By News Desk The Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) is committed to becoming a genuine alternative force by uniting all Left-wing, progressive, secular and nationalist parties and groups and launching a country-wide struggle for bringing about change in the existing decadent system and building a socialist society. This was the gist of the speeches made by Federal President Yousuf Mustikhan, General …

Haqooq-e-Khalq Party presents a charter of demand including Rs40,000 minimum wage for labourers; it will field labourers as its candidates in the local government and general elections.

Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.

The mission is especially alarmed by the apparent surge in suicide cases in various parts of GB, particularly in district Ghizer. A large number of these victims comprise women and the mission has reason to believe that some cases of honour killings have been labelled suicide and thus ‘forgotten

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed baton charges and tear gas shelling. The same opposition workers who decried state repression then engaging in wanton destruction of public property — and burning trees for good measure! We have been here many times before. A few months ago, it …

It was only a politics of new horizons that matched the ambitions of revolutionaries of the twentieth century, coupled with a spiritual and intellectual reformation to create a man or woman who would fight for this new inclusive order, that this was necessary to address our dual economic and ecological crises.

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It has been a month since the so-called unity government came to power. It still seems to be labouring under the illusion that formulating a coherent programme to serve the needs of Pakistanis is rocket science. In fact, it is quite straightforward. For those in government that are committed to doing something substantial, I offer this …

We are faced with an intolerant generation that is self-righteous, hates dissent and wants everyone to think one way – which is their way. In short, we are reaping the fruits of the seeds we had sown ourselves in our classrooms and society at large. Today it is the misogynist, fascist Imran Khan, tomorrow it can be a right-wing extremist force which will use the same herd to its own advantage and ruin the already religiously intolerant and anti-women society.

The Right has hijacked the vision of a life beyond neoliberal globalization. It’s time for a new progressive internationalism, one that puts solidarity and justice over corporate profits.

The book covers one manifestation of authoritarianism as defined by the author and follows a set structure. There is a historical overview — in some instances beginning from the colonial era — consisting of key events which illustrate the issue.

Secret video recordings and their use against opponents By Hasan Mujtaba Probably reaching its height in the tug of war in Pakistani power politics, a demonstration of the vulgarity of state power was the secret video recording of intimate moments between Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto as husband and wife, in Islamabad, at the hands of the thuggish Intelligence …

By Ahmad Faruqui If ever there was a conspiracy to block the democratic process in Pakistan, it was carried out by Imran Khan and his party, not by the US. Just when it seemed that Imran Khan had stopped peddling a conspiracy theory which held the US accountable for his ouster on the 10th of April, he tweeted a clip …

News desk Was the Masjid-e-Nabwi incident an orchestrated event? This is what several people had asked at the time. Now it is being questioned whether the cases registered against the PTI leaders are the result of hurt religious sentiments or an organized campaign against the former ruling party. Social media users and human rights activists have widely condemned the two …

By Zeenat Hisam “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein THE Covid-19 pandemic, which destroyed the livelihoods of billions of workers, exposed the widening inequity in the world between the rich and poor as never before. An important lesson to emerge in the aftermath is the need for a “just transition into the future” and …

News desk On the occasion of the International Day of Workers (May Day), the Awami Workers Party (AWP) has called on workers, peasants, students as well as left-progressive forces across Pakistan to come together to build a genuine, popular movement of working people to challenge class, state, imperialist and patriarchal power in all its forms. AWP President Yusuf Masti Khan …