February 2026

Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production – IV

The impact of Colonialism

Rashed Rahman

Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic Mode of Production.

How many International Laws can the US break against Venezuela and still get away with it?

Vijay Prashad

The US assault on Venezuela did not begin on January 3, 2026 – but the bombing of the country and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores once again lay bare Washington’s contempt for sovereignty and international law.

Obituary

Mama Qadeer

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

“Your job was to take him away. Your job was to kill him.You have done your job. I can do the rest myself.” These words were spoken by Abdul Qadeer Baloch, Mama Qadeer, after a Deputy Commissioner offered to help him recover his son Mir Jalil Reki’s body.

Bhutto, Yahya and Tikka Khan

One Civilian, Two Army Men

Jagdeesh Ahuja

After the 1965 Pakistan-India war, Pakistan’s then Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto revolted against his ‘Daddy’, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, and raised the banner of Pakistani chauvinism by shouting the fanatical slogan of “fighting India for a thousand years even if we have to eat grass.”

From Marx to Mao – And After – VI

Why a Cultural Revolution?

Ray Nunes

Late in his life Mao said: “Our country at present practices a commodity system, the wage system is unequal too, as in the eight-grade wage scale, and so forth.

From the PMR Archives: December 2019

Is China still a revolutionary socialist country? – I

Rashed Rahman

Since Mao Tse Tung’s demise in 1976 and Deng Xiao Ping’s rise to paramount leader in 1978, China has been transformed in ways that have won open and enthusiastic acclaim by the capitalist world and even (sometimes grudging) admiration by Leftists globally.

From the PMR Archives: January 2020

Is China still a revolutionary socialist country? – II

Rashed Rahman

In the name of ‘socialist modernisation’, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) since 1978 imposed markets on the economy by government fiat, forcibly broke up the communes in favour of family contracts on the land they tilled