Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸
@brosef-stalin.bsky.social
Political Economist | Dravidian Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Just got the new issue of BreakDown. I’ve got an essay in it on the strategic vulnerabilities and liabilities of fossil capital.
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just got the new issue of BreakDown. I’ve got an essay in it on the strategic vulnerabilities and liabilities of fossil capital.
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...
Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction.
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction.
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
We had that with Jeremy in 2017.
We have it again with Zack Polanski.
Me on LBC:
I’m presenting some new work on factory machinery, gender, and social reproduction, how the rhythms of the machine rewire the rhythms of life.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m presenting some new work on factory machinery, gender, and social reproduction, how the rhythms of the machine rewire the rhythms of life.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
Historical Materialism, London
Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.
My dad on South Indian TV, tore into the criminal Zionist state, shredding the US empire’s lies, and hailing Iran and Yemen as the last ones with a spine for Palestine.
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My dad on South Indian TV, tore into the criminal Zionist state, shredding the US empire’s lies, and hailing Iran and Yemen as the last ones with a spine for Palestine.
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...
Had an incredible time in Aarhus. Huge thanks to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies (@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social) organizing committee for the kind invitation
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Had an incredible time in Aarhus. Huge thanks to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies (@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social) organizing committee for the kind invitation
I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters.
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters.
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:
I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along!
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
September 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along!
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd
I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:
Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then”
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then”
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7
Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough
The people of Gaza live and chant “If they uproot one tree, we will plant ten in its place” as the zombie death cult approaches
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The people of Gaza live and chant “If they uproot one tree, we will plant ten in its place” as the zombie death cult approaches
Accusations of antisemitism against Zarah and Jeremy don’t have the mileage they did in 2019. Back then, the press ran stories about Corbyn mispronouncing a pedophile’s name. Epstein. Ep-shtine. The real crime wasn’t sex trafficking, it was the wrong vowel
Me for BreakThrough News:
Me for BreakThrough News:
August 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Accusations of antisemitism against Zarah and Jeremy don’t have the mileage they did in 2019. Back then, the press ran stories about Corbyn mispronouncing a pedophile’s name. Epstein. Ep-shtine. The real crime wasn’t sex trafficking, it was the wrong vowel
Me for BreakThrough News:
Me for BreakThrough News:
The choice we have in the new left party is simple: democracy or bureaucracy. Its founding conference must have one-member-one-vote, directly elected leadership, and a constitution written by members. If not, we risk repeating the failures of Labourism.
Me for BreakThrough News:
Me for BreakThrough News:
August 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The choice we have in the new left party is simple: democracy or bureaucracy. Its founding conference must have one-member-one-vote, directly elected leadership, and a constitution written by members. If not, we risk repeating the failures of Labourism.
Me for BreakThrough News:
Me for BreakThrough News:
I’ll be speaking at the Stop the War meeting at TUC Conference, September 9 in Brighton.
If you’re there, come through
If you’re there, come through
August 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’ll be speaking at the Stop the War meeting at TUC Conference, September 9 in Brighton.
If you’re there, come through
If you’re there, come through
6 months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness during a hearing of this bill. Today, it’s passed! a big win for gig workers
August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
6 months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness during a hearing of this bill. Today, it’s passed! a big win for gig workers
July 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
France “recognising” Palestine is empty symbolism while they arm, fund, and enable Israel’s campaign of extermination. Words mean nothing without full sanctions. Now.
July 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
France “recognising” Palestine is empty symbolism while they arm, fund, and enable Israel’s campaign of extermination. Words mean nothing without full sanctions. Now.
Discussed the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24hrs.
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
July 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Discussed the new Left party led by Corbyn and Sultana. 230,000 people signed up in 24hrs.
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
Millions want to tax the rich, end the wars, redistribute wealth, and build a country that serves people, not billionaires.
They can smear, they can panic, but they can’t stop a movement whose time has come:
The debate on BBC Radio over Israel’s war crimes and Britain’s complicity got heated. I lost my cool. Hard not to when the Israeli propagandist kept lying again and again to justify atrocities
July 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The debate on BBC Radio over Israel’s war crimes and Britain’s complicity got heated. I lost my cool. Hard not to when the Israeli propagandist kept lying again and again to justify atrocities
Clip from my BBC debate with an Israeli propagandist, where I lay out the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s war crimes and the British government’s complicity.
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Clip from my BBC debate with an Israeli propagandist, where I lay out the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s war crimes and the British government’s complicity.
News that Blair planned to profit from the ethnic cleansing of Gaza should shock no one. As the saying goes: when there’s blood on the streets, buy property!
The man’s a ghoul. He should’ve been rotting in a Hague dungeon years ago:
The man’s a ghoul. He should’ve been rotting in a Hague dungeon years ago:
July 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
News that Blair planned to profit from the ethnic cleansing of Gaza should shock no one. As the saying goes: when there’s blood on the streets, buy property!
The man’s a ghoul. He should’ve been rotting in a Hague dungeon years ago:
The man’s a ghoul. He should’ve been rotting in a Hague dungeon years ago:
Speaking at this with others
June 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Speaking at this with others