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.

Rethinking hegemony and resistance in land conflicts in the post-civil war Sri Lankan North.

In post-war Sri Lanka, women navigate class, caste, gender, and religious discrimination to access land and livelihoods.

A leading organizer reflects on the strategic successes of the movement.

On the history and terror of mining in the Indian state of Meghalaya

An interview with a Dalit leader of the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA) on casteism and racism in post-war Britain, Black-Dalit solidarity, and reconciling Ambedkar and Marx via Mao.

A review of Rosita Armytage’s Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan.

Modi’s Gujarat reconstruction model, combining muscular Hindu nationalism with hi-tech modernity and neoliberal privatized development, threatens India’s COVID recovery.

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.

As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.

By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.

It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.