Maoists election victory in Nepal
Need for socialist programme to break with landlordism and capitalism The Maoists won a spectacular victory in the Nepalese elections.…
Category: South Asia
A country on the edge
State and society in crisis Pakistan, even before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, was gripped by a severe political and…
25,000 textile workers protest against poor wages
Textile workers are on the move again. More than 25,000 textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled Bangladesh…
Violence erupts in Karachi as political polarisation increases
Fifty killed and more than 150 injured Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city saw its worst political violence in decades on 12…
Maoist ministers sworn in
New government, but is it a “new Nepal”? In a twist of history, the Minister of Information and Communication in…