Awami Workers Party (AWP) has rejected the recently imposed GB Order 2018 by Islamabad on Gilgit-Baltistan and considers it a move to strengthen its grip on the region and perpetuate the seventy-year colonial rule to usurp its natural resources. The party in its two-day Federal Executive Committee meeting held recently at its head offices at…
South Asian progressive activists discuss Marxism, labour movement’s history and Left’s unity
Saleha Athar CANADA: Progressive figures from South Asian Diaspora and Canada paid tributes to Karl Marx, the greatest thinker, social scientist and discussed the history and achievements of his ideology and challenges in today’s world. The event was organized to celebrate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx as well as International Labour Day on May…
AWP pays homage to Marx on his 200th birth anniversary
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Hunger, inequality rising with the emergence of new ‘era of globalisation’, says Dr Asim
SUKKUR: New rhetorical arguments are made today to justify the hegemonic capitalist development in the face of rising poverty, inequality and conflicts. Despite the rhetoric about a ‘new era of globalisation’ after the end of the Cold War, the global capitalist order is at least 500 years old, its origin is dating back to the European…
‘The future of world under the influence of globalization’
Since the late 1970s, the world’s economy and dominant nations have been marching to the tune of neoliberal globalization, whose impact and effects on average people’s livelihood and communities everywhere are generating great popular discontent, accompanied by a rising wave of nationalist and anti-elitist sentiments. But what exactly is driving globalization? And who really benefits…
Arrest, intimidation of AWP, PTM leaders condemned
KARACHI, April 21 (PR): The Awami Workers Party (AWP) federal general secretary Akhtar Hussain Advocate has condemned the detention of party central President Fanoos Gujjar, deputy general-secretary Ismat Shajehan and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leaders Ali Wazir, Bilal Mandokhel and others by the Punjab police. In response to the arrests of AWP and PTM leadership,…
AWP condemns US-led imperialist aggression against Syria
Islamabad, April 15, 2018 (PR): The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has condemned in the strongest possible words the missile strikes on Syria by the imperialist powers. The party termed it unjustified and an act of aggression that will escalate conflicts in the region and calls for an immediate halt to US-led attacks on Syria and…
AWP supports movements against state repression, enforced disappearances, economic exploitation
LAHORE, April 9, 2018: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) reiterates its support to people’s movements for their fundamentals rights and against the retrogressive and exploitative state policies. Pakistan’s ruling class parties and the establishment will no longer be able to protect the outdated crumbling political and economic system or hide their contradictions. The so-called ‘revolutionaries’, and…
AWP expresses concern over SC verdict, calls for continuity of democratic process
KARACHI, (Feb 22): The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has expressed deep concern over the recent verdict of the Supreme Court debarring the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from heading his party but also declaring all acts done, orders passed or steps taken by him since his disqualification on 28th, July 2017, null and void. The…
AWP supports long march of Swat people
Islamabad (Feb 19): The Awami Workers Party expresses solidarity with the people of Khwaza Khela, Swat, who have come out in protest against the humiliating and often violent treatment meted out to them by security forces at check-posts in the region. In a joint press statement, AWP Deputy Secretary Ismat Shahjahan and AWP-Pakhtunkhwa President Shahab…