Volume 7, No. 2, February 2025
Editor: Rashed Rahman
How to understand the change of government in Syria
Vijay Prashad
One of the most stunning events of the past few months has been the fall of Damascus. This fall had initially been expected over a decade ago, when rebel armies funded by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the US crowded around the edges of Syria and threatened then President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
A memoir of the 1950s (Pakistan)
Eric Rahim
I start with some ‘pre-history’.
During the 1880s the economic landscape of Western Punjab (now part of Pakistan) was radically reshaped. Through a vast irrigation project, consisting of a network of canals, large tracts of arid and barren lands were brought under cultivation.
The Pakistani Revolution – VI
Land Reform and Basic Democracy
W B Bland
In keeping with the facade of presenting the military coup of October 1958 as a ‘revolution’, within two weeks of its establishment the military dictatorship appointed a Land Reforms Commission, headed by Akhtar Hussain, Governor of West Pakistan.
The Rise of Baloch Nationalism and Resistance – XVII
Are we Fascists?
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Nationalists who demands rights that they are denied and against whom the state commits injustices with impunity are condemned out of hand even by the liberals who do not really care for the people’s rights.