Dear Maximiliano Arvelaiz,

Eric Toussaint has provided us your address to convey you some information.

Labour Party Pakistan National Committee meeting on 26-27 December 2009,held at Islamabad agreed to endorse the declaration for the fifth international. LPP leadership discussed in detail the different aspects of the declaration and found in agreement on the issues.

National Committee is the highest body of Labour Party Pakistan elected at the national congress every two years. The fifth LPP congress is taking place from 27-29 January 2010 at industrial city of Faisalabad. On 29^th january, an international conference of the workers and peasants is aiming to mobilise over 30,000 at a main political center used by Bhuttos and other main leaders in pakistan.

Labour Party Pakistan (www.laborpakistan.org) is a left wing socialist party formed in 1997 by several different trends of Left movement, trade unions and peasant organisations. It is the main Left party in Pakistan in terms of its membership and influence within social and class movements.

It prints regularly a weekly paper called Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (workers struggle) in Urdu language (www.jeddojuhd.com), the only regular weekly trade union based paper in the country.

It has helped developed different social movements including Pakistan Social Forum, whcih is part of World Social Forum.

LPP has supported the Bolivarian revolution from the begining and has hosted several speakers coming from different international friendly organisation on the importance of Venezuela socialist process including Jim Mclroy of Socialist Alliance Australia, Pierre Rousset of NPA France and so on.

We tried to come for the fifth international meeting of political parties through Socialist Alliance Australia who had forward our request to Venezuela Embassador in Sydney. Unfortunetly, we could not participate.

We would very much like to be part of the process and wil be happy to coordinate the whole work of Fifth Internati0onal in Pakistan.

Comradely,

Farooq Tariq
spokesperson
Labour Party Pakistan