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Poetry POLITICS

Ode to SOAS Occupation

The Space On the 6th of October at around 7 pm sixty students entered and occupied the Brunei Suite, which is on the ground floor of the Brunei gallery of SOAS, and thus began the SOAS occupation. The Suite is a rectangle space about 18 meters by 11 with a total area of around 170 square…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

Gone in 300 Seconds: On the Land Grab in Balochistan

The spineless and pusillanimous members of the selected Balochistan Assembly handed over 9000 acres (36.42 sq km) of the protected Hingol National Park land to the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in record 300 seconds giving away 30 acres per second. Made me wonder how much time would they take to hand over…

ByMir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Class Struggle

That for many – billions – life isn’t Either easy, a bed, a house furnished, or food in the stomach, it isn’t a laugh an orgasm or smiles its hard, like ground constantly, over centuries, pounded. its sick – like bills that pile up and up and up and up. It smells of unemployment and…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

Is Kashmir Ready for Independence from India and Pakistan?

Against the backdrop of recently renewed talks between India and Pakistan and the historical baggage it carries with failed negotiations in the last 60 years, it is hard to know how long the current round of congeniality would last. If the dialogue continues this time, for sure Kashmir will be…

The Gun-Slave Cycle

The prisoner sits across from me in the cramped airless cubicle behind the plexiglass hands gently folded during this middle passage between life and death wrists ringed by steel forged by Smith & Wesson It is an old story of guns and slavery Into the lower decks of the ships the European merchants loaded chests…

ByMarcus Rediker

INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Women Changing India: An Interview with Urvashi Butalia

How does feminism manifest itself in your every day life? Feminism simply is my way of life. I breath it and base my decisions on it. I run my company on feminist principles. For example I employ women and men, but it’s important to me that both can ask for time off to be with…

ByJeanny Gering

Is Britain complicit in human rights violations in Balochistan?

Balochistan, bordering Iran to the West and Afghanistan to the North, was an independent country before the British attacked and invaded it in 1839. The Baloch ruler, at the time, Mir Mehrab Khan along with hundreds of Baloch fighters died while defending Balochistan. Later the British draw two artificial lines (borders), the Goldsmith Line (1871)…

ByFaiz M Baluch

INTERVIEWS Philosophy POLITICS

Prefiguration of a Common Dream: An Interview with David Graeber

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you explain why you support horizontal organisation, collective assemblies and a dialogical method for organising for social change as opposed to the vertical left party? David Gaeber: I like to make the distinction between forms of organization that could exist outside structures of coercion – that is, in the absence of…

ByDavid Graeber

Journalism Between ‘Red Lines’

Journalists in balochistan are not journalists. They are jugglers and acrobats. Dancing to the tune of various groups. Let me state it more clearly, Journalists in Balochistan have to tread a fine line vaguely defined by religious militant outfits, nationalist separatists and operatives of intelligence agencies. Each group has its own red lines that if…

Teachers Assistants Striking Against Neo-Liberalism in Education: An Interview with Ayyaz Mallick

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you tell us what role Teaching Assistants play in the University of Toronto and York University? Ayyaz Mallick: Teaching Assistants (TAs) at both universities are the main point of contact between undergraduate students and the faculty. TAs perform a number of duties, such as running tutorials, marking papers and assignments, invigilating…

ByQalandar Bux Memon

A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia

A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia J. Ann Tickner begins her essay Hans Morgantheau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation with “international politics is a man’s world, a world of power and conflict in which warfare is a privileged activity”. In all wars or conflicts it is women, who bear the real…

Shu Arab Spring?

(Naked Punch Review Issue 16 Editorial by Vijay Prashad Published 9/4/14) I. Tornado. A tornado seems to have swept through the narrow Gaza Strip. Every few years (2014, 2012, 2009, 2006….) this tornado makes its appearance. It lashes the day, lasts weeks and creates devastation that takes months and years to repair. Names are given this…

ByVijay Prashad