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Foreign hand and Balochistan

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

It has always been alleged by the Pakistani authorities that the Baloch struggle is funded by foreign powers, that foreign hands are involved, India in particular and Afghanistan in passing.

Creeping coup in Venezuela

Rashed Rahman

In a by now familiar rerun of the kind of creeping coups used by the US-led west in recent years to wring regime change in countries where the government does not kow tow to Washington’s hegemony, the left wing government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is undergoing a state of siege by the US, some countries in Europe, and some right wing governments in Latin America, through this unholy alliance’s local agents backed by the Venezuelan elite.

Vijay Prashad

On July 26, 2024, senior UN officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza.

W B Bland

Introduction

Marxism-Leninism is the scientific outlook of the working class, the science of socialism and of its construction by the working people, the science of socialist revolution.

Rashed Rahman

The Pakistani state seems incapable of learning anything from the past. That means it is trapped in what Einstein described as “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Fayyaz Baqir

During the third students union election campaign, we split with the Professor’s Group (PG). Before the split the PG had asked me to continue my stay in Lahore.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The response to violence here by people in general is selective too. The Ziarat Residency burning and the blast at Sardar Bahadur Khan University (SBKU) happened on June 15, 2013. At the SBKU, 14 students died when a bomb exploded in the bus they were about to return home in.

From the Editor

Full Circle

Pakistan is no stranger to military domination. The country has seen four military coups since independence in 1958, 1969, 1977 and 1999.

The vulnerability of authoritarian regimes

Rashed Rahman

 While Third World revolutionaries attempt to set up liberated areas or ‘guerrilla governments’ in the countryside, the other side of the coin, i.e. incumbent governments or regimes, must be examined as to their modes of retaining power and their vulnerability and susceptibility to overthrow by revolutionary guerrilla insurgencies./p>

Arun Kundnani

(In 1969, at the Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG) convention, Eqbal Ahmad delivered a stark message: the Palestinian liberation movement would fail if it relied solely on armed struggle. He argued for a broader strategy, combining military with political and ideological tactics. The aim was to bring about the moral isolation of Israel by exposing the violence and racism that Zionism, as a form of settler colonialism, had to rely upon. Today, that goal might finally be within reach).