Place: Asia
I am writing from Afghanistan, where days end with fear and nights end with anxiety. We Afghan girls no longer know whether life should be called life or simply “survival.”
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
75 Years After Partition: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh offers a timely, interdisciplinary intervention into the cultural memory, historiography, and ideological reproduction of the 1947 Partition of British India and the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. Spanning cinema, literature, textbooks,
Farooq Sulehria reviews the new edited volume Propaganda, Communication and Empire, a critical analysis of media representation of western intervention in Afghanistan.
The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history.
This is an excellent book by historian Hafsa Kanjwal about the colonization of Kashmir that the Indian State has carried out since gaining independence from the British Empire and undergoing the tragedy of Partition.
In this conversation with Alternative Viewpoint, Pakistani left activist, academic and journalist Farooq Sulehria examines the
Samuel Farber responds to Mesa-Lago’s comments and argues that China cannot be a model for Cuba, noting the connection between political repression and their model of capital accumulation in China.
In response to Samuel Farber’s critique, Carmelo Mesa-Lago defends his economic reform proposals for Cuba as Keynesian and anti-neoliberal.
Samuel Farber critically reviews Carmelo Mesa-Lago’s latest book comparing Cuba with China and Vietnam, and its proposals for market reform in Cuba.
Summary: The people of Afghanistan and Pakistan are trapped in the same vicious circle — victims of their ruling elites, militaries, and clerics who use religion and war for power and profit. It is time both nations’ ordinary people recognize
At the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro (6–7 July 2025), no real desire to break away from the US currency was expressed. De-dollarzation remains a distant prospect.
Less than a year after taking office, Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto faced the most militant anti-government protests in years.
For the past four years, I have been breathing in a country where the sky is constantly collapsing on women’s heads. As an Afghan girl, I welcome each sunrise not knowing whether I will see sunset on that day. In
Stephen Shalom critically reviews Walden Bello’s autobiography Global Battlefields, which covers Bello’s political and intellectual contributions in the Philippines over the past fifty years.
Richard Smith argues that repression of workers in China is the main reason for its trade advantage, and calls for a trade policy based on solidarity with Chinese workers.
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
Ruo Yan and Andrew Sebald introduce a symposium on the independent working-class struggles in China, calling for international solidarity.
Zoe Zhao and Olia Shu analyze many forms of exploitation of women workers in China, such as in family workshops and digital platforms, and their resistance.
Zhang Mazi highlights the power held by Foxconn workers and calls on US workers to build solidarity, including by targeting Foxconn’s global supply chains.
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