Ash Sarkar
Ashna Sarkar (born 1992) is a British journalist and libertarian communist political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Sarkar is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent.
Ashna Sarkar was born in London in 1992.[1][2][3] Her great-great-aunt, Pritilata Waddedar, was a Bengali nationalist who participated in armed struggle against the British Empire in 1930s Bengal.[4] 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,[4][6] helping to organise marches after the racially motivated murder of Altab Ali.[6]
She attended Enfield County School, an all-girls comprehensive school, before moving to the Latymer School, a selective grammar school for sixth form education.[5] She has two degrees from University College London.[7]
Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media[8] and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.[9] In 2017, she taught global politics at Anglia Ruskin University as an associate lecturer.[5]
She is a contributor to The Guardian[8] and The Independent.[5] She has been a panelist on BBC Question Time and Any Questions?.[10][11]
Sarkar appeared in the 2019 BBC documentary series Rise of the Nazis to "illuminate the context and perspective of Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933, who died in a concentration camp in 1944".[12]
