About the Book: Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship
Even as they were taking place, the events that shook Pakistan in 196869 were
underplayed in the Western media. Following a long period of tumult, a radical
coalition—led by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto—brought down the military regime of Field
Marshal Ayub Khan, just as it was celebrating its tenth "glorious" anniversary.
Students, soon joined by workers and later by virtually every subaltern social
stratum (including sex workers), took on the state apparatus of a corrupt and
decaying military dictatorship created and backed by the United States. They
were joined by workers, lawyers, white-collar employees,