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Ash Sarkar Biography
British journalist and political activist who is best recognized for having served as senior editor at Novara Media. She has written and published several pieces for The Guardian and The Independent which often contain anti-imperialist, feminist, and anti-fascist subjects.
She attended the University College London where she earned two degrees. She started gaining attention when she appeared on Piers Morgan and identified herself as a libertarian communist.
She is also known for her television appearances and appears as a broadcast journalist and commentator on several news programs and stations including Have I Got News For You, Question Time, and Good Morning Britain.
She was born and raised in London, England. Her great-great aunt is Pritilata Waddedar.
Other journalists and reporters also known for their appearances on the Good Morning Britain program include John Stapleton and Richard Madeley.
Sarkar grew up in North London and was raised by her mother. Sarkar’s great-great-aunt, Pritilata Waddedar, was a Bengali nationalist who participated in armed struggle against the British Empire in 1930s Bengal. Her grandmother is a hospital carer. Her mother is a social worker who was an anti-racist and trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to organise marches after the racially motivated murder of Altab Ali. Sarkar says that, as a child, her mother briefly met Mao Zedong while in Beijing.
Ash Sarkar (born 17 April 1992) is a British journalist and political activist currently serving as Senior Editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute. In 2017, she taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University as an associate lecturer. Ideologically, she identifies as a libertarian communist, a “long termist” who supported Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies.
In November 2017, responded positively to calls by a speaker at a World Transformed festival to “make the left hate again”, pointing to Philip May, husband of the then-Prime Minister, as a legitimate target. Sarkar declared: “I’m on Team Hate”.
Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2017, she taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University as an associate lecturer.
In September 2018, Sarkar attracted controversy by defending anti-Israel activist Ewa Jasiewicz, who had spraypainted “Free Gaza and Palestine” onto a wall of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In January 2018, Sarkar suggested to Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell that the British national anthem be changed to a “grime banger” such as “Wearing My Rolex”.
Although she only became a Labour Party member during the UK General Election campaign in late 2019, Sarkar (and Novara Media more generally) has become closely associated in media commentary with Jeremy Corbyn’s democratic socialist project: The Times has described her as “Britain’s loudest Corbynista”.
What's Ash Sarkar Net Worth 2024
Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
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