Volume 8, No. 10, October 2026
Editor: Rashed Rahman
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The Marxist Punjabi Movement: Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan – II
Post-colonial continuities
Sara Kazmi
Post-1947, the situation has remained unchanged.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom
Tricontinental Asia
On the anniversary of Vietnam’s liberation, the
The Material Basis of a Spectre: Why China’s Youth Are Rediscovering Mao
Yinhao Zhang
A Spectre’s Return
A spectre is haunting China – Mao Zedong.
Ms Rachel learns about Genocide
Changez Ali
Can you say Genocide? Say it back with me: G.E.N.O.C.I.D.E – Genocide. Hurrah. Among the litany of horrors and cruelties
Ash on the Lamps of Learning: How Cambridge Blinked
Roshaan Khattak
When silence settled over the cloisters, one voice refused to dim: transnational repression met university silence and a scholar fought to keep the light on at Cambridge.
The Rise and Fall of the Left and the Maoist Movements in Pakistan
Ishtiaq Ahmed
Between the late 1960s and early 1970s, Maoist ideas gained considerable popularity and influence in left politics and the labour movement, and made an impact on Pakistani mainstream politics
The War against Islamabad’s Katchi Abadis
Alia Amirali
In October 2025, a team of surveyors sent by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) began a data collection exercise in Muslim Colony
How civil society reads India-Pakistan signals amid the West Asia War
Rita Manchanda
What do civil society peace activists, especially the cross-border ‘people-to-people’ dialogue enthusiasts, say about the growing buzz around a senior political ideologue
Kashmir and the Contradictions of the Neo-Colonial State
Dr Saulat Nagi
What is happening in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) must be seen in a larger canvas with a Marxist lens.
A War Lost and Won: A New World emerging?
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
(I am human enough never to want to murder almost two hundred little schoolgirls. But I am also weak and evil enough to do it – without any apology!