A Response to Aisha Tahir and Khurram Ali’s “The Pakistani Left’s Middle Class Crisis”
In a recent article titled “The Pakistani Left’s Middle Class Crisis,” published in Jamhoor, the authors, Aisha Tahir and Khurram Ali, attempt to analyze the Pakistani Left by examining different left factions and groups. The authors suggest that Pakistan’s Left…
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Tribute to Syed Ali Shah Geelani
On the fifth anniversary of his passing, Fatah pays tribute to Syed Ali Shah Geelani, widely known as Bab, the supreme leader of Kashmir’s freedom struggle. For decades, Geelani stood at the forefront of the movement for Kashmiri self-determination, becoming a symbol…
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Statement Condemning Al Qaeda in Syria’s Diplomatic Visit to Pakistan
Fatah strongly condemns and is deeply alarmed by the imposed Syrian Foreign Minister’s visit to Pakistan. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is a terrorist turned government official who was involved in the formation of al-Nusra Front in Syria. His rehabilitation amounts to little more than Noor Wali Mehsud putting…
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Can the Pakistani Left Think Nationally? State Formation, National Integration, & Development
Several Pakistani leftist writers, most notably Hamza Alavi, advanced the concept of the “overdeveloped state,” identifying the military and bureaucracy as the defining institutions of Pakistan’s political order and tracing their predominance to the colonial state. Alavi’s concept was an important…
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On the Tenth Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Burhan Wani
Fatah pays tribute to Burhan Muzaffar Wani, commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and martyr of the Kashmiri resistance, on the tenth anniversary of his martyrdom at the hands of Indian Occupation Forces on July 8th, 2016. Born in 1994 in the…
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Why the Pakistani Left Should Study Ba’athism
Although Ba’athism belongs to a different ideological tradition from Marxism-Leninism, it deserves far more attention from the Pakistani left than it currently receives. Lenin himself did not confine his study to Marxist movements. He drew lessons from the Paris Commune,…
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America Is Failing in Iran
On the 21st of March, US President Donald Trump made a post on his favoured social media platform, Truth Social, in which he claimed that the US had nearly achieved their objectives in the American-Israeli imperial war on Iran. This…
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In Memoriam: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (1939–2026)
Fatah mourns the martyrdom of His Eminence, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who was cut down by the missiles of empire on February 28th, 2026. We use the word martyr with full deliberation and…
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Statement on Kashmir Solidarity Day
Fatah stands in resolute solidarity with the just and internationally recognized struggle for self-determination of the people of Kashmir. The Indian state’s repression in Indian-Occupied Kashmir (IOK)—from house raids enforcing VPN bans, to mosque surveillance (on top of the existing…
Keep readingStatement on the US Regime’s Violence in Minneapolis
Fatah strongly condemns the recent fatal shootings by the American regime in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which resulted in the deaths of unarmed U.S. citizens during an aggressive “immigration enforcement” operation. These events—marked by contradictory official narratives and widespread public outrage—underscore a pattern of routine…
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