Please Protest:  Interwood Furniture Company's brutal actions against trade union: Today, 23^rd May, few of the Interwood Furniture Company workers who are sacked from job due to unionization were gathering at some distance from the factory for going to the labour department...more

Swat, Military Operation and the rise of religious fundamentalism: (This is based on his talk at LPP National Committee meeting held in Toba Tek Singh on 8 May 2009; Farooq Ahmad hails from Murdan and is a long standing activist of LPP. He has played a pivotal role in building the labour and Left movement in the province. LPP has over 2000 members in the province dominated by religious fundamentalists)..... more

LPP May Day Statement : May Day 2009 in Pakistan is celebrated with a new upsurge in labour movement. There are daily demonstrations across Pakistan by various sectors of the working class on the issues of shorter working day, against contract labour and privatization..... more

Hoisting red flag amid green shadows,Peasant movement going from strength to strength:The historic and victorious lawyer's movement was a rainbow of various political colour. One could see all sorts of political trends trying to give their colors to lawyer's movement. There were greens like Jamaat-I Islami and Muslim League Nawaz, reds like Labour Party and National Workers Party... more

"Facing The Musharraf Dictatorship" written by Farooq Tariq at Lahore Press Club on 10 April, attended by over 250: Call for arrest of Musharraf  under high treason charges Accountability of all the military dictators must be ensured Farooq Tariq book "Facing The Musharraf Dictatorship" launched in Lahore...more

A government of their own: The Okara peasants movement sets new records of bravery.It was early 2007. Salim Jhakar came to Labour Party office along Nadeem Ashraf, a local union Mayer from Renalakhurd and vice president of Anjaman Mozareen Punjab...more

Over 2000 joined a rally in Lahore against Talbanisation and terrorism. The rally was organized by Citizens of Lahore, a loose platform of different social, political and trade unions organization. The rally started from General Post Office Chouck (GPO) and ended at Charing Cross on Mall Road.. more

LPP strikes at Nawaz Sharif factories‏: Today on 21 March, workers at Choudry Sugar Mills and Hamza Board at Gojra in district Toba Tek Singh, a complete strike was observed. Over 700 workers walked out of the two factories owned by Sharif family to demand for a minimum wage set...more

An Interview with Farooq Tariq ''Pakistan in Turmoil''                                                                     By RON JACOBS: Once again, the nation of Pakistan has found itself in what many commentators are calling a national crisis.  This time around, the civilian government of Asif Ali Zardari was forced to keep one of his party’s election promises—reinstating Chief Justice Chaudhury (who had been summarily dismissed by General Musharraf in 2007—a move which precipitated Muharraf’s downfall)...more 

Labour Party Pakistan activists arrested and beaten up: Police in Karachi arrested today on 12 March three activists of Labour Party. Dozens of lawyers and other political activists were also arrested. They were part of the long march which started today this morning from Karachi after police..more

Defending despotic decisions is problematic: The Pakistan People’s Party leadership has a problem on its hands. There are not many ways to defend the governor of Punjab’s 25 February 2009 ruling, which imposed a two-month suspension of the Punjab Assembly. While talking to Kamran Khan on channel Geo,.. more

''Target Pakistan'' America's next war has already started                                                                                                       By: Farooq Sulehria 17/09/08                                                                                                                                                                America's next war has already started. It is yet undeclared. However, it is not un-approved. 'Classified orders', according to New York Times (September 11), were passed by President Bush last July. And surprise of surprises! The target is not 'axis of evil'-fame Iran. It is most allied ally in 'war on terror': Pakistan...more

Labour Party leader died
Comrade Asim Akhund member national committee LPP and youth and cultural secretary died this afternoon on 2 September 2008 at Agha Khan Hospital...more

A dictator gone but not his policies      FarooqTariq:19/08/08                                                                                                              Thousands across Pakistan celebrated the humiliated departure of dictator Musharaf on... more

Challenges facing Correa ' s government and the new constituent assembly          Eric Toussaint Quito, October 2007 :Within less than a year Rafael Correa has won four election battles (the two rounds of the presidential elections at the end of 2006...more

Pakistan at Sixty                                                                                                                              Tariq Ali 17/10/07
London Reviiew of Books :Pakistan is best avoided in August, when the rains come and transform the plains into a huge steam bath. When I lived there we fled to the mountains...more

GLOBALISATION AND THE WORKING CLASS                                                                                                                                                     Roger Silverman 08/10/07 Revolutionary politics is the science of perspectives, as Trotsky put it. But in times of flux and instability, drawing up perspectives is not easy...more

Drop Pakistan Debt: There is no other way                                                                                                                                                        Farooq Tariq, 4/10/07 Campaign for the cancellation of third world debt, Pakistan (CATDM Pakistan) Debt is no longer a private affair because it now has a political dimension which concerns all people and all societies...more