Essays.

Hassan Turi explores how land disputes and Afghan wars have created conditions ripe for sectarian violence in Kurram.

Sri Lanka condemns Israel’s military actions in Palestine while maintaining military control and settlement programmes in Tamil territories.  

With brutal torture and disappearances, the Pakistani state continues colonial strategies of collective punishment in Balochistan.

On the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies

As the current Hindu right-wing regime continues to perpetuate the century-old colonial stigmatization of a Muslim peasantry led anti-colonial rebellion in British India, a historical communist recuperation of the movement and its legacies is warranted

The Mazdoor Kisan Party’s debate on armed struggle and electoral politics as political strategies

Siraj Sikder and Sarbahara Party’s violent yet emancipatory struggles hold key lessons for Bangladesh and its post-authoritarian future.

On the Tamil Eelam Right to Self-Determination and Peace in the Indian Ocean.

How budgets constrain inclusive development in South Asia.

Can the NPP confront its past and present to build a radical program?

The Rohingya will be the litmus test for a “new” Bangladesh’s progressive ideals.

افغان مہاجرین اور پناہگزین کا سوال سندھ کے بائیں بازو، ترقی پسند اور قوم پرست تنظیموں کے لئے سوالیہ نشان ہے

The question of Afghan migrants is a test case for Sindh’s Left, progressive, and nationalist groups.

Refugee Cities is a people’s history of Afghan displacement in Pakistan over the past 40 years. Alimia shares a new foreword to the book’s Pakistan edition with Jamhoor.

Interrogating colonial and neoliberal fiscal policy to chart a path out of underdevelopment.

Independent researchers accuse the ruling Awami League government of massacre.

Echoes of past anti-authoritarian uprisings reverberate within anti-quota protests.

A brief history of 200 years of involuntary migration, imposed statelessness, exploitation and marginalization of Upcountry or Malaiyaha Tamil tea plantation workers.

Marxist, feminist, and anti-imperialist Urdu writers associated with literary progressivism in South Asia have long written of Palestinian resistance. Their solidarity can guide us today as we try to learn once again, together, from the liberation struggles that are moving us towards a new world.

Recent deportations of Afghan refugees reveal the historical contradictions of citizenship and national identity in Pakistan.

Even though domestic workers have supported the country during the crisis, it has failed to recognize them as workers.

ऐसे समय में जबकि भारत की उत्तर साम्राज्यवादी देशों की वैश्विक एकजुटता नीति को छोड़ कर मोदी इसराइल के साथी बन रहे हैं - जिसने फिलिस्तीनी मजदूरों को हटा 100000 भारतीय मजदूरों को वहाँ भेजने के लिए कहा है - भारत का कामगार तबका और छात्र आन्दोलन फिलिस्तीन के प्रति अपना समर्थन दोहराते हैं |

For Indian and Soviet filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s, cinema emerged as a site to forge a hopeful, if tenuous, ethos of socialist internationalism.

America’s unequivocal support for Israel stems from its legacy of imperialist interventions and war crimes in the Global South.