Over 50 years after the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, the internment of Bengalis in Pakistan remains unacknowledged in both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Ilyas Ahmad Chattha’s new book explores this hidden history and its implications for citizenship and belonging in contemporary South Asia. 

How a seemingly banal ‘legal’ tool enables the destruction of Muslim spaces across India.

A defense of the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party’s anti-imperialist position that critiques sectarian and messianic tendencies on the Pakistani Left, and advances a dialectical, universalist strategy for socialist renewal in the country.

The Pakistani Left's divergent responses to the recent India-Pakistan conflict reveal deep ideological contradictions and strategic blind spots.

Despite its ostensibly revolutionary origins, Bangladesh's student-led party finds itself in questionable company in the new political landscape. What does its trajectory tell us about "post ideological" politics?

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.

Statement by International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India) against the Indian state’s escalating violence against the Indigenous Adivasi communities in the Bastar Division of the state of Chhattisgarh.

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

Tariq Mehmood, a founding member of the United Black Youth League and one of the Bradford 12, reflects on self-defence as an act of necessary revolutionary violence.