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, by HASAN Shazia
KARACHI: Prominent veteran social worker, trade unionist and founding member of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler) Karamat Ali, who passed away at a private hospital on Thursday morning after a protracted illness, was laid to rest at the Wadi-i-Hussain graveyard here (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Karamat Ali executive director Pakistan Institute of Education and Research (PIlER) was a tireless advocate of labour, working classes, women and other repressed communities. He died in the morning of 20th June 2024 at Karachi.
This is a big loss for the labour movement of Pakistan and South (…)
, by TAQI Mohammad
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 (…)
, by QARNI Awais
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 (…)
, by AWP
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 (…)
, by LPP (Lahore)
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 (…)
, by RSF (Pakistan)
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 (…)
, by Associated Press, Dawn (Pakistan), UMMAY Farwa
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 (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
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 (…)
, by MEMON Gohar Ali
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 (…)
, by JAN Ammar Ali, SPENCE Tabitha
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 (…)
, by ALI Zahid, JAN Ammar Ali
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 of (…)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad, ALI Tariq
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 (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
After the announcement of the sad death of comrade Lal Khan, the social media platforms flooded with the pictures, videos and posts of Dr Lal Khan and the inboxes of our pages and emails filled with condolence messages and tributes from around the globe. Here we are publishing some of these. We (…)
, by Fourth International
It was with great sorrow that we learned that our comrade Lal Khan was no more. His involvement, and that of The Struggle, with the Fourth International was recent and, for us, particularly precious. He helped to open up our movement even more than was already the case to rich, varied, (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Farooq Tariq has lost Yasrab Tanvir Gondal (Lal Khan) but not hope for a socialist Pakistan.
Yasrab Tanvir Gondal, popularly known as Lal Khan, was laid to rest on February 22 at his native village Bhaun, in Chakwal district. Like his eventful life, his funeral too became something of a (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
I was fortunate to meet Comrade Lal Khan in Lahore in November 2018, while The Struggle was holding its congress, against all odds. The situation was then particularly difficult, the TLP making itself known by blocking the roads after the Supreme Court declared Asia Bibi innocent . My friend (…)
, by QARNI Awais
Comrade Lal Khan born as Yasrab Tanvir Gondal in a family of soldiers. The only male child in the family with three sisters. In the patriarchal society like Pakistan, and that in a remote village of Bhaun, the only son is no less than a godsend and there were high hopes with him for the future (…)
, by Asian Marxist Review
Lal Khan, whose name needs no introduction in the revolutionary politics of not only Pakistan but world over, breathed his last today on 21st February at 7:00 PM in Lahore. He had been fighting cancer for the last one and a half year. He was 64.
Lal Khane was one of the founders of ‘The (…)
, by Dawn Staff Reporter
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 (…)
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