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A Crimson Journey with Harris Khalique

Abbas Zaidi

“History is a book which we write and in which we are written” – Blaise Pascal.

One of the dangers of writing non-fiction is that it is likely to become passé, especially when it relates to the writing of history.

Bangladesh’s future stuck in an inescapable past

Shehryar Fazli

“This was a destruction not of a house but of our history, of my history,” said a veteran of Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war.

The National Question in the Indian Union and Pakistan – I

A M Dyakov

The following analysis of the national question in India and Pakistan is part of a wider study undertaken by A M Dyakov on the political developments in the Subcontinent in the period 1939-1949, which was published by the Institute of Orientalism of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1952.

Student and Faculty Repression on US Campuses: a Report on the Palestine Exception

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Thanks to Donald Trump, the 45th and the 47th President of the Greatest Democracy on Earth (?!) – liberal white Euro-America now knows what the two-thirds world

Jaffar Express Hijacking Exposes Pakistan’s Failing Strategy in Balochistan

Mehrzaad Baluch

The hijacking of the Jaffar Express in Balochistan has once again drawn attention to the region’s long-running insurgency..

History of Invaders and Gladiators

Dr Saulat Nagi

The history of India, Marx says, is the history of invaders. A brief and chequered history of Pakistan on the other hand, can be summed up by Hans Hellumut Kirst’s novel, a German writer who..

Palestine and Israel – A Primer

Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar

The conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist (now Israeli) Jews is a modern phenomenon, originating at the end of the 19th century..

One Hundred Plus Years of the Communist Movement in India

On October 17, 2020, the Indian communist movement looked back on a century of courageous resistance against tyranny, oppression, and exploitation.

The return of the National Question – IV

Social crises and nationalism today

Chris Harman

The central contention of this article so far is that the mystery of the nation state disappears when it is seen as the typical form of political administration associated with the advance of capitalism, from its beginnings in the western fringe of Europe to its present day conquest of the whole world..

The Pakistani Revolution – IX

The Agartala Conspiracy Case and after

W B Bland

Pursuing its offensive against the leaders of the Awami League (AL), in January 1968 the government announced the discovery of a new ‘conspiracy’..