This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the systematic repression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Northwest China. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2017, the author documents how China's “People's War on Terror,” declared in May 2014, has transformed the Uyghur homeland into an open-air prison. The article traces the historical roots of Han Chinese settler colonialism in the region, examining how socialist-era (…)

Something fundamental has shifted in India. We can sense it not only in the obvious places—parliament, television studios, election rallies—but in the slower, quieter zones of life: in schools, where fear becomes a language; around village wells, where caste still decides the order of thirst; in the silence that descends when the name of a minority religious community is uttered in anger; and in a thousand unspoken hesitations that now punctuate ordinary speech. The anxieties of a neoliberal (…)

In this interview, British historian and trade union activist Chris Ford traces the eleven-year history of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, which he co-founded following Euromaidan. Ford describes how he first engaged with Ukraine through the Polish Solidarity movement in the 1980s, smuggling dissident literature into Soviet Ukraine and supporting independent trade unions. He explains how the USC has built support for Ukraine within the British labour movement, growing from two affiliated (…)