Venal ruling class
By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed
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Politics
Afghan women’s woes
In addition to needing a male chaperone to go places within the war-torn country, women are now required to bring a male family member with them if they hope to study abroad.
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Race, culture, terrorism and ‘deep structures’
Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.
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Fake is the new real
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Over the past three months, a handful of highly influential news celebrities have left no stone
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AWP vows to emerge as a genuine alternative force
By News Desk The Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) is committed to becoming a genuine alternative force by uniting all Left-wing,
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HKP: New Left party to strive for labourers’ rights
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party presents a charter of demand including Rs40,000 minimum wage for labourers; it will field labourers as its candidates in the local government and general elections.
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Pakistan’s neoliberal state is a machine for plunder
Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.
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Call for an end to GB’s constitutional deprivation
The mission is especially alarmed by the apparent surge in suicide cases in various parts of GB, particularly in district Ghizer. A large number of these victims comprise women and the mission has reason to believe that some cases of honour killings have been labelled suicide and thus ‘forgotten
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Venal ruling class
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed baton
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Book launch: Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
It was only a politics of new horizons that matched the ambitions of revolutionaries of the twentieth century, coupled with a spiritual and intellectual reformation to create a man or woman who would fight for this new inclusive order, that this was necessary to address our dual economic and ecological crises.
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Redistribute now
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It has been a month since the so-called unity government came to power. It still seems
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The pied piper syndrome
We are faced with an intolerant generation that is self-righteous, hates dissent and wants everyone to think one way – which is their way. In short, we are reaping the fruits of the seeds we had sown ourselves in our classrooms and society at large. Today it is the misogynist, fascist Imran Khan, tomorrow it can be a right-wing extremist force which will use the same herd to its own advantage and ruin the already religiously intolerant and anti-women society.
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Globalization isn’t the problem — capitalism is
The Right has hijacked the vision of a life beyond neoliberal globalization. It’s time for a new progressive internationalism, one that puts solidarity and justice over corporate profits.
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Undermining the people’s will
The book covers one manifestation of authoritarianism as defined by the author and follows a set structure. There is a historical overview — in some instances beginning from the colonial era — consisting of key events which illustrate the issue.
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Vulgar vengeance in Pakistani politics
Secret video recordings and their use against opponents By Hasan Mujtaba Probably reaching its height in the tug of war
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