People’s Media Against Monopoly Capital: A Conversation with P. Sainath
On fighting corporate media with journalism from below.
The Student Intifada: Palestine, South Asia and the Question of Solidarity
A roundtable with student organizers from the Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, Toronto, and Oxford encampments.
Voices of Baloch Nationalism: A Conversation with Mahrang Baloch
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.
On Punjab: An Interview with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali discusses the place of Punjab — its partition, its politicians and activists, and its poetry and languages — in the history of the subcontinent.
“I am a tea worker and I have the right to speak”
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.
“Remember the Dead, Fight For the Living”
Interview with labour activist Taslima Akhter on garment workers’ struggles in ten years since the Rana Plaza tragedy.
Domestic Defiance: On Pakistan’s First Trade Union Federation for Home-Based Workers
A conversation with Zehra Khan, a trade unionist and founder of Pakistan’s first trade union for home-based women workers.
Fighting the Sweatshop Regime: A Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri
The sweatshop regime will only be dismantled by mobilizing around—and transforming—work-spaces, life-spaces, and workers’ health in a holistic sense.
Aurat, Azadi: Feminism and its Future in Pakistan
An interview with Ismat Shahjahan on the dynamics and contestations in Pakistan’s growing feminist movement.
21st Century Imperialism: A Debate Within the Pakistani Left - (Part 2)
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).
21st Century Imperialism: A Debate Within the Pakistani Left - (Part 1)
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.
Empire and its Enemies: A Conversation with Priyamvada Gopal
For Jamhoor’s 2022 annual special issue on Imperialism in South Asia, we interviewed Priyamvada Gopal, renowned scholar on race, colonialism and imperialism.