This isn’t the first time that the military establishment has been on the receiving end of a public backlash. Will the outcome be different this time? Aasim Sajjad Akhtar There are thousands of charged protesters on the streets of Islamabad, many inside the otherwise impermeable Red Zone. They face baton charges, tear gas shelling, and arrests. Fierce slogans against the …

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.

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.

By Nadia Urbinati The Communist Manifesto, first published on this day in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harboured within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. So it makes no sense to establish a dualism between the present and the …

The book, titled The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons is an interpretation of the contemporary global economic and political scenario and opportunities for revolutionary politics as an alternative.

By Saquib Salim “I was not a party to the order of the removal of the accused (Bhagat Singh & his associates) from the court to the jail and I was not responsible for it anyway. I disassociate myself from all that took place today in consequence of that order.” Justice Sayyad Agha Haider, May, 12th,1930. The above order passed …

By Waseem Altaf March 23 marks the 91st death anniversary of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, who were executed in Lahore Central Jail on this day in 1931. Looking at our history books, we find numerous characters, glorified as national heroes, however, when closely examined we discover that they were nothing but opportunists and collaborators. We also find that since …

Hassan Nasir was the son of the nobility from India's Hyderabad Deccan. But he fought on the side of the peasantry in the historic Telangana revolt.

There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance.

Covid-19 has shown how much we miss a powerful workers movement.

by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar When Mashal Khan was brutally lynched four years ago, the Tehrik-e-Labbaik-Pakistan (TLP) was still a relatively new and unknown force. As we remember Mashal today, the TLP has dramatically become Pakistan’s most powerful Islamist group, with unmatched mobilizational capacity. TLP activists block roads in various cities of Punjab, Sindh and KP to protest the detention of …

By Amir Roshan A massive protest joined by mourners on the occasion of Chehlum of the martyrs of Karbala at Aliabad Hunza on October 8. Photo by Ali Ahmed As sit-in and protest rallies for the release of Awami Workers Party (AWP) leaders Baba Jan, Aleemullah Balkhan, Iftikhar Karbalai, and 11 other imprisoned youth continue, more people pour into Aliabad …

News Desk AWP deputy secretary Ismat Shahjehan, Usman Gujjar, Sher Rehman, and Sayed Alam offer condolences to Shahab Khattak on the tragic death of his elder brother Prof Naeemuddin Khattak. Photo by HAH MNA Ali Wazeer and PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen offer condolences to Shahab Khattak A delegation of the Awami Workers Party Party led by Deputy secretary Ismat Shahjahan, …

The team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border A team of Chinese surveyors have scaled Mount Everest, becoming the only climbers to summit the world’s highest peak during the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese media report the team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border. …

AWP observes two-day mourning. CPIM, PWA, PMA and others pay homage to the oldest beacon of Left Movement by Herald Special Correspondent TOBA TEK SINGH/Islamabad: Veteran socialist leader and founding member of the Awami Workers Party Chaudhry Fateh Mohammed, the oldest beacon of Left and peasant movement goes out. Draped in the party’s red and white flag, he was laid to …