Watch Lal Khan, Editor of the Asian Marxist Review, defending a Marxist position on Afghanistan on Pakistani TV in a debate with retired Lt. Gen. Talat (Defence Analyst) and Sen. Prof. Khursheed of the Jamaat-e-Islami on the “Witness with Quatrina” political talk show.

Video clips of Pakistani Marxists singing the Internationale at the end of their congress and the subsequent rally of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign.

Today, 45 years ago, on the 22^nd November 1965, Dipa Nusantara Aidit, leader of the Communist Party of Indonesia was executed in the aftermath of the coup by General Suharto. In the anti-communist purges that followed up to a total one million Indonesian communists were killed.

Fred Weston, from the editorial board of Marxist.com, spoke to a packed house at May Day Books in Minneapolis, MN, USA on June 1st. Around 30 people came to hear Fred present a Marxist analysis of the state of the Chinese economy and the future of 1/5 of humanity. We present here a video of Fred's presentation and the question and answer session, which covered topics as varied as the difference between socialism and communism to an explanation of the Asiatic mode of production.

On the evening of Monday 22 March Alan Woods was interviewed by one of the main TV channels in Pakistan. Channel 5 is one of the biggest news channels, and is owned by the Khubrain (News) Group of newspapers, which produces papers in Urdu, English, Pashto, Sindi and Punjabi. The interview was conducted by the well-known journalist Saeed Qazi, whose popular programme is watched by millions. It was broadcast on prime time with Urdu subtitles, and repeated twice the following day.

Listen to Lal Khan interviewed on the current army operation in South Waziristan, Pakistan.