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Activists have to pay the price for speaking the truth
I take pride in having fought against four military dictatorships. I participated in the students’ demonstrations against Gen Ayub in 1968-69. During Gen Yahya’s martial law, I joined protests and strongly condemned the military operation in (...)
With the revival of Pakistan’s feminist movement, Memon recovers one of the country’s less-appreciated women-led organizations—one rooted in the peasantry, not the urban middle-class.
The Sindhiyani Tehreek (ST) was a women-led political organization formed by rural women in Pakistan’s southern (...)
Haqooq-e-Khalq (People’s Rights) Movement (HKM) is a Pakistan-wide campaign for the enforcement of the fundamental rights in our constitution through grassroots organizing, momentum and pressure.
As we build a new International to respond to the global crises confronted by humanity, it is (...)
The task today is not to provide abstract slogans but to intimately attach ourselves to the unfolding of the class struggle, and reconstruct our horizons based on concrete social upheavals. It is only from within the space of these struggles that we can trace the hopes, courage and creativity (...)
In conversation with Tariq Ali, an activist, a filmmaker and a novelist
Tariq Ali is a name to reckon with. He’s been a student leader, an activist, a journalist, a novelist, a filmmaker and a polemicist. At 76, Tariq Ali remains one of the most charismatic leaders. His championship of (...)
After student mobilizations throughout the country, Pakistani left-wing figures – including Ammar Ali Jan, Farooq Tariq and Alamgir Wazir – were charged with “subversion”.
On 29 November 2019, at the initiative of the Student Action Committee (SAC), “Solidarity Marches” were organized in more than (...)
LAHORE: The recently-held Student Solidarity March, which led to the state levelling sedition charges against its organisers and some prominent participants, was not just a simple march as its title denotes. Despite the fact that it was spearheaded by students and left-leaning youths, including (...)
Daily Jeddojehad (Urdu) online launched as a progressive platform of socialists. A socialist alternative cannot be built without an alternative socialist media. These views were expressed by speakers at the launching of “Daily Jeddojehad Online”.
Addressing the ceremony, Farooq Sulehria, editor (...)
Lahore (press release)
Lahore Left Front (LLF) held a meeting at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) to discuss issues of national importance and take decisions on LLF’s response on these matters. The meeting was chaired by Rashed Rehman and attended by representative of Left (...)
Jalib Awami Mela was held on 31st March 2019 at Open Air Theatre, Bagh-e-Jinnah Lahore on the eve of 91st birthday of famous revolutionary poet Habib Jalib.
During the four sessions at the Mela starting at 2pm till 9pm, poets, singers, political & social activists and artists paid rich (...)
Aima Khosa remembers a stalwart of the 20th century communist movement.
Why do great men die and leave us lesser mortals to piece together the stories of their lives so that that the world can understand the significance of their beliefs and their struggles? Indeed, narrating someone’s life in (...)
For the first time, The Left in Pakistan has one Member of Parliament. Ali Wazeer belongs to Pakistan Trade Unions Defense Campaign, the group is a part of Left Democratic Front Pakistan. The LDF is not yet formally launched but various efforts are been made to unite the Left forces in (...)
The author only names, at the end of the article, the Awami Workers Party (AWP), without mentioning its three founding components : Workers Party Pakistan, Awami Party, Labour Party Pakistan. The author neither introduces The Struggle Group, while it is the only Left Party with one of its (...)
Ali Wazir, Moshin Dawar vow to heal wounds of war-weary people.
ISLAMABAD: The newly elected Members National Assembly (MNAs) from North and South Waziristan tribal districts have said that they would opt to remain independent in the parliament; however, they could extend issue-based support (...)
Ali Wazeer, a central committee member of The Struggle group, has won a seat in the national parliament with 23530 votes and his closest rival from religious alliance MMA got 7515. Thus winning the seat with a majority of 16015.
Ali Wazeer was one the main leader of Pashtun Tahafaz Movement (...)
The Intimidations, threats, and arrests before the Lahore historic public meeting in solidarity with Pashtuns.
On 22nd April, over 10,000 packed the historic Mochi Darwaza (Cobbler’s Gate) ground in Lahore to listen to leaders of Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement and Lahore Left Front. The (...)
LAHORE: In the wake of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement’s (PTM) resolve to stage a rally at Mochi Gate here on Sunday (today), police launched raids late on Saturday and arrested several leaders of the PTM, Awami Workers Party (AWP) and Pashtun students from a local hotel and Punjab University.
As (...)
The book under review, ‘People’s Movements in Pakistan’ by Aslam Khwaja is a groundbreaking piece of work on the non-violent struggles of Pakistan. Despite the fact that non-violence and democratic culture is deeply rooted in the Pakistani social fabric, the least amount of work has been done by (...)
The task of reviving the Left to once again become an effective player in the polity has been exercising minds in the surviving Left parties and groups for long but the achievement of this goal has proved difficult. It is therefore heartening to note the follow-up of the meeting of 10 Left (...)
The task of reviving the Left to once again become an effective player in the polity has been exercising minds in the surviving Left parties and groups for long but the achievement of this goal has proved difficult. It is therefore heartening to note the follow-up of the meeting of 10 Left (...)
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