Archives

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.

From Marx to Mao – And After – VII

The Dialectics of History

Name/healine

Ray Nunes

Lenin’s Experiences in Fighting to Save the Revolution

Was there, then, a different route to the Cultural Revolution (CR) that could have been taken? It was certainly a great risk to place the Party and its leading role in danger of being defeated in a new struggle for power.

انقلابی تبدیلی کیلئے دورِ حاضرمیں جدوجہد

راشد رحمان

سال 2017 اکتوبر 1917 کے روسی کمیونسٹ انقلاب کی صد سالہ سالگرہ کا سال تھا۔ ان سو برسوں کو انسانی تاریخ کا سب سے پُرتشدد دور کہا جا سکتا ہے۔ اس حقیقت کی وضاحت اس وقت تک مکمل نہیں ہو سکتی جب تک ان سو برسوں میں انقلاب اور ردِانقلاب کے مرکزی کردار کو تسلیم نہ کیا جائے

۔

From the PMR Archives: March 2020

Book Review

The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy

Khan, Ayesha: (398 pp., I. B. Taurus, 2018).

Dr Maria Rashid

Titled The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy, Ayesha Khan’s book is a comprehensive and nuanced account of the history of the Women’s Action Forum (WAF).

Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production – IV

The impact of Colonialism

Rashed Rahman

Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic Mode of Production.

How many International Laws can the US break against Venezuela and still get away with it?

Vijay Prashad

The US assault on Venezuela did not begin on January 3, 2026 – but the bombing of the country and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores once again lay bare Washington’s contempt for sovereignty and international law.

Obituary

Mama Qadeer

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

“Your job was to take him away. Your job was to kill him.You have done your job. I can do the rest myself.” These words were spoken by Abdul Qadeer Baloch, Mama Qadeer, after a Deputy Commissioner offered to help him recover his son Mir Jalil Reki’s body.

Bhutto, Yahya and Tikka Khan

One Civilian, Two Army Men

Jagdeesh Ahuja

After the 1965 Pakistan-India war, Pakistan’s then Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto revolted against his ‘Daddy’, Field Marshal Ayub Khan, and raised the banner of Pakistani chauvinism by shouting the fanatical slogan of “fighting India for a thousand years even if we have to eat grass.”