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In the spring of 1987, I stood in the drawing room of Bilour House, Peshawar, talking to Jam Saqi. The secretary general of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP), Professor Jamal Naqvi, stood by. Saqi was a member of the CPP’s Central Committee and an Amnesty International-designated ‘Prisoner of (...)
April 13th, 2017 is a day of historical tragedy. Even today, the scenes of brutality and a horror chill-down the-spine. There was pain in every heart and every mother’s eye was tearful. The entire society was ashamed to see the helplessness of a father. Mashal Khan’s father, Iqbal Lala became an (...)
Lahore, March 13, 2022: Awami Workers Party elected a new federal leadership in its two-day third Congress in Lahore. The party elected Yousuf Musti Khan as President and Bakhshal Thalho as general Secretary for a two year term.
Apart from them, Akhtar Hussain Advocate was elected as Senior (...)
Labour Party Lahore Committee met here today in Lahore to elect its office bearers. Ammar Ali Jan was unanimously elected as general secretary of LPP Lahore.
The LPP Lahore Committee was elected last week in Lahore LPP Congress and they decided to elect their representative today after a (...)
Amid the raging new wave of Corona infections, calamitous economic conditions, poor and broken infrastructure of the country where people travel at life risk, the Marxists in Pakistan travelled from far-flung areas of the country to attend the three days, “Summer Marxist School”, held in the city (...)
He passed away in Lahore at the age of 90.
Journalist and human rights advocate Ibn Abdur Rehman, known as I.A. Rehman, passed away in Lahore at the age of 90 on Monday morning.
Several journalists and other public figures took to Twitter to remember the human rights defender, who was also a (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
LAHORE: A breakaway group, which abandoned the Awami Workers Party (AWP) a couple of months ago, has made public the internal party differences, accusing the AWP leadership of manipulation to grab the party offices, keeping a parallel but secret organisation and opposing the support to that (...)
ESSF already published, 5 January 2020, the article by Farooq Tariq and former comrades of LPP on their experience within the Awami Workers Party (AWP). We add today a introduction by Pierre Rousset presenting some of the relevant background to this important chapter of the history of the (...)
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 (...)
The Awami Workers party (AWP) condemns in the strongest words the registration of sedition case against student leaders, academics and others for participating in a peaceful march for their genuine demands.
The move is provocative, ludicrous and violation of the fundamental right to freedom of (...)
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 (...)
We publish below a selection of reports and statements on the split in Pakistan’s Awami Workers Party (AWP)
Fissures in the Awami Workers Party (AWP) by Daily Dawn staff reporter, 3 October 2019 LAHORE: Fissures appear among the Awami Workers Party (AWP) as one of its components, the Labour (...)
The Awami Workers Party is deeply saddened at the passing away of Biyyathil Mohyuddin Kutty, one of the great comrades, a committed worker of the socialist movement, a campaigner of peace in South Asia and a humanist.
In a condolence message, the AWP President Yousuf Mustikhan, secretary (...)
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