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The Elusive Self

Navid Shahzad

In Pakistan-India relations, the past continues to weigh the heaviest as both countries attempt to wipe the slate clean of their respective collective history..

The return of the National Question – III

Nationalism since the First World War

Chris Harman

There can be little doubt that Lenin was right in his argument against Rosa Luxemburg and others that the development of capitalism was leading to a proliferation of new nationalisms..

The Pakistani Revolution – VIII

The ‘Six Points’

W B Bland

In February 1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the President of the Awami League (AL), put forward a six-point programme…

Book Review

Salman Rafi Sheikh: The genesis of Baloch nationalism: Politics and ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2018)

Jamison Heinkel

Salman Rafi Sheikh’s The genesis of Baloch nationalism: Politics and ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977 delves into the complexities of the Pakistani Baloch conflict, challenging the conventional narrative that attributes it solely to obstinate tribal leaders and external conspiracies..

From the PMR Archives: September 2019

From the Editor

Capitalism’s ‘gift’: climate change

The serious catastrophe looming for the ecosystem and indeed life itself on Earth due to climate change and its effects has finally gripped the imagination of millions throughout the world, especially the youth..

A Primer on Lebanon: History, Palestine and Resistance to Israeli Violence

Lara Deeb, Maya Mikdashi, Tsolin Nalbantian, Nadya Sbaiti

Israeli attacks have killed thousands, wounded thousands more and displaced over one million people in Lebanon..

Return of the National Question – II

Classical Marxism and the National Question

Chris Harman

Marx and Engels were part of the revolutionary movement of the 1840s. They began their political life on its extreme liberal democratic wing, but came to realise very quickly that human emancipation could only be achieved by a movement that went further and looked to working class revolution..

The Pakistani Revolution – VII

The Role of the National Awami Party, the 1965 General Elections and the War with India

W B Bland

The Role of the National Awami Party

The revival of the National Awami Party (NAP) and the release from prison in November 1962 of its leader Maulana Bhashani, provided the military dictatorship with a political arm, the objective function of which was to mobilise ‘left’ support for it..

Imperialism Old and New

Hamza Alavi

“Imperialism is the eve of the socialist revolution,” wrote Lenin whilst revolutionary hearts were still warm with the apocalyptic vision of the social transformation that was about to take place following the disintegration of moribund capitalism..

Punjabis: Living down a ‘vulgar, abhorrent’ language

Dr Abbas Zaidi

Millions of Punjabis in Pakistan and the diaspora have been engaged in linguistic witch-hunting of their own language. It happened a long time before terms like “identity politics”, “linguistic identity”, “language and religion” and “bloodthirsty mullahs” were in vogue..