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The return of the National Question

Chris Harman

Introduction

It has become almost an orthodoxy to say that the great divide in the world today is between nationalisms.

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.

The Last Days of Mankind

Pankaj Mishra

“In the beginning was the press and then the world appeared,” Karl Kraus wrote in 1921. The biblical allusion was no rhetorical flourish.

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.

From the PMR Archives: June 2019

Cultural Identity and State Oppression: Internal Colonialism in Pakistan

Dr Qaisar Abbas

Challenging the conventional wisdom, this article argues that colonialism never left South Asia as it transformed itself into internal colonialism after independence.

Tisaranee Gunasekara

Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms..

The Economic pattern

W B Bland

The military dictatorship of the ‘Karachi’ clique had no wish to change fundamentally the colonial-type economic structure of Pakistan..

North America

Fayyaz Baqir

Starting in 1979 many progressive political activists, journalists, poets, artists and intellectuals moved to Western Europe and North America due to the repression of Ziaul Haq’s regime..