People’s Media Against Monopoly Capital: A Conversation with P. Sainath
On fighting corporate media with journalism from below.
The Colonial Roots of Sri Lanka’s Tax Regime
Interrogating colonial and neoliberal fiscal policy to chart a path out of underdevelopment.
“I am a tea worker and I have the right to speak”
Interview with Khairun Akhtar, a rank-and-file tea worker, on the conditions that led to the unprecedented wildcat strike in August 2022 across tea plantations in Bangladesh.
“Remember the Dead, Fight For the Living”
Interview with labour activist Taslima Akhter on garment workers’ struggles in ten years since the Rana Plaza tragedy.
COVID-19 Exposes Faultlines in Sri Lanka’s Apparels Sector
The global pandemic and the national debt crisis collided to expose the claims of ethical garment production in Sri Lanka.
Domestic Defiance: On Pakistan’s First Trade Union Federation for Home-Based Workers
A conversation with Zehra Khan, a trade unionist and founder of Pakistan’s first trade union for home-based women workers.
Labour Qaumi Movement: Organizing at the Margins of the 21st Century Workforce
Tracing the evolution of one of Pakistan’s most successful textile labour unions through radical action against the united onslaught of state and capital.
Fighting the Sweatshop Regime: A Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri
The sweatshop regime will only be dismantled by mobilizing around—and transforming—work-spaces, life-spaces, and workers’ health in a holistic sense.
You Are Not Welcome Here: Race and Hostility in Britain’s Fast Fashion Industry
South Asian garment workers in Leicester are resisting precarity and institutionalised racism in Britain’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants.
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.
Testing Transnational Labour Solidarity in the Laboratory of Bangladesh
To challenge supply chain capitalism meaningfully, we must first recognize and dismantle inherent hierarchies in transnational labour solidarity movements.