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Qalandar Bux Memon

is a editor of Naked Punch Review.

16 articles published

Teachers Assistants Striking Against Neo-Liberalism in Education: An Interview with Ayyaz Mallick

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you tell us what role Teaching Assistants play in the University of Toronto and York University? Ayyaz Mallick: Teaching Assistants (TAs) at both universities are the main point of contact between undergraduate students and the faculty. TAs perform a number of duties, such as running tutorials, marking papers and assignments, invigilating…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Notes on working class liberation and the Pakistani Left

In this brief note I want to argue that the organised left needs to incorporate and support the indigenous working class movement and leaders. Further that the leaders of the orgnaised left must, in large part, be drawn from the working class movements, rather than, from the bourgeois. By the working class I mean those who…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

A New Humanism

What motivates the desire for Third World solidarity is the shared history of oppression by a common oppressor.In 2009, a few academics, supported by long standing left-wing activists, founded Pakistanis for Palestine, a Lahore based group that aimed to support Palestinians in their struggle for statehood. Critics—which include Pakistanis—of course, wonder why, given Pakistan’s own…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I. Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis. The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth. The ruling elite have operated -- from the very beginning -- on cronyism, nepotism, and legal and illegal corruption. They have always been inefficient and indifferent to the…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 7, 20240Comments

Bad Sufi

The Bad Sufi A look at the practise of Contemporary Sufism in Pakistan. It is often assumed that Sufism stands opposed to Wahhabism. Wrong. Sufism and Wahhabism, in fact, share a fatal characteristic – they are religions of the status quo. In Pakistan, Sufism legitimises barbarities of inequality and starvation – ‘do nothing, it’s god’s…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 7, 20240Comments

THE LAWYERS AND THE OLD GRANITE BLOCK

First Historical Note by way of Prologue 'Those who sow should eat' [Jo kheray so khai] - this was the slogan upon which the radical and revered Sufi poet Shah Inayat set up, in the 18th century, an agrarian commune. Shah Inayat was born in Multan; in youth he affiliated himself with the Qadiriya…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 7, 20240Comments