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Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia

Dominique B. — 2025-10-20T20:50:40Z

Since the 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka that ousted President Rajapaksa, South Asia has been swept by a wave of revolts that have toppled three governments and threaten most regimes.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kashmir, Nepal

Kashmir, India, Pakistan: on the history and internationalist stakes of a state of war

Pierre Rousset — 2025-05-17T17:01:13Z

This article attempts to take stock of the recent ‘hot' crisis between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Many factors need to be taken into account. Recent events are undoubtedly part of a long history of military tensions and wars dating back to the disastrous partition imposed on the sub-continent by British imperialism in 1947. In recent years, however, profound changes have affected the countries concerned, as well as the geopolitical environment, regional management of water resources and the weapons used. So we cannot assume that history will simply repeat itself almost identically. This is perhaps the main question before us: what's new? The answer, of course, lies primarily with the left-wing organisations in the region. I shall confine myself to submitting some elements of analysis or hypotheses for discussion and criticism, even if I have to revise later my copy.

- Features / Pakistan, India, Kashmir

Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor

Radical Socialist — 2025-05-08T21:20:02Z

The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.

- News from around the world / Pakistan, India, Kashmir

On the Ongoing India-Pakistan Conflict and the Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir

Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party — 2025-05-08T11:01:16Z

Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)

- News from around the world / Pakistan, India, Kashmir

The Indus Water Treaty

Mohammad Ebad Athar, Mona Bhan — 2024-08-29T07:41:45Z

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, erratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for sustenance.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, National question

An urgent appeal to raise voices for the safety of political activist, human rights defender Shah Nawaz Ali Sher

Nisar Shah — 2021-05-18T14:45:08Z

Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP) calls to raise voices for the safety of political activist, human rights defender Shah Nawaz Ali Sher arrested by the authorities in Pakistani-occupied Jammu Kashmir.

- IV556 - May 2021 / Pakistan, Kashmir

A Year Has Passed Since August 5, 2019, but the Menace Still Hangs Heavy in the Air

Siddiq Wahid — 2020-08-28T07:47:47Z

The past year under the BJP has helped us in Kashmir to grasp, up close, what an attempt at total political domination looks like.

- IV547 - August 2020 / Kashmir

Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India

Mona Bhan, Purnima Bose — 2020-07-28T05:32:56Z

Pandemics generate their own vocabularies, and the “novel coronavirus” is no exception. In the United States the vocabulary of COVID-19 of “sheltering-in-place” and “lockdowns” resonates with Cold War era anxieties about nuclear war and more recent fears about gun violence.

- IV546 - July 2020 / India, Kashmir, Covid-19 Pandemic

Hindutva on the march

Achin Vanaik — 2019-09-04T09:02:18Z

Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Pakistan, India, Kashmir

Protest in Dhaka against the repression on the people of Kashmir by Indian army

Badrul Alam — 2019-09-04T08:26:51Z

A human chain and rally was organized calling upon to stop attack, repression and massacre on the people of Kashmir by Indian army.

- News from around the world / Kashmir, Bangladesh