Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2020)

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus..

Pedagogy through e-learning in Pakistani Universities

Prof Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

After 9/11, the Covid-19 pandemic is a major cataclysmic event post-World War II, which has affected all walks of life – governments..

Can Pakistan overcome the existential challenge?

Javed Masud

In the last several months, the government and its spokespersons have spared no opportunity to indulge in self-praise about the deft manner in which the corona pandemic has been handled..

PTI coalition unravelling?

Speculations are rife regarding the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI)-led coalition government..

Tele-medicine in service of heart patients

Prof Dr Major General (retd) M M H Nuri

Technology, with the digital revolution, has invaded practically all aspects of contemporary life..

Book Review

An outstanding study of TV drama

I A Rehman

Navid Shahzad: Aslan’s Roar: Turkish Television and the rise of the Muslim Hero (Sang-e-Meel, Lahore, 2019)

Finance and Water issues and the role of the State

Abdul Khalique Junejo

The state is an apparatus that consists of various departments, institutions and organisations that work together..

Marxist strategy today – III

Gramsci’s alternative to the Third International

Rashed Rahman

One Marxist theoretician who stands out in the period between the two world wars is Antonio Gramsci, writing from his long imprisonment …

Racism in the US

The riots gripping 130 cities (at last count) in the US in the wake of the death of an Afro-American man, George Floyd, at the hands of police are the logical and dialectical outcome of the history of racism in the US..

Rumman Faruqi

In the January and February 2020 issues of Pakistan Monthly Review, Professor S M Naseem wrote an excellent article..