This issue explores armed resistance from the vantage point of South Asia. It delves into debates surrounding revolutionary violence and seeks answers in the subcontinent. Thanks to the glorification of Gandhi and his non-violent tactics, South Asia occupies a prominent place in the alleged success story of pacifism. Yet it is also a region where numerous national liberation and anti-imperialist struggles show that revolutionary violence has often been a key instigator and driver of history’s so-called locomotive. The issue presents the political and historical contexts that necessitated such revolutionary violence in lesser-known liberation movements across South Asia, from Balochistan to Bangladesh. 

Launched in 2018, Jamhoor is a Left media platform for South Asia and its diasporas. Our name — “the people” in Urdu — distills our commitments: we are for the people. To be for the people means understanding and combating the structures that weigh us down: imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, casteism, racism, and queerphobia. To be for the people is to refuse the borders that divide us: it is internationalism. To be for the people is to imagine and build radical alternatives that let us thrive: it is to remake the world.