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In Malay, Orangutans means ‘People of the Forest’, but those forests are disappearing

Vijay Prashad The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for…

Widening inequality, increasing human suffering and Human Rights

Tapan Bose The notion of human rights, which is essentially a European concept, is relatively new. The idea of common people’s rights against the rulers and privileged classes emerged in 18th century Europe with the rising capitalist class challenging the absolute powers of the monarchy and privileged classes. The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal…

The Marxist Punjabi Movement: Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan

SARA KAZMI

The interface between language and politics in South Asia has had a vibrant, and often times, controversial history in the region..

Revolutions: past and present

Rashed Rahman

Capitalism’s triumphalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War in 1991 has not worked out well for the ‘victors’..

We Will March, Even If We Have to Wade through the Pakistani Floodwaters

September 8, 2022

p>Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research…

The case for land reforms

Rashed Rahman

This article will attempt to answer the question why the redistribution of land ownership (i.e. land reform) is important and even necessary for our society’s progress and development. Why there remains a crying need to concretely study the question..