May 2024

Vijay Prashad

Fifty years ago, on April 25, 1974, the people of Portugal took to the streets of their cities and towns in enormous numbers to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novo (‘New State’), formally established in 1926.

Robert P Hager

Introduction

Much of the Cold War took place in the Third World. The three works authored by Gregg A Brazinsky: Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War; Jeffry James Byrne: Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order, and Jeremy Friedman: Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, are reviewed here and they provide historical details.

Berch Berberoglu

Introduction

The resurgence of nationalism and ethnonationalist conflict in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its associated Eastern European states in their transition from a form of socialism to a market-oriented direction led by bourgeois forces allied with world capitalism during the decade of the 1990s has prompted a new round of discussion and debate on the origins and development of nationalism and the nation-state that has implications for contemporary nationalism and nationalist movements in the world today.

Saulat Nagi

“If you have tears,” Shakespeare says, “prepare to shed them now.” The electoral farce is over, but its spectre continues to haunt the Pakistani Praetorian Guard driven by an unquenchable desire to keep an iron-fisted control over Pakistan’s polity.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

In what follows I will describe my journey through the pitfalls of US academia from my graduate student days in the 1980s to a tenured full professorship, and how I’ve experienced repeated attempts at silencing and censorship.

NSO launches itself

First Major Political Statement

Visit of American Student Delegation to Punjab University in Lahore

From November 1969 to December 1970 – when the first general elections were held in Pakistan – the National Students Organisation (NSO) found many strategic opportunities to demonstrate its power.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Disappeared persons and Baloch response

Abdul Qadeer Reki aka Mama Qadeer had been sitting on token hunger strike outside Press Clubs in Quetta and Karachi since July 28, 2009.