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The role of the peasantry

Rashed Rahman

Much of contemporary literature on Third World revolutions is focused on the role of the peasantry in such upheavals. It examines the specific grievances and motivations for peasant rebellion and support for revolutionary guerrilla movements.

Vijay Prashad

It was inevitable that the Global North governments’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians would result in furious retribution from their citizenry.

I. Introduction

The Communist Party of India (CPI) inherited the progressive, anti-imperialist and revolutionary traditions of the Indian people. Since its formation in 1920 by a small group of determined anti-imperialist fighters inspired by the October Socialist Revolution in Russia, the CPI had set before itself the goal of fighting for complete independence and basic social transformation.

Preamble

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is the highest political organisation of the Indian proletariat fighting for realising its supreme class mission.

General Elections 1970

Fayyaz Baqir

The NSO was jointly established by Azizuddin and Azizul Haq. The differences between them cropped up with reference to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Apathy or Sympathy Fatigue?

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The possible and probable reason for the apathy towards and sympathy fatigue for the people’s resistance is illustrated by this experience of mine.

Vijay Prashad

Fifty years ago, on April 25, 1974, the people of Portugal took to the streets of their cities and towns in enormous numbers to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novo (‘New State’), formally established in 1926.

Robert P Hager

Introduction

Much of the Cold War took place in the Third World. The three works authored by Gregg A Brazinsky: Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War; Jeffry James Byrne: Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order, and Jeremy Friedman: Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, are reviewed here and they provide historical details.

Berch Berberoglu

Introduction

The resurgence of nationalism and ethnonationalist conflict in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its associated Eastern European states in their transition from a form of socialism to a market-oriented direction led by bourgeois forces allied with world capitalism during the decade of the 1990s has prompted a new round of discussion and debate on the origins and development of nationalism and the nation-state that has implications for contemporary nationalism and nationalist movements in the world today.

Saulat Nagi

“If you have tears,” Shakespeare says, “prepare to shed them now.” The electoral farce is over, but its spectre continues to haunt the Pakistani Praetorian Guard driven by an unquenchable desire to keep an iron-fisted control over Pakistan’s polity.