Ash Sarkar

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

— Ash Sarkar

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

— Ash Sarkar

You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight.

— Ash Sarkar

Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.

— Ash Sarkar

No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.

— Ash Sarkar

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

— Ash Sarkar

More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.

— Ash Sarkar

It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is…

— Ash Sarkar

Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.

— Ash Sarkar

The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I…

— Ash Sarkar

This is what people have been missing: politics shouldn't be about the dour cultishness and pomposity that dominated the left for decades…

— Ash Sarkar

Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British revolutionary activity - and women were at the heart of this insurrectionist…

— Ash Sarkar

Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield…

— Ash Sarkar

The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must,…

— Ash Sarkar

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

— Ash Sarkar

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped…

— Ash Sarkar

When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're…

— Ash Sarkar

Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But…

— Ash Sarkar

The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the…

— Ash Sarkar

International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism.…

— Ash Sarkar

So, there are lots of different reasons why people came out to protest Boris Johnson, but what they were united in was…

— Ash Sarkar

But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people.…

— Ash Sarkar

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not…

— Ash Sarkar

“Attention, as well as being a commodity that can be monetised through digital platforms, is a psychological wage. We know this from…

— Ash Sarkar

My mum was an anti-racist activist in the 70s and 80s.

— Ash Sarkar

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

— Ash Sarkar

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

— Ash Sarkar

Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on…

— Ash Sarkar

While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left's tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture…

— Ash Sarkar

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

— Ash Sarkar

There shouldn't be a barrier between rich and poor in terms of the kind of health care that they can access.

— Ash Sarkar

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.

— Ash Sarkar

Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment…

— Ash Sarkar

The reason Brexiteers have been so effective is that they have made the fight about broad political values.

— Ash Sarkar

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.

— Ash Sarkar

If you want any hope of staying in the EU, or having a Brexit that doesn't mean capitulation to ethno-nationalism, you've got…

— Ash Sarkar

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

— Ash Sarkar

The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision,…

— Ash Sarkar