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A roundtable with student organizers from the Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, Toronto, and Oxford encampments.
Jamhoor spoke with renowned activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch on the latest upsurge in the Baloch national struggle, as well as the Pakistani Left and the country’s growing feminist movement.
Tariq Ali discusses the place of Punjab — its partition, its politicians and activists, and its poetry and languages — in the history of the subcontinent.
Interview with Khairun Akhtar, a rank-and-file tea worker, on the conditions that led to the unprecedented wildcat strike in August 2022 across tea plantations in Bangladesh.
Interview with labour activist Taslima Akhter on garment workers’ struggles in ten years since the Rana Plaza tragedy.
A conversation with Zehra Khan, a trade unionist and founder of Pakistan’s first trade union for home-based women workers.
The sweatshop regime will only be dismantled by mobilizing around—and transforming—work-spaces, life-spaces, and workers’ health in a holistic sense.
An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the dynamics and contestations in Pakistan’s growing feminist movement.
Part 2 of our two part discussion with leaders of Pakistan’s three major leftist parties – Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Awami Workers’ Party), Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party) and Syed Azeem (Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party).
The Jamhoor team got together with Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Awami Workers’ Party), Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party) and Syed Azeem (Mazdoor Kissan Party) to think about the challenges and opportunities the Pakistani left faces within the current political and economic conjuncture.
For Jamhoor’s 2022 annual special issue on Imperialism in South Asia, we interviewed Priyamvada Gopal, renowned scholar on race, colonialism and imperialism.
An interview with Menaha Kandaswamy, former General Secretary of the Ceylon Plantation Workers’ Union.
Sara Abraham speaks to veteran Odia activist and author Ranjana Padhi.
Fawad Hasan interviews labour organizer Yaseen Jhullan on the issues and demands of garment workers in Karachi.
An interview with a Dalit leader of the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA) on casteism and racism in post-war Britain, Black-Dalit solidarity, and reconciling Ambedkar and Marx via Mao.
Oats for Breakfast and Jamhoor in converation with Professor Navyug Gill on the ongoing farmers’ protests in India.
In the second part of our collaborative discussion with Oats for Breakfast, we chat about some of the protest movements currently active in India and Pakistan, repression in Kashmir, and class struggle in South Asia.
Oats for Breakfast, in collaboration with Jamhoor, hosts a discussion about South Asia. We chat about Hindutva and the closing off of space for dissent in India and Pakistan.
An interview with Pritam Singh on the demand for Khalistan.
An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the origins, aims, and trajectories of PTM.
An interview with Professor Mohamad Junaid on the current lockdown in Kashmir.
An interview with Mohammad Qadeer, former Associate Editor of Pakistan Forum (1970-73)
In Part II of our interview, Tariq Ali examines the afterlives of 1968 today: global youth insurgencies, anti-imperialist movements, and the tasks of the hour for the Left.
In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Tariq Ali reflects on his memories of the 1968 movement in Pakistan, arguably the only unequivocal success of the wave of protests that shook the world.
Independent filmmaker Iffat Fatima takes Jamhoor through her experience of making her recent documentary on the narratives of families impacted by state violence and enforced disappearances in Kashmir.
Jamhoor interviewed the President of the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement (RSYM), Atif Anik, about his thoughts on the recent transport strike, RSYM’s work, and the character of fascism in South Asia today.
Renowned documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak on the recent crackdown of activists in India, the #MeTooUrbanNaxal campaign, and alternative filmmaking in Modi’s India.
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