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Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal ..

Maidul Islam

If there was one fundamental contribution by communists in West Bengal, it was their uncompromising approach towards secularism..

Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri

The Russian invasion of Ukraine about four months ago has divided the world community amongst pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian alignments, with most nations remaining neutral or tentatively circumspect..

Rao Amjad Ali

US policy towards Pakistan has oscillated between suspicion and sanctions at one end, and showering money and generous praise at the other, a pendulum characteristic of a client state..

Into the muck

Noam Maggor

Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty
translated by Arthur Goldhammer
(Harvard University Press, 2020).

Prof. Neelam Hussain

At first glance, as yet another book on the women singers of Pakistan, Fawzia-Afzal Khan’s Siren Song does not excite..

Rashed Rahman

In stark contrast with the 20th century that witnessed some three dozen revolutions, some successful, others not so, the dawn of the 21st century was ushered in in a climate of scepticism about the prospects for any further revolutions..

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

The Chinese communist base area of Yan’an was a literal and metaphorical stage for envisioning, experimenting, and building a new society and a new human being..

Gemini One of the persistent phenomena of human and legal rights violations in Pakistan is that of so-called ‘missing persons’. This is a euphemism for Enforced Disappearances, whereby citizens are spirited away to unrevealed detention locations for years on end without redress. The rough estimate of how many people have been ‘disappeared’ hovers between 5,000-7,000….

Finding the Enemy Within:Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan

by Dr. Sana Ashraf