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.
Bangladesh: The Next Frontier
With the climate crisis looming large on the horizon, Bangladesh must confront imperialist powers, old and new, to ensure its survival.
Imperialisms in Our Time: Making Sense of “Chinese Characteristics”
Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese “imperialism”?
Sri Lanka’s Dual Crisis: Ethnic Conflict & the Debt Economy
Reimagining a pluralist Sri Lanka in the wake of the ‘Gota Go Home’ movement.
Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards Further Turmoil: Roots of the 2022 Economic Crisis
Tracing colonial underdevelopment, incomplete industrialization and misplaced priorities in Sri Lanka.
“Strikes Are Normal Growing up”: Plantation Politics in Sri Lanka
An interview with Menaha Kandaswamy, former General Secretary of the Ceylon Plantation Workers’ Union.
Itineraries of Insurgency in Rural India
Sara Abraham speaks to veteran Odia activist and author Ranjana Padhi.
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.
Terror in the Coal Mines of North-East India
On the history and terror of mining in the Indian state of Meghalaya
“Bangladesh Has No Indigenous People”
To prevent the extinction of Adibashis, the Bangladesh government must recognize their right to self-determination.
Degrowth Remains a Slogan
Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective – with not enough to offer regions like South Asia.