South Asia

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‘Azad’ Kashmir’s unheard rebellion: Voices from the people’s struggle

Haris Qadeer — Pakistan-Administered Jammu and Kashmir (PAJK) have experienced one of the most significant waves of mass mobilisation in recent years.
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India: Rajnath Singh faces Australia test as far right hold protests against diaspora

N Sai Balaji — Will Rajnath Singh, who is part of a political party with a conspicuously similar anti-immigrant political approach, intervene to assure some diplomatic security to the Indian community in Australia?
Nepal protests

Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.
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Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Roman Gautam — After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment.
Youth in Nepal hold posters demanding an end to corruption during the Gen Z protests.

CPI(ML) Liberation on Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising

CPI(ML) Liberation issues a call to support the youth struggle, defend secular republican democracy, resist the monarchy’s return, and ensure peace.
Quit India Movement march

From anti-imperialism to compromise: Class politics of Indian independence

Soumya Sahin examines India’s independence, situating 1947 within the broader crises of global imperialism, the shifting balance of class forces, and the strategic calculations of the British state.
Devanahalli Farmers' Historic Victor

India: A milestone in democratic resistance

Clifton D’Rozario — The success of the Devanahalli struggle in building a fighting unity between farmer, Ambedkarite and Left traditions could provide a strong foundation for strengthening grassroots struggles.
Jammu Kashmir protest

Political self-determination for Kashmir

Sushovan Dhar — Among the most affected by the recent Indo-Pakistani armed conflict are the people of Kashmir, who find themselves ensnared in this geopolitical rivalry.
CPIML unity

Lal Nishan Party's unification with CPI(ML) Liberation: Towards a stronger Communist movement in India to defeat the fascist offensive

CPI(ML) Liberation — To defeat the growing fascist offensive, India today urgently needs a stronger presence and role of the left.
Advasis

India: Operation Kagar — The war on Adivasis and for a ‘Maoist-free India’ (plus CPIML Liberation statements)

CPI(ML) Liberation — Operation Kagar is an extra-judicial extermination campaign aimed at suppressing Adivasi protests and carried out in the name of combating Maoism.
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One hundred hours of solitude: A Pakistani peacenik recounts the India-Pakistan war

The India-Pakistan war is apparently over for now — but it has not stopped for peaceniks, recounts Farooq Sulehria.
Citizens share a box of sweets and hold up posters celebrating the success of Operation Sindoor in Bengaluru on Wednesday

Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and after: Lessons India must learn (plus: Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor, ceasefire: Pressing questions awaiting answers)

Dipankar Bhattacharya — Events from the terrorist attack in Pahalgam to the announced ceasefire have given rise to questions regarding India's national security and foreign policy.

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