S1E3.b: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar on Building a Political Society & Social Movements in Pakistan

Media Against Monopoly: A Conversation with P. Sainath

Hadia Akhtar interviews award-winning writer, journalist and activist P. Sainath. Currently based in Mumbai, Sainath serves as the founder and editor of People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), which is an independent, multimedia, digital platform which showcases the stories of rural people and their impact on Indian politics and more.  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

“I am a tea worker and I have the right to speak”

Khairun Akhtar, a rank-and-file tea worker, speaks on the conditions that led to the unprecedented wildcat strike in August 2022 across tea plantations in Bangladesh. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Interview with Priyamvada Gopal

You’re listening to a special podcast to launch Jamhoor’s summer 2022 issue on Imperialism in South Asia. Visit our website jamhoor.org [http://www.jamhoor.org] to learn more. In the past year, we witnessed the catastrophic ending of the US occupation of Afghanistan, the discovery of unmarked mass graves of indigenous children in Canada, the uneven distribution of COVID vaccines and a deepening of the conflict between the US and China. Imperialism has returned to centre stage.  We are speaking today with a fierce critic of imperialism: Priyamvada Gopal. Priya is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Cambridge University. Her teaching and research interests include colonial and postcolonial studies, the novel, South Asian literature and critical race studies. She is the author of several books, including most recently, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (published by Verso in 2020). Priya is also a well-known public intellectual, who was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/jamhoor] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Labour in Karachi's Fast Fashion Industry

Fawad Hasan interviews labour organizer Yaseen Jhullan on the issues and demands of garment workers in Karachi Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/jamhoor] (https://www.patreon.com/jamhoor) ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

S1E3.b: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar on Building a Political Society & Social Movements in Pakistan

In the second part of our interview with Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, we discuss the Left's response to religious extremism and the climate crisis, as well as the role of national and social movements. In doing so, Aasim speaks to the role of class consciousness, the importance of both movements as well as organizations, and the longer-term project of building a political society. This episode is part of Jamhoor Radio's first season on progressive and revolutionary politics in Pakistan. This episode is in Urdu, with a translation in English provided. Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/jamhoor] (https://www.patreon.com/jamhoor) ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.