The new book by Ilyas Kashmiri, central secretary general of the Jammu Kashmir Peoples National Party (JKPNP), a progressive nationalist party active in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and a well-known political and ideological activist, “From Protest to Power: People’s Resistance” has been published by Pakistan’s renowned publisher Fiction House Publications.
The book discusses in detail popular movements, resistance born in the streets and neighbourhoods, struggles for rights, and political and intellectual theories.
The book “From Protest to Power: People’s Resistance” essentially offers an intellectual and practical framework for turning protest that is merely reactive into organised political and popular power.
The book’s main aim is to explain how oppressed classes and subjugated nations can avoid being limited to street protests alone, and how this popular power and resistance can be turned into political power and authority.
The book includes an important and detailed chapter specifically on the Baloch freedom movement and the national and popular struggle under way in Balochistan.
In the context of his socialist and progressive thought, Ilyas Kashmiri analyses the Baloch national question, the state’s oppressive behaviour and the shared national and political interests of the Baloch and Kashmiri peoples.
It discusses at length the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri and Baloch peoples and other oppressed nations of the region, human rights violations, and the future of popular movements against the dominant class and military system.
As a central leader of the Jammu Kashmir Peoples National Party (JKPNP), Ilyas Kashmiri is counted among the thinkers who support giving the movements in Kashmir and Balochistan an ideological and intellectual link.
The publication of this book by a well-known mainstream publishing house such as Fiction House is proof that writings on military domination, political usurpation and people’s rights movements in the region are now gaining significant recognition in academic and intellectual circles.
The book will prove not only a guiding light for political activists and students but also an important academic resource for analysts working on Kashmir and Balochistan.
For book lovers, this important work is available from Fiction House for 1,200 rupees.
