Filmbàr screening of Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe (1989) at Research and Publication Centre (RPC) on Friday, August 07, 2026, at 5pm.

Filmbàr screening of Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe (1989) at Research and Publication Centre (RPC) on Friday, August 07, 2026, at 5pm.

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the colonizer's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah. The newcomer is considered a suitable candidate, and for some time he lives as a god.

The screening will be followed by a discussion over tea. Lift is operational.

Address: Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd Floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom)

Rashed Rahman

Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)

Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)

The August 2026 issue of Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) is out

The August 2026 issue of Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) is out. Link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com

Contents:

1. Rashed Rahman: The Industrial Revolution – I.

2. Chris Gilbert: Global South Struggles for Socialism and the Workers' Side of Marxism.

3. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar: Pakistan's heyday as US-Iran mediator is a thin veil over its domestic crises.

4. Notes from the Editors (of Monthly Review).

5. Vijay Prashad: Socialism is slow to mature.

6. Sara Kazmi: The Marxist Punjabi Movement: Language and Literary Radicalism in Pakistan – III: Language and Literature in the Punjabi Movement: "Lok boli, lok vehaar": the people's language, the people's world.

7. Dr Saulat Nagi: Why Imperialism Fears Iran: Insights from Samir Amin.

8. Imran Bajwa: Two Trillion Dollars War.

9. From the Archives: PMR January 2019: Rashed Rahman: Inquilabi Tabdeeli ki Muasar Jadd-o-Jehad (The contemporary struggle for revolutionary change) (Urdu).

10. Daud Zafar Nadeem: Mahrang Baloch aur Punjab (Urdu).

11. Letter to the Editor: Daud Zafar Nadeem: Mao Spectre (Urdu).

Rashed Rahman

Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)

Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)