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I A Rehman

Navid Shahzad: Aslan’s Roar: Turkish Television and the rise of the Muslim Hero (Sang-e-Meel, Lahore, 2019)

Abdul Khalique Junejo

The state is an apparatus that consists of various departments, institutions and organisations that work together..

Gramsci’s alternative to the Third International

Rashed Rahman

One Marxist theoretician who stands out in the period between the two world wars is Antonio Gramsci, writing from his long imprisonment …

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..