State Violence in Canada: Police Attacks Community Demanding Justice for Ejaz Choudry
Seven community members arrested for protesting the “reasonable” murder of Choudry, a 62 year old Pakistani-Canadian killed by Police in June 2020.
The Indian Farmers’ Protest
Oats for Breakfast and Jamhoor in converation with Professor Navyug Gill on the ongoing farmers’ protests in India.
Manufacturing Soldiers
In a book that breaks new ground in scholarship on Pakistani militarism, Maria Rashid explores how the Pakistan Army manages emotions like grief, pride and fear among foot soldiers and their families.
Language for Liberation: The Class Struggle Behind Ekushey (21st) February
February 21, 1952 remains one of the most significant dates in the history of Bangladesh, a landmark day in the context of the 1971 liberation war. To understand how the Bhasha Andolan (Language Movement) became a mass uprising, we must look at the class struggle that led up to the movement.
Pakistan’s One-Percent
A review of Rosita Armytage’s Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan.
The Sindhiyani Tehreek: Revolutionary Feminism in Sindh?
With the revival of Pakistan’s feminist movement, Memon recovers one of the country’s less-appreciated women-led organizations—one rooted in the peasantry, not the urban middle-class.
The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.
Beware the Gujarat Model in India’s Covid-19 Recovery
Modi’s Gujarat reconstruction model, combining muscular Hindu nationalism with hi-tech modernity and neoliberal privatized development, threatens India’s COVID recovery.
Kamala Harris’s “American Journey”: Caste, Global Mobility & State Power
As the Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris is celebrated by South Asian communities, Kohli reflects on intertwined caste, class and imperial forces fueling her ascent to global power.
Spaces of Resistance: From Indian Coffee House to Tihar Jail
With an alarming rise in political prisoners in BJPs India, a reflection on the historic use of prisons and other urban spaces in resisting authoritarianism.
Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.