perspective – II
Saulat Nagi
Bhutto’s era became what Gramsci calls a “Caesarist parliamentary dictatorship”, resembling the elected dictatorships of Depretis, Crispi and Giolitti in Italy. It absorbed the opposition or eliminated it…
The Necropolitics in Balochistan: Memoirs, Emotions, Identity – II
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Conflicts mean death and destruction for the colonised because the coloniser’s greed and racism is insatiable and knows no limits or boundaries…
Preserving Pakistan
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
There are ultimate questions that arise at critical times in a person’s or nation’s existence. They bear on the continued existence of the person or nation concerned…
Jahanzeb Tipu: Obituarising a Man Who Refuses to Die
Abbas Zaidi
In some cases, life and death do not exist in binary opposition because death may be a form of life and vice versa…
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