We publish a new introduction by Peter Taaffe to Leon Trotsky’s ‘Permanent Revolution’, which the Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) are to translate into Urdu and publish.

Within a few months of the new government taking power in Pakistan the country has been plunged into a new crisis. Economically bankrupt and compelled to go to the IMF for a loan, hourly power cuts, rising inflation, mass unemployment ...

The US imperialist intervention in Afghanistan has spilled over into Pakistan, which has now become a victim of this bloody war. The victims in Pakistan are, once again, mainly the Pashtoon peoples, on both sides of the Durand line – ...

Pakistan, even before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, was gripped by a severe political and social crisis. There are country-wide protests against the price hikes and power shortages. There seems to be no end to the suicide bombings and terror ...