Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?

Part 2 of our two part discussion with leaders of Pakistan’s three major leftist parties – Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Awami Workers’ Party), Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party) and Syed Azeem (Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party).

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.

Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese “imperialism”?

Western tendencies to either forget Afghanistan or to lament the state of affairs is ahistorical and based on systematic colonial amnesia.

For Jamhoor’s 2022 annual special issue on Imperialism in South Asia, we interviewed Priyamvada Gopal, renowned scholar on race, colonialism and imperialism.

A reflection on the several faultlines that need addressing to further emancipatory politics in South Asia’s countryside.

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.

A photo essay on the social and physical infrastructures of protest built by the Indian farmers’ movement on the borders of Delhi.

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

Recovering the memory of a forgotten pioneer of the communist movement in undivided India.

The 2013 Shahbagh movement offers a critical context for reading the contested histories, paradoxes, and possibilities of left-wing nationalism in Bangladesh's semi-centennial year.