Asia

Feminists from India and Pakistan call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue, and justice in the wake of renewed hostilities between the two nations.

Farooq Sulehria — While the hawks dominate the mosque and media in Pakistan, the hearts and minds of Pakistan’s ordinary people have always been captivated by her Dervish poets.

Ammar Ali Jan discusses the current India-Pakistan ceasefire deal, self-determination for Kashmir and steps towards peace in the region. 

Farooq Tariq — Many friends and comrades have asked if I think a full-fledged war is now erupting between two nuclear-armed neighbours. My reply has been that war has already started.

Chris Slee — ‘China in Global Capitalism’ is an excellent introduction to China today, which looks at the nature of Chinese society and the reasons for China’s growing conflict with the United States.

Statements by Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist Liberation, Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan), Southasia Peace Action Network, and Asia Europe People’s Forum on the escalating threat of an India-Pakistan war.

The struggle in Arakan is not merely a local ethnic or sectarian clash but a microcosm of Myanmar’s broader civil war, where competing nationalisms, geopolitical interests and survival instincts collide.

Dipankar Bhattacharya — The people must unite against fascist forces’ despicable attempts to sow further hatred and insist on holding those in power accountable to ensure the truth does not become another casualty of the Pahalgam tragedy.

Joint statement by Indian and Pakistani peace activists and statements from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan) on the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam and subsequent escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.

Max Lane — At the heart of the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines were issues of democratic centralism, absolutist deviations, militarist thinking and rejection of the Maoist approach to guerrilla warfare.

Jeyakumar Devaraj — For the past several years, Parti Sosialis Malaysia has been presenting fresh perspectives that the mainstream political parties are either unable to conceptualize or unwilling to articulate.

Phil A Neel — Asia’s ascent and the gradual decline of the wealthiest countries’ investments in Africa do not represent the decay of US hegemony, but instead its strengthening through the agglomeration of new, subimperial power centers.