The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organizing in Post-War Britain
Militant South Asians refused to be “model minorities” and instead united with racialized communities to confront racism and capitalism in post-War Britain
Desi America United
Highlighting a rich legacy of desi organizing in America, Iman Sultan traces her journey with activists and organisers emerging in a new Left movement.
Remembering the Ghadar Party
Resonances of radical, anti-colonial struggle in our contemporary moment.
Indian Tech Workers in the US: Bourgeois Individualists, Saffron Trumpists, or Proletarian Insurgents?
From an organiser for Tech Workers Coalition, prospects for organising Indian tech workers in San Francisco’s Bay Area.
Firebranding the Frontier: The Women of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement
Pakistan’s military declared that their “time is up”, but the PTM will prevail – buoyed by its resilient women.
On Christchurch and Settler Violence
Reflections on how to read far-right terrorism today.
The Afterlives of Mashal Khan
Mashal Khan is an inspiration for the unfinished resistance against creeping fascism on campuses and growing neo-liberalization of the education system in Pakistan.
The Radical Foundation of Indian Technoscience
Indian engagement with modern technoscience originated with the Independence movement, infusing it with an anti-imperialist politics.
Good Sufi, Bad Salafi: Is Pakistan’s Romance with Sufism Backfiring?
With a politicized Barelvism leading the recent protests against Aasia Bibi’s acquittal, has the Pakistani state’s romance with Barelvism, the supposedly soft and Sufi Islam, backfired?
The Nation-State is Not Our Friend: On Celebrating the Repeal of Section 377
Uncritically celebrating the repeal of Section 377 (India’s anti-sodomy law) as a milestone of decolonization obscures the complicity and exclusion inherent to the nation-state.
On Whose Side is the Government? The St. James Town Fire and the Housing Crisis
St. James Town is a largely South Asian and working-class neighbourhood in Toronto. What does the recent fire in two of its high-rises tell us about the city’s housing crisis?
Left Politics in Bastar
Noted Indian academic and human rights activist Bela Bhatia surveys the political situation in India’s tribal region of Bastar.