Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar is a writer, activist and a PhD candidate of Economic Geography at Oxford University. He was a contributor to The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance (Pluto 2011) and It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest (Verso 2012). He tweets at @broseph_stalin.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 20:42 - 2 Comments
Special Report | Fighting Fire With Fire: Uncovering the unglamorous underbelly of Fashion Week
As Fashion Week hits New York, Ashok Kumar and Chetan Ahimsa uncover the history of exploitation in clothing factories, and the contemporary movements resisting the dangers involved in modern production.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, July 17, 2012 0:00 - 25 Comments
Special Report | The rise (and fall?) of Adidas
Multinational apparel company Adidas has turned itself into a global branding juggernaut whilst simultaneously avoiding any public scrutiny over the working conditions of its factory workers. Ashok Kumar explores the development of the global anti-sweatshop movement and shows how two decades of activism have culminated in a new multi-nation campaign against the company.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Sunday, May 27, 2012 23:54 - 3 Comments
Special Report | NATO Summit Protests – Chicago 2012
Ceasefire's Ashok Kumar reports from Chicago on the city's anti-NATO protests, which took place last weekend.
New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch, Special Reports - Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 - 63 Comments
Special Report | Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics
Hosting the Olympics is often presented to us as an ideologically neutral opportunity to boost tourism and sports. In a thought-provoking piece Ceasefire Magazine's Ashok Kumar outlines a clear and consistent, yet barely noticed, pattern of the Games being used to fundamentally restructure the host City to the purposeful exclusion of its working class and ethnic minority residents.
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