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Racism in the US

The riots gripping 130 cities (at last count) in the US in the wake of the death of an Afro-American man, George Floyd, at the hands of police are the logical and dialectical outcome of the history of racism in the US..

Rumman Faruqi

In the January and February 2020 issues of Pakistan Monthly Review, Professor S M Naseem wrote an excellent article..

Prof. Dr. Emeritus S. Haroon Ahmed

In the time of the coronavirus pandemic, we are all obsessed by the statistics of the number infected, cured or dead and advice to stay home, wash hands, use a hand sanitiser, wear a face mask ..

Rashed Rahman

Lenin and the Bolsheviks’ critique of the Marxism of the Second International led to the split in the International in 1914 ..

Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

Following increasing COVID-19-related deaths in Italy since mid-February 2020, the Republic of Cuba decided to send a medical team to set up a hospital in northern Italy, the epicentre of the pandemic. This is yet another example of many Cuban medical contingents that are..

Paul Le Blanc

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) was born into a large and loving family, which enjoyed some social standing, was highly cultured, and was inclined to believe in the rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all people..

Rashed Rahman

The socialist revolutionary strategy and tactics to be followed by Marxists in today’s world have gone abegging due to a variety of factors. First and foremost amongst these was the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Eastern European socialism around the same time..

Origins and challenges of the pandemic and a post-coronavirus world

The current COVID-19 illness gripping the world is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus to emerge since 2002 (the first was the SARS epidemic). As a result of its rapid spread..

Prof Tariq Rahman

Zakaria, Anam., 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. 393pp., Penguin Random House 2019

Anam Zakaria is the author of two books: Footprints of Partition (2011) and Between the Great Divide (2018). Both are oral histories based for the most part on oral narratives. This is her third book in this genre and by far the most difficult to write for reasons which will emerge in this review..

Lucien Gauthier

The headline of the business daily Les Echos expresses alarm at the fall of the stock markets and the general crisis of the production system. It is not the Coronavirus that is provoking the economic crisis, but it is a revealing and accelerating factor..