Author: salw
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Punjabi Workers in Toronto Are Fighting Wage Theft—And They’re Winning
Inspired by India’s recent farmer protests, immigrant truckers and students are bringing fresh militant tactics to their struggle for worker justice in the greater…
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Indian Farmers Rise Up Against Corporatization
Thousands of Indian farmers have parked outside the capital Delhi for more than 100 days. They have pitched tents on five highways that lead…
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How Hindu Nationalism Came to Rule
The story of how India came to this point isn’t just one of bigotry and state violence, but also of the failures of capitalism…
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Modi’s Mass Muslim Detention Scheme
by Serene Kasim and Saurav Sarkar, crossposted from Jacobin On August 31, the right-wing Hindu Indian government labeled 1.9 million of its residents as…
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Nestle workers locked out of Kabirwala factory for months
Workers at a Nestle factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan are engaged in a months-long struggle with factory management and the multinational corporation. South Asia Labor…
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Organizing the Invisible: The Movement to Unionize Domestic Workers in Bangalore
by Lavanya Nott It is a weekday afternoon in early October. About fifteen women ranging in age from about twenty to sixty gather in…
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Building Cities, Demolishing Lives
by Natasha Narwal On September 11, 2014, residents of E block, Aya Nagar, Delhi woke up to see bulldozers at their doorstep. Accompanied by the…
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Struggling to the End: A Review of C. Christine Fair’s New Book on Pakistan’s Army
A famous saying goes: countries have armies; in Pakistan, the army has a country. As a result, it seems important for those interested in…
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Whither the World: a short note on Narendra Modi
If you have spent any time on social media that deals with India, you have run across the name of its new Prime Minister,…
