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Fayyaz Baqir

Starting in 1979 many progressive political activists, journalists, poets, artists and intellectuals moved to Western Europe and North America due to the repression of Ziaul Haq’s regime..

Imtiaz Alam

I wanted to respond to Fayyaz Baqir’s sham story of ‘armed propaganda’ in his previous instalment in this journal (Pakistan Monthly Review, November 2024, Fayyaz Baqir..

Jammu & Kashmir: The Pakistan Factor

Saleem Akhtar Malik

The recently held elections to the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly indicate that India has failed in its strategic objectives on J&K..

Human Development Index and Balochistan

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The figures on Human Development Index (HDI) regarding Balochistan are not forthcoming and even searches do not provide up to date figures..

Samia Dogar

A recent news of a young boy losing his life during a protest is deeply saddening. This tragic incident underscores a concerning trend: the rise of violent protests involving young people..

From the Editor

Crisis of Pakistan’s state and society

That Pakistan has been in the throes of a crisis of state and society has become a commonplace over the years..

Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism

Berch Berberoglu

In this section of the paper I attempt to develop an alternative Marxist theory of nationalism based on the principles of historical materialism.

Pakistan as a semi-colony of US Imperialism

W B Bland

Second phase: Military Dictatorship, continued dependence upon US Imperialism

The establishment in October 1958 of the military dictatorship of the ‘Karachi’ clique brought about an increase in US ‘aid’, but no change in the basis of Pakistan’s foreign policy: “The Martial Law Regime…had no quarrel with the basic assumptions of the foreign policy followed by the previous governments” (Mushtaq Ahmad: Government and Politics in Pakistan; Karachi,1963, p.231).

Biden’s Cuba policy leaves the Island in wreckage

Ed Augustin

The sight of hungry people scavenging through dumpsters and panhandling was once more common in cities in the US and Europe than in Havana. But a series of quiet moves, first by Trump, and now by Biden, have produced a humanitarian crisis throughout Cuba.

The Fourth International

Fayyaz Baqir

International Spartacist Tendency (IST)

We started studying and meeting regularly in the first quarter of 1979 in Salish Sea’s (SS’s) apartment, located across the road from the Gulberg Police Station. Femme Rouge (FR) said that she reported to the Sri Lankan cell of a splinter group of the Fourth International, the International Spartacist Tendency (IST) in the South Asian region and received guidance on party matters from them.