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Hamza Alavi

In colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain..

Vijay Prashad

New Year greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Pakistan’s political crisis

Pakistan’s history of political domination by the military, direct or indirect, has hit a terrible snag after the Imran Khan ‘experiment’..

Rashed Rahman

The Left in Pakistan has been marginalised more than ever for the last four decades. Its collapse around 1980-81 was for the usual reasons: factionalism, personality clashes and all kinds of..

Vijay Prashad The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for…

Tapan Bose The notion of human rights, which is essentially a European concept, is relatively new. The idea of common people’s rights against the rulers and privileged classes emerged in 18th century Europe with the rising capitalist class challenging the absolute powers of the monarchy and privileged classes. The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal…

SARA KAZMI

The interface between language and politics in South Asia has had a vibrant, and often times, controversial history in the region..

Rashed Rahman

Capitalism’s triumphalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War in 1991 has not worked out well for the ‘victors’..

September 8, 2022

p>Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research…

Rashed Rahman

This article will attempt to answer the question why the redistribution of land ownership (i.e. land reform) is important and even necessary for our society’s progress and development. Why there remains a crying need to concretely study the question..