Is Red Plenty possible?
The planned economy and the struggle for socialism Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford, mixes fact and fiction to describe post-second world war Russia. The author sets out to expose Stalinist mismanagement and authoritarian rule – and, by extension, any…
Kashmir in flames again: Complete shutdown for more than a month
Kashmir is aflame again amid a renewed outpouring of popular, non-violent, revolt against India’s military occupation. Kashmiris are out in streets, bringing the Valley to a complete shutdown for more than a month. Despite a curfew and military…
Release the arrested trade union leaders
Stop terrorising the workers movement Azam Janjua, organiser TURCP Islamabad and vice president PWFP The four leaders of a cement factory in Lucky Marwat have been arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act on 19th September in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province.…
Kashmir: An eyewitness to oppression in the valley
“A PARADISE turned into hell”. That’s how the people who live there describe Indian occupied Kashmir. Monday 13 September saw 18 people, mainly young men, mown down by some of the 700,000 soldiers in the Indian army who occupy Kashmir.…
“Paradise turned into hell”
Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution The leader of the Kashmiri nationalist Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, agreed at the last minute to speak to five members of the delegation. But the real feelings and the demands of the…