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The parliamentary façade

W B Bland

The coup of April 1953 represented a victory of the ‘Karachi’ landlord/comprador bourgeois clique and a defeat of the Bengal landlord/comprador bourgeois clique.

Peasant Warriors

Fayyaz Baqir

In 1975 during one of my visits to Lahore from Dera Ismail Khan (DIK), I was approached by Imtiaz Alam and Professor Zafar Ali Khan to join the Mazdoor Kissan Party (Worker Peasant Party).

Gwadar

Mohammad Ali Talpur

Gwadar has a number of advantages as a port; it is an all-year, all-weather deep channel port that could eventually handle the largest of oil tankers.

Global capitalist imperialism today

Rashed Rahman

Global capitalist imperialism has transformed its production structures/systems in such radical ways today that much of the earlier analyses relying on an examination of the aggregation of separate national economies and the trade and capital flows between them no longer serves to adequately explain 21st century reality.

Vijay Prashad

I have been in Caracas, Venezuela, for the past two weeks, before and after the presidential election on July 28, 2024.

State Secrets and Crimes

On August 7, 2024, in the latest episode of unrest over sexual violence in Israel’s prisons, a video of nine soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee was broadcast on Israel’s Channel 12.

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

One of the surprising things about the developments in Bangladesh has been the extent to which the criminal governance of the Sheikh Hasina regime mimicked governance in Pakistan.

Kinza Fatima

The contemporary wave of struggle in Balochistan is led by women, following the Baloch Long March in 2023.

The Class Structure of Pakistan

W B Bland

There were significant differences in the class structure of West and East Pakistan. In West Pakistan (according to the Census of Agriculture, 1963-4), 63,300 landlords (representing 1.25 percent of landholders) owned more than 100 acres of land, owning between them 15.2 million acres (31.2 percent of the privately owned land).

Fayyaz Baqir

In September 1974 I said goodbye to the Institute of South Asian Studies to join Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan (DIK).