Ash Sarkar

Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar talking on a panel at The World Transformed 2017
Born 1992 (Age 26)
London
Nationality British
Alma mater University College London
Occupation Journalist, Academic

Ash Sarkar (born 1992[1]) is a British journalist, activist, and academic. Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media[2][3] and lectures in Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University.[2][3] She also teaches as part of a Masters in Film, Graphic Design and Propaganda at the Sandberg Instituut.[2][3]

Sarkar is a contributor to publications such as The Guardian[3] and The Independent.[4] She has also appeared as a guest on Question Time, Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Channel 4, Daily Politics, and Newsnight.[2]

Early life and education

As a child she went to a comprehensive school and then moved to a selective grammar school for sixth form education.[5] She gained undergradute and masters degrees from University College London.[6]

Political views

After an interview with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, in which Sarkar said: "I'm literally a communist!" after Morgan repeatedly insisted that she was a supporter of Barack Obama, she reiterated her beliefs in an interview with Teen Vogue; calling his mischaracterisation of her position "a deliberate attempt to discredit opposition to ruling-class interests."[7] She added in an interview with The Guardian: "I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. This is why I'm a Corbyn supporter. We have the opportunity for a socialism that says austerity is a deliberate political choice."[6] In the same interview she claimed that Morgan and the Good Morning Britain production team had "tacked hard toward the alt-right".[6]

She is a critic of both Donald Trump and Obama but has said that "I'm not going to be someone who's going to discredit [Obama's] legacy entirely."[7]

In the Brexit referendum she voted to remain inside the European Union.[6]

Personal life

Sarkar lives in North London and is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter.[2][6] She identifies as a Muslim.[5][8][6]

Family

Sarkar's great-great-aunt, Pritilata Waddedar, was a Bengali nationalist and an active participant in armed struggle against the British Empire in 1930s Bengal.[9] Her grandmother is a hospital carer.[5]

Her mother is a social worker[5] who was an anti-racist and trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s.[9][10] Sarkar's mother helped "organise marches after the murder of Altab Ali".[10]

Reception

The Times has described her as "Britain's loudest Corbynista",[5] and Dazed magazine said she is one of "the voices resetting the political agenda in the UK".[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Ash Sarkar on Twitter". Twitter. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sarkar, Ash - Rodgers, Coleridge & White". Rodgers, Coleridge & White. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Ash Sarkar". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Ash Sarkar". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Fisher, Lucy (4 June 2018). "Meet Ash Sarkar, Britain's loudest Corbynista". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 26 August 2018. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hogan, Michael (22 July 2018). "Interview: 'That's when I lost my temper': Ash Sarkar on her clash with Piers Morgan". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  7. 1 2 Diavolo, Lisa (2018-07-15). "Meet Ash Sarkar, the Communist Who Called Piers Morgan an "Idiot"". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  8. 1 2 Cafolla, Anna; Alemoru, Kemi (4 July 2018). "Meet the voices resetting the political agenda in the UK". Dazed. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  9. 1 2 Sarkar, Ash (5 February 2018). "My great-great-aunt was a terrorist: women's politics went beyond the vote". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  10. 1 2 Sarkar, Ash (21 August 2018). "This isn't just a culture war – we need a radical anti-fascist movement right now". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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