There is a popular joke about the promise of celestial virgins (hoors) for pious Muslim men who make it to heaven—it quips how this is not really a reward for the eager men but more a punishment for the hoors.
Author Archives: Pakistan Left Review
Capitalism, Crises and Human Life
The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest crisis that has had a major impact on human life. Two other crises are also upon us: the crisis of growing inequality and the environmental crisis.
Labour Relief Campaign
The Labour Relief Campaign, initiated by Pakistan’s Left and Progressive movements, has entered its second month. The effort was initiated with the objective to provide monthly rations to working class families affected by the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
A Call for Revolutionary Internationalism
For all of the outrage that many rightly feel, it is not surprising that the Pakistan state’s inherently authoritarian streak has come to the fore in the midst of the pandemic. COVID-19 …
Roots of Food Crisis in Pakistan
Four weeks into the COVID lockdown, millions of Pakistanis have been pushed into hunger. The first cases of COVID-19 began to be diagnosed in Pakistan in the midst of a two-year assault on the country’s …
Radical demands of the 1960s and lessons for our present
The most remarkable thing about the late 1960s movement in Pakistan were its radical demands, argues Anushey Malik.
It is Right to Rebel
At a time in history when human expectations of the future are beginning to resemble sci-fi reality, COVID-19 has abruptly disrupted these fantasies. The manner in which the mightiest empire appears helpless in front of a virus makes …
A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Our Times
Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser, in “Feminism for the 99% – A Manifesto”, deliver scathing criticism of mainstream feminism, which they term as “equal opportunity feminism”.
Confronting Viral Uncertainty
Now what? Now that we have read the books and essays we so badly wanted to and fixed almost everything broken that had been screaming for our attention for months, if not years.
A Left Strategy Against Coronavirus in Pakistan
First, we should be very clear that what we are looking at is not a “recession”. It is not a “financial crisis”. This coronavirus pandemic is a profound dislocation of the essential components of …
