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The Asian Marxist Review (AMR) was launched in June 2002. The AMR website started working in June 2016.
Lahore, Pakistan
Joined August 2016
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Ruling classes of systems that have exhausted their historical role cannot act rationally.
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Speakers highlighted that women’s oppression cannot be separated from capitalist exploitation and patriarchal structures.
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Participants strongly condemned the arrests of Aurat March activists in Islamabad and demanded their immediate release.
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International Working Women’s Day was marked across Pakistan and Jammu Kashmir through seminars, meetings and discussions organised by student and labour activists. Thread 🧵
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Only through class solidarity among the oppressed and exploited of all nations, and struggle against the imperialist capitalist system that breeds wars, terrorism, poverty, and hunger, can lasting peace and far-reaching development and prosperity be secured.
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The crisis has become so grave that it cannot be cured without a revolutionary surgery.
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•We reject all forms of ethnic prejudice, hatred, and nationalist or state hostility between the peoples of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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• The ban on student unions must be lifted in practice—not merely rhetorically—to promote healthy political processes, democratic values, and intellectual debate.
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•Instead of spending enormous resources on wars and military operations, an emergency and comprehensive five- to ten-year development plan for the tribal areas (formerly FATA) should be launched under the supervision and control of local elected representatives.
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•Reactionary, dogmatic and unscientific material must be removed from educational curricula and the education system aligned with contemporary requirements.
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•All political and non-political organizations, institutions, and congregations that directly or indirectly promote religious extremism, fanaticism, and violence—and often serve as nurseries for armed terrorist groups—must lose official patronage.
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We demand the abandonment of imperialist neoliberal policies based on privatization, austerity, debt traps, and anti-worker laws. The state must assume responsibility for education, healthcare, housing, and employment as fundamental human rights through concrete economic planning
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Every form of capitalism in Pakistan, including the neoliberal model, has failed, leading to inflation, economic hardship, and shrinking access to dignified employment, education, and healthcare.
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•The objective social conditions underpinning religious fanaticism and terrorism—poverty, unemployment, despair, and alienation—must be addressed.
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This is a gigantic human tragedy arising both from state facilitation and abdication of responsibility. Unless these institutions are nationalized and integrated into a modern education system, fundamentalism and its associated violence cannot be eradicated.
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•Tens of thousands of madrassas across the country have become factories of fundamentalism, where destitute children from poor backgrounds are subjected to worst forms of abuse and used as raw material for terrorism.
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It is therefore the duty of workers, students, and progressive political activists across Pakistan, including Punjab, to extend solidarity and political support to the Afghan people’s struggle against this monster.
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•We believe the Taliban have nothing to do with Afghanistan’s security or sovereignty. They are a fanatical, fascistic, occupying force imposed upon the Afghan people by imperialism and represent the greatest threat to Afghanistan’s integrity.
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