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The Industrial Revolution – I

Rashed Rahman

The Industrial Revolution (IR) in Britain, where it began, did not reveal its repercussions in an obvious and unmistakable way before at least 1830.

Global South Struggles for Socialism and the Workers’ Side of Marxism

Chris Gilbert

Any theory should be adjusted when it conflicts with or diverges from salient features of reality, and Marxism is no exception.

Pakistan’s heyday as US-Iran mediator is a thin veil over its domestic crises

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Field Marshal Asim Munir is riding high on Pakistan’s mediation of US-Iran talks, but the country remains beset by economic crisis, a rapacious elite, IMF-imposed austerity and violent insurgencies

Notes from the Editors (of Monthly Review)

The roots of the current US and Israeli War on Iran go back 73 years to the CIA coup that overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 following the nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

Socialism is slow to mature

Vijay Prasad

While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world.

The Marxist Punjabi Movement: Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan– III

Language and Literature in the Punjabi Movement: “Lok boli, lok vehaar” – the people’s language, the people’s world

Sara Kazmi

“Hamlets will hum again” was a paper published anonymously in 1970 in English as a collective document representing the ideas circulating in the Punjabi public sphere at this point.

Why Imperialism Fears Iran: Insights from Samir Amin

Dr Saulat Nagi

“Violated, dishonoured, wading in blood, dripping filth – there stands bourgeois society. This is it in reality,” Rosa Luxemburg said.

Two Trillion Dollars War

Imran Bajwa

With dust, death and destruction, ravaged by US, Israeli and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ammo temporarily settled in Iran, it’s time to re-calibrate.

پی ایم آر ۲۰۱۹

انقلابی تبدیلی کی معاصر جدوجہد

راشد رحمان

سن 2017 میں اکتوبر 1917 کے روسی اشتراکی انقلاب کی صد سالہ سالگرہ منائی گئی۔ ان دو تاریخوں کے درمیان گزرنے والے سو برس انسانی تاریخ کے سب سے زیادہ پُرتشدد ادوار میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔

ماہ رنگ بلوچ اور پنجاب

داود ظفر ندیم

ماہ رنگ بلوچ کو ملنے والی سزا کے فیصلے نے پاکستان میں انسانی حقوق کے لئے سرگرم کارکنوں کو سخت اضطراب اور صدمے میں متبلا کر دیا ہے ماہ رنگ بلوچ اور صبغت اللہ بلوچ کو گوادر میں سکیورٹی فورسز پر حملے اور تشدد کے ایک مقدمے میں عمر قید کی سزا