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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 Memon

Emancipation and Unity: Comparing Iqbal and Fanon

Abbreviations Used TWOTE: The Wretched of The Earth (1961), by Frantz Fanon TTAR: Toward The African Revolution (1964), by Frantz Fanon Lx, RORTI: Lecture number, Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1934), by Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Iqbal and Frantz Fanon remain to this day two of the leading thinkers from former colonies. Bound by a…

ByAyyaz Mallick

Saving Syria From Destruction – An Outline Of A Regional Solution

Q - Looked at as a doctrine what are you views on 'humanitarian intervention'? Is it a sound and workable concept and can and should it apply in the case of Syria? V: The doctrine of humanitarian intervention developed among North Atlantic liberals in the 1990s as part of the elaboration of the “just war”…

ByVijay Prashad

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…

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…

ByVijay Prashad

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…

ByMagid Shihade

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…

ByVijay Prashad

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…

ByStephanie Bailey

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…