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Marx’s analysis of capitalism – II

Rashed Rahman

If Marx’s Capital Volume I took years to complete, Volumes II and III remained incomplete and were published by Frederick Engels after Marx passed away.

Why the Global South Needs an Industrial Policy

Vijay Prashad

While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.

The Debates We Never Wrote Down: A History of the Pakistani Left

Ramis Sohail

There is, to date, no comprehensive history of the Pakistani left – not in English, not in Urdu, not in Punjabi.

The Genius of Bacha Khan

Qalandar Bux Memon

Most geniuses have one masterwork for which they are famous. For Che and Fidel, that work was surely the Cuban Revolution and its international humanism, just as it was the Russian Revolution for Lenin.<.p>

The Necropolitics in Balochistan: Memoirs, Emotions, Identity – III

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

There are mass graves like in Tutak and the graveyards of the anonymous in Dasht that Mahrang Baloch visited at the start of the year 2025.

How an editorial decision about Faiz Ahmad Faiz turned my life upside down

Abbas Zaidi

By the end of 1984, General Zia’s Islamisation, supported by martial law, was complete.

The Flight of the Anka

Navid Shahzad

Faiz’s land. Stretching from Azad Kashmir in the north, undulating gently towards Sindh in the south, bordered by a sun-ripened Indian Punjab on the east and closed in by a rugged west.

Tradition and Metaphysics in Faiz

Aziz Butt

It is worth reviewing some of the statements critics make about the disjunctiveness of the poetic tradition identified in Faiz’s approach to literature and life.

Balochistan’s Imbroglio: A Marxist Gramscian Perspective – III

Saulat Nagi

Aijaz Ahmad observes that Marris and Bugtis often claim Quraysh lineage, while Mengals may be of Mongol origin. Such diverse roots contribute to intra-tribal tensions.

Jahanzeb Tipu: Obituarising a Man Who Refuses to Die

Abbas Zaidi

In some cases, life and death do not exist in binary opposition because death may be a form of life and vice versa.