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Please Smash Fascism: An Open Letter
An Open Letter It’s about time I wrote this. Too many people have died because we sat around doing nothing. A lot has been said about generations – ‘Our Generation’ or every other generation – and each generation’s responsibility to stand up and change the world in a way that would seem more conducive to…
POLITICS
Going from Pillar to truce
After bombing Gaza, Israel is more isolated, Hamas has emerged stronger and Egypt, which helped broker a ceasefire between the two, has returned as a major regional actor On the eighth day of the bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli government agreed to sit down with the Hamas leadership and the Egyptian government to come up with…
POLITICS
We Are Fine in Gaza. How Are You?
In celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party in Syria and Lebanon, the Palestinian singer and writer—Khaled El-Hibr sang these words:We are fine in GazaHow about you?We are fine under attackHow about you?Our martyrs are under the rubblesOur children now living in the tentsAnd they ask about youWe are fine in GazaHow about you?….The sea…
POLITICS
The New Obama Doctrine: From Gaza to Goma
The Israeli assault on Gaza continues. The death toll rises over 100, infrastructure is destroyed, and the UN relief agencies are at wit’s end. A desperate tone has entered the dispatches from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has operated in occupied Palestine since 1950. On November 19, the agency noted: “Israeli Air Force…
Poetry Uncategorized
Love in Capitalism
Love in CapitalismYou’re all in –but you have nothing to give. You like it that way, though,Maybe. And it works for a while:On credit. When the markets are crashing,It's hard to keep your back straight.And 50:50 becomes too risky a bet. Investment needs consideration. Everything must be accounted for.It needs time and work. But you want it alland you're running out…
Philosophy POLITICS
Frantz Fanon: The Philosophical Revolutionary
THE current year, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Frantz Fanon, one of the indispensable figures of the 20th century and a man of exemplary commitments to revolutionary action and human liberation. A thinker who offered original and lasting insights of great complexity, he was also a physician and a psychiatrist who…
INTERVIEWS POLITICS
Politics of the Oppressed in Pakistan
The formation of the Anjuman-e-Mazareen-e-Punjab (Association of Punjab’s Tenants) in Pakistan signaled the re-carving of political space by Punjab’s peasants.  This interview with Asad Farooq, Professor in the Law Department at LUMS, charts the development of Anjuman-e-Mazareen-e-Punjab from its formation to its recent struggles.  Asad Farooq is interviewed by Qalandar Memon. QM: Professor Farooq, you have…
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A flawed project
yun bhai Nihala, Azaadi tu hai dekhi. Na bhai Prava, ne kha de ne vekhi. Main Jaggu ti sunni assi Ambala ti aaye si. Listen Brother Nihal, have you seen Freedom? No Brother Prava, I haven’t seen it nor eaten it. I heard from Jaggu It has come up to Ambala. —Gurramdas ‘Alam’, A zaadi, 1946.…