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Negotiating with a wolf

Aisha Gaddafi

“Negotiating with a wolf will not save the sheep or bring lasting peace. It only sets the day for the next meal.”

Afghanistan: five Years of Darkness and Women’s Resistance

(Excerpts from the message sent to the Paris, March 6, 2026, Working Women’s meeting by the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women (SMAW) March 8, 2026, Afghanistan).

Nearly five years have passed since the return of the Taliban’s dark rule over Afghanistan.

Red Books Day

Towards Building a Left Culture

Fatima Shahzad

February 21, 2026 marks the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.

Pakistan’s economy

Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor

Fayyaz Baqir

Pakistan like the rest of the world is passing through a rupture moment.

From Marx to Mao – and After – VIII

Continued Revolution

Ray Nunes

We must mention, in our opinion, two further related mistakes. The first of these was in judging the length of time the Cultural Revolution (CR) would occupy.

From the PMR Archives: March 2020

Book Review

Death of imagination

Rashed Rahman

Husain Haqqani: Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State (Harper Collins, India, 2018).

Husain Haqqani is no stranger to Pakistani (or global) audiences.

2019 پی ایم آر آرکائیوز سے: فروری

From the Editor

پورا دائرہ

پاکستان فوجی غلبے سے ناواقف نہیں ہے۔ ملک نے آزادی کے بعد چار فوجی بغاوتیں دیکھی ہیں

Contextualising the Democracy Deficit in Pakistan: Colonial Legacy, Constitution, Justice and Rule of Law S Zulfiqar Gilani Introduction Officially Pakistan is a democracy, which is its visible face internationally and in public political discourse. However, it has been categorised as an authoritarian regime in the 2024 Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index report. This disjuncture,…

Chomsky, Epstein, Parenti and the US

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

As a life-long admirer of Noam Chomsky, I have been deeply saddened by the revelations of the Epstein files that show him to have been a close friend and confidante of Epstein even after his conviction as a paedophile blackmailer and Mossad agent.

Migration is an Underdevelopment issue

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad

The global number of migrants has nearly doubled in the past thirty-five years, underscoring rising inequality and the imposed underdevelopment of the Global South.