Shozab Raza
shozabraza.bsky.social
Shozab Raza
@shozabraza.bsky.social
prof. at University of Toronto | editor at jamhoor.org | politics, critical theory, worldly marxism | www.shozabraza.com
What concepts and strategies does Marxism offer for liberation and decolonization today?

Join us for a workshop on global Marxism starting tomorrow, featuring @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social and others (including several @dukepress.bsky.social authors).

www.translatingmarxism.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.
September 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
University of Toronto faculty and librarians have passed a historic divestment motion, calling on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from companies profiting from war crimes in Palestine, Sudan, and beyond.

utfadivestmyupp.ca
May 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Friends in Princeton: I’d love to see you at my talk this week, where I’ll be in conversation with @prakashzone.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Friends in upstate New York: I'd love to see you at my talk next week at Cornell: events.cornell.edu/event/theory...

Or at Syracuse: www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
March 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here, you can find some of Rasoolpuri's writings (in Urdu and Siraiki), including on the Siraiki national question and the relationship between Marxism and literature:

https://buff.ly/3CzC5ns
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Recently published, the first Siraiki translation of The Communist Manifesto.

Translated by the late Aslam Rasoolpuri (1941-2024) --- a fierce lawyer, writer, and activist from Pakistan's South Punjab region who inhabited the vexed space between Siraiki nationalism and communist internationalism.
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Between black and red, between Islam and communism.

Rest in power comrade Ghulam Farid, peasant leader and former president of Pakistan's communist Mazdoor Kisan Party -- district Rajanpur.

#radicalhistory
January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM