Pakistan: Death to the bosses, long live the working class!

PAKISTAN, November 1—Pakistan has long been used by the bosses to serve imperialist interests, and today it is suffering from the crisis of capitalism. But, we are involved in struggles with workers. We use  chants like “Down with imperialism…Down with fascism” and “Struggle united to win the revolution.” We need to organize people around our communist line if we want to get rid of all these evils of capitalism.

Capitalist roots
Soon after its inception in 1947 the British colonialists and their local puppets started to lead Pakistan towards capitalism. The Pakistani state always stood firm with capitalist countries in their fight against the USSR.  At the time, socialism was being discussed everywhere and the most super exploited members of our class were excited to join different progressive unions and political parties.

The bosses, however, chalked out a plan to counter this with religious propaganda, saying that socialism is against our faith and socialists are agents of India. Bosses started a crackdown against progressive entities; they put  political workers behind bars, killed and tortured hundreds of workers and banned  leftist political parties.  It pushed the country toward political instability, economic uncertainty, intolerance, illiteracy, poverty, sectarianism and fascism.

Now the ruling class here is under severe crises; fundamentalism which was used to bring people against each other has become a monster and uncontrollable by its masters. Society is badly divided into different sectarian and ethnic groups which are contentiously killing each other to spread fear all over the country. Bosses maintain political and economic instability in the country.

We are trying to keep workers informed that bosses are united to exploit the working class. Bosses fight with each other to get the right to exploit and make money, and they have no intentions for the betterment of their followers. Local bosses are puppets of imperialism; they are acting upon the instructions of the IMF, World Bank and other capitalist institutions. Now it is time to unite against exploitation and plundering.

Workers fight back
Now many have started to understand the  ruling class’s tactics, and are getting organized in a united struggle against high inflation, exploitation and intolerance. People’s Action Committees are being formed by the nationalist and progressive political workers in Pakistan to fill in the gaps which were created by the ruling class by dividing poor workers into different religious, ethnic, sectarian and communal groups to avoid a unified and cohesive struggle. We are trying to let workers know the exact economic, political and social situation.
People from all segments of society are actively participating in these strikes and sit-ins. People having different political, social and religious backgrounds are uniting against the imposition of unjustified taxes on their basic commodities, especially on electricity.

Companies make profits by extracting taxes from impoverished workers, forced to subsidize industrialists while facing a new tax every morning. Multinational companies are sending back their profits in dollars which is lowering the country’s foreign reserves.

‘Long live the working class’
We are involved in these strikes with our revolutionary line, our friends and comrades in different organizations are explaining the reasons why the working class is getting poorer. We are explaining that reforms are also used by the bosses to avoid revolution.

We used to chant slogans like “Reform or revolution….. Revolution, revolution” and  “Stop the plundering….long live poor working class.” We also clarify that we need an international communist struggle to get rid of exploitation, poverty, inequality, injustices and fundamentalism. We will win under the red flag of PLP. Long live communism.