Dr Asim Sajjad Akhtar MUCH has been made of the uncanny similarities between Pakistan’s ongoing Cricket World Cup campaign and the ultimately successful side captained by the current prime minister in 1992. Then too, the team had a pretty dismal start and Pakistani fans had given up on it halfway through the tournament. Cue Imran…
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AWP condemns Islamabad administration for not allowing WDF to hold educational programme
Press release The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has condemned the Islamabad administration for not allowing an indoor educative programme for women activists. Women Democratic Front had planned a two-day political school for its activists and booked a youth hostel hall. But the management of the Pakistan Youth Hostel informed the WDF organisers a day before…
Beyond Austerity: An Alternative Approach to Pakistan’s Economic Crisis
AWP Islamabad-Rawalpindi invites the public to a policy dialogue titled Beyond Austerity: Alternative Approach to Pakistan’s Economic Crisis on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, 4:30 pm at the National Press Club, Islamabad. Panelists include Akbar Zaidi, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, M. Ziauddin & Amber Rahim Shamsi
AWP Launches Campaign Website for 2018 General Elections
The Awami Workers Party has launched a new website — VoteForAWP.org — for its campaign for the upcoming 2018 general elections containing information about our 22 candidates, our election manifesto, party background, election updates and contact information. In early June, our main website, AwamiWorkersParty.org was arbitrarily blocked by several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Pakistan…
AWP condemns attack on news channel offices, disruption of newspaper distribution
KARACHI The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has condemned an armed attack on the offices of a private television channel, disruption of the distribution of Dawn, the most respected English newspaper of the country, and threats to journalists. In a joint statement, AWP senior vice-President Yousuf Masti Khan, general secretary Akhtar Hussain Advocate and spokesperson Farooq…
AWP rejects GB Order 2018 and demands autonomy to the disputed region
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…