Archive for the 'Communist Movement' Category
July 14, 2008
The recent military operations by Frontier Corps (FC) on the religious extremist groups around Peshawar led to a series of debates and discussion amongst the CMKP members regarding the position to be adopted on the question of Taliban and religious-extremists. The conclusion of the debate has been summarised by Ali Jan that is being presented [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, International Affairs, Pakistan
Tags: Democracy, Imperialism, religious extremism, Taliban, war on terror
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June 23, 2008
The following news item caught my attention lately due to the reference to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg:
The Cuban and the US flags fluttered together on June 19 by a monument dedicated to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were unjustly executed 55 years ago by fascist forces in the United States.
The vice-president of the Cuban Friendship [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Poetry, Literature, Art
Tags: Cuba, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, McCarthyism, Rosenberg
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May 20, 2008
- Florentino A. Iniego, JR
Another way of understanding the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’s victory is to study its revolutionary literature. As a researcher from the Philippines, I have been struggling to learn the Nepali language to grasp the poems and songs of the Maoist movement. For months of exposure, interaction, and reading translations of works [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Marxism, Poetry, Literature, Art
Tags: armed struggle, Maoists, Nepal, people's war
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May 13, 2008
It has now become blatantly clear that Zardari has completely failed the democratic movement. In exchange for the NRO, Zardari has agreed not to restore the pre-November 3nd judiciary and has de facto accepted General Pervaiz Musharraf as the President of Pakistan. This is a complete betrayal of the struggle against military rule that so [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Pakistan
Tags: Aitzaz Ahsan, CMKP, Democracy, Elections, Lawyers
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April 28, 2008
“Main Nay Kaha” is a satirical poem by the famous leftist poet Habib Jalib called “Musheer” (Advisor). Jalib wrote it in response to a conversation he had with Hafiz Jalandari during the time of Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. It remains just as fresh and valid today.
This poem has been put to music by Laal (Shahram Azhar [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Pakistan, Poetry, Literature, Art
Tags: Benazir Bhutto, CMKP, Democracy, Dictatorship, Elections, Emergency, Habib Jalib, Karachi, Lahore, Military
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March 24, 2008
Disturbed to life by the atrocious massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, disillusioned by the national political leaders who recoiled the promising Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922, alarmed by the rising religious divisions and reactionary rhetoric in the mainstream politics, and motivated by the Bolshevik Revolution of workers and peasants of Russia of 1917, Bhagat Singh [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Marxism
Tags: Bhagat Singh, Capitalism, Democracy, Imperialism, Lahore, Students, Workers
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March 14, 2008
The 12th of May marks the death anniversary of the People’s Poet Habib Jalib. Habib Jalib was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan, and remained a Marxist-Leninist till the end of his life. His poetry is popular all across Pakistan, and is appreciated by workers and peasants alike. We, the members of CMKP, [...]
Categories: Communist Movement, Pakistan, Poetry, Literature, Art
Tags: Dictatorship, Habib Jalib
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March 9, 2008
A large number of Soviet books in English are now available online. Most
of the books are from Stalin period and some from Krushcev and Brezhnev
period for all of us to read and learn the changes.
There some books on Peoples Democracy, constitutions of some of the
Eastern European countries as well as Soviet attitude on Greek Question.
You [...]
Categories: Books & Authors, Communist Movement, Marxism
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