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The prospects for revolution today

Rashed Rahman

In stark contrast with the 20th century that witnessed some three dozen revolutions, some successful, others not so, the dawn of the 21st century was ushered in in a climate of scepticism about the prospects for any further revolutions..

GO TO YAN’AN: CULTURE AND NATIONAL LIBERATION

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

The Chinese communist base area of Yan’an was a literal and metaphorical stage for envisioning, experimenting, and building a new society and a new human being..

The elephant in the room

Gemini One of the persistent phenomena of human and legal rights violations in Pakistan is that of so-called ‘missing persons’. This is a euphemism for Enforced Disappearances, whereby citizens are spirited away to unrevealed detention locations for years on end without redress. The rough estimate of how many people have been ‘disappeared’ hovers between 5,000-7,000….

Book Review

Finding the Enemy Within:Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan

by Dr. Sana Ashraf

Matrix of war

Tony Wood The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launched by the Kremlin after months of rising tensions, quickly generated a flood of casualties and several million refugees, as well as bringing the senseless destruction of cities and towns. A negotiated peace may yet bring it to an end. But amid the continued…

The life of a great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad

Vijay Prashad

Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, 2022, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends..

How Pakistan can find a Development-First path to peace in Balochistan

Justin Podur

The disappearances and killings of Baloch activists living in Pakistan and abroad under mysterious circumstances..

Book Review – Secession and Security

Explaining State Strategy against Separatists

by Dr Ahsan Butt

On the conflict created by US-NATO-Europe in Ukraine to target Russia

Taurus

The present hostilities that have flared up on the matter of Ukraine must be treated with great concern..

Book Review

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SAYYID AHMAD KHAN

Reviewed by: Prof S. Akbar Zaidi, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Every day as I travel to my university in Karachi, I first pass a building with the name, ‘Aligarh Institute of Technology’, a private polytechnic established in 1989 by the..

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