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.
Eagles and Sharks: Financial Imperialism in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Is there a path out of the imperialist debt trap for South Asia's troubled economies?
Neoliberal Dreams and Nightmares: Hegemony and the Middle Class in Pakistan
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s latest book provides an illuminating account of the political and cultural apparatus of aspiration and coercion that underpins neoliberalism in the Global South.
In Memoriam: Comrade Omar Latif (1952-2021)
A tribute to a tireless communist, chief among “the misguided”.
Imperialisms in Our Time: Making Sense of “Chinese Characteristics”
Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese “imperialism”?
Land Reforms Are Dead, Long Live Land Reforms: Thoughts on Land Struggles in Pakistan
By juxtaposing communist-led land-to-the-tiller struggles in 1970s Pakistan with current movements against real-estatization, we see the prospects and limits of redistributive land politics.
Labour in Karachi’s Fast Fashion Industry
Fawad Hasan interviews labour organizer Yaseen Jhullan on the issues and demands of garment workers in Karachi.
Comrade Abdul Majid: Fragments from a Revolutionary Life
Recovering the memory of a forgotten pioneer of the communist movement in undivided India.
The Caricatured Bengali & the Pakistan Army
A look at the racist beliefs about Bengalis peddled privately and publicly by Pakistani military officials in the lead up to 1971.
Frontier Fantasies: Encounters with Xinjiang in Gilgit-Baltistan
A travelogue along the Karakoram Highway exploring the relationship of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan territory with China’s Xinjiang province, home to the persecuted Uyghurs.
Cyclone Bhola: The Disaster That Re-Made South Asia
The cyclone in 1970, though not always recognized, was instrumental in the independence of Bangladesh.
Birds of Paradise
Three captivating short stories on the Bangladesh Freedom Struggle that vividly capture the disruption and outbreak of violence during the period.