National Sections of the L5I:

Pakistan

Pakistan: LQM mobilises tens of thousands for labour rights

Forward to a working class party in Pakistan! Read more...

Pakistan: Reactionary Right secures victory against transgender rights

In a landmark defeat for sexually oppressed people’s rights, the religious court of Pakistan has ruled that transgender people cannot change their gender at will. Read more...

Pakistan: Heading for a constitutional crisis?

The arrest, and then the release, of Imran Khan, former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf, PTI, party, underline the deep divisions within the country's ruling class and state in Read more...

Pakistan: Deaths at charity flour centres

In the last week, 12 people, three children and nine women, have died as they queued for flour at a Ramadan charity centre in Karachi. Read more...

Pakistan in the grip of economic crisis and the IMF

Pakistan is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in its history. Read more...

Pakistan: Not just a natural disaster, a capitalist catastrophe

For months now, Pakistan's people have suffered under one of the most severe floods ever recorded. Read more...

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In Pakistan, floods started in June and peaked in mid-August leaving almost 1500 people dead even according to official figures, which are likely to be an underestimation. Read more...

Floods in Pakistan: The effects of capitalist development

According to official estimates, the floods hitting Pakistan have already led to over 1000 deaths, the final figure is likely to be very much higher. Read more...

Pakistan: Political crisis continues

Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...

Pakistan: Capitalist crisis and the working class

Since Imran Khan lost a parliamentary vote of confidence and Shahbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) replaced him as prime minister, the political crisis wracking the country has taken even s Read more...

Pakistan: Imran Khan forced out – the political crisis continues

Imran Khan's time as prime minister ended in the last moments of Saturday, 9th April, after weeks of political crisis and a power struggle between his PTI-led government and the opposition. Read more...

Pakistan: Gwadar's struggle against capitalist "development"

The port city of Gwadar in Balochistan is the starting point for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, a key strategic link in Beijing's "Belt and Road Initiative". Read more...

Down with rape and torture! International solidarity with climate activists in Karachi!

The League for the Fifth International is deeply concerned over reports of the rape and torture of a climate activist on the night before the December 12 Climate March in Karachi. Read more...

Pakistan: Clerical fascism rears its ugly head again

The forces of clerical fascism, embodied by the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan, TLP, have asserted their growing strength with mass demonstrations across Pakistan. Read more...

We will not be Silenced: Solidarity with Pakistan's Women's Movement

In Pakistan, violence against women and rape cases doubled in the last six months of 2020, cases of child abuse even tripled. Read more...

Pakistan: Down with state repression! International solidarity with Kashmir!

As reports of the Pakistani state preparing a major police operation against Kashmiris pour in, the League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the people of Kashmir who went on strike on t Read more...

Pakistan: International solidarity with missing IMT member

The League for the Fifth International sends internationalist solidarity to the International Marxist Tendency whose member, Amar Fayaz, was whisked away by cops and armed men in plain clothes in the Read more...

Pakistan: No to cuts in education! Solidarity with student protests in Punjab!

The League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the students of Bahauddin Zakaria University, in Multan, and Islamia University, in Bahawalpur, who have been protesting against threats to t Read more...

Pakistan: Justice for Hayat Baloch and all other victims of repression!

Solidarity with the day of action on August 22 Read more...

Pakistan: Find Amin Now! Internationalist solidarity with missing IMT comrade

We have received deeply concerning reports about the enforced disappearance of Muhammad Amin, a 26-year-old socialist activist and member of the International Marxist Tendency’s Pakistan section. Read more...

The attack on the Karachi stock exchange

On June 29, 10 people were killed in an attack on the Karachi Stock Exchange by four assailants who launched a bomb attack and then opened fire with guns. Read more...

Pakistan: Solidarity with Baloch movement for justice

Balochistan has witnessed mass upheavals throughout the province after what has become known as the Dannuk Incident. Read more...

Pakistan: From workers’ protests to workers’ revolt

Protests were held across Pakistan on Tuesday, May 19 under the auspices of the Workers' Solidarity Committee, WSC. The protesters included political activists, students and women. Read more...

Pakistan: Justice for Arif Wazir, Sajid Hussain! Find Shahab Rehmat now!

On May 1, news broke that the body of the missing Baloch journalist, Sajid Hussain, 39, had been recovered from a river in Sweden. Read more...

Coronavirus in Pakistan: Stop all non-essential work, grant paid leave to workers!

According to official data, six people have died in Pakistan while 878 have tested positive for coronavirus at the time of writing this report. Read more...

Pakistan: Solidarity with PTM leaders! Free Manzoor Pashteen!

The Pakistani state has unleashed its paranoia-filled authoritarianism once again with the arrest of the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement (PTM), Manzoor Pashteen, and others, on Jan Read more...

Pakistan: Internationalist solidarity with Women’s Democratic Front

The League for the Fifth International categorically condemns the seven-hour-long illegal detention of the Balochistan president of the Women’s Democratic Front, WDF, Jalila Haider. Read more...

Pakistan: Solidarity with Student March organisers

Turnout at the Student Solidarity March on Friday, November 29, was very impressive with demonstrations in 55 cities. Read more...

Pakistan: How to deal with the foot soldiers of campus censorship and violence?

Recently, a number of mainstream Pakistani leftist leaders have publicly shown an openness towards two mainstream right-wing Islamist forces. Read more...

Pakistan: Azadi March: “Civilian supremacy” and the contradictions of the ruling class

The Azadi march of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman that began from Karachi on October 27 is an expression of the inner contradictions of the bourgeoisie. Read more...

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