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 [...]
- 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 [...]
“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 [...]
Amrita Pretam
I call on Warith Shah today:
O speak up from your grave
And from the Book of Love unfurl
A new and different page.
When one daughter of the Punjab did weep,
You wrote countless verses.
Today, millions of daughters are in tears
With this message for you:
‘Arise, you healer of inner pain,
And look now at your Punjab;
The forests are [...]
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, [...]
While I collect some thoughts to write an original post, here is some interesting information that one of my friends wrote about:
I recently came across an interesting historical fact, which speaks volumes about the impact of a revolutionary upsurge in society on all aspects of life, including art and culture.
All of us have played cards [...]
Celebrating the Palestinian poetry of Resistance
Thrombosis in the veins of Petroleum
Taha Muhammad Ali
When I was a child
I fell into the abyss
but didn’t die;
I drowned in the pond
when I was young,
but did not die;
and now, God help us—
one of my habits is running
into battalions of land mines
along the border,
as my songs
and the days of my youth
are [...]
At the birthday of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (February 13th), I am presenting the translation of one of his most famous and my favorite poem. I am not sure who has translated it; it was found here on the internet. Due to the political turmoil through which our country is going through, Faiz Ahmed Faiz has [...]
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