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

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Ash Sarkar

The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest…

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Ash Sarkar

Immigration has tremendously changed the fabric of this country. Immigration is what built our NHS, when Britain invited people from the Commonwealth,…

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Ash Sarkar

Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were…

— 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

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— 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

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

— Ash Sarkar

It's important to recognise that opposing racism isn't just about presenting an alternative set of values; it's about looking at how the…

— Ash Sarkar

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

— 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

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