Volume 6, No. 3, March 2024
Editor: Rashed Rahman
S M Naseem
This article focuses on how the Pakistani Army launched a full-scale crackdown against the intelligentsia, particularly the teachers of Dacca University.
Jamal Hussain
US Joint Publication 1 (JP1) defines military strategy as using military resources such as people, equipment and information against opponent’s resources to gain supremacy or reduce the opponent’s will to fight.
Introduction
This book is an exposition of Marx’s vision, generally referred to as the materialist conception of history, historical materialism, dialectical materialism and also his worldview.
Imtiaz Alam
The May 9, 2023 violent attacks against the armed forces installations in Pakistan, mainly in the dominant province of Punjab (the backbone of the Army) by the angry youthful followers of deposed prime minister (PM) Imran Khan in a frenzied reaction to his humiliating arrest are unprecedented in the history of a ‘garrison state’.
Fredric Grare
(The following report, although not current, is being published to throw light on the crisis in Balochistan – Ed.)
S M Naseem
More than five decades have passed since the South Asian subcontinent suffered its second geopolitical upheaval as it gave birth to another independent nation-state, Bangladesh, close on the heels of the partition of colonial India and the birth of the twin states of India and Pakistan only a quarter-century earlier…
Prabhat Patnaik
A century ago, Vladimir Lenin was in Zurich completing a manuscript that would go on to become perhaps the most consequential book of the twentieth century. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism may not be the most widely read of Lenin’s works, but it is certainly the most important.
Achin Vanaik
It is only in the last quarter of the 20th century that Marxist intellectuals began to address the issue of nationalism with the seriousness it deserved…
Asad Pervaz
In third world countries like Pakistan, the ruling elite’s obsession with centralisation has negated the creation of national integration in a manner that fulfils the requirements of a constitutional arrangement with clear boundaries of the division of power…