Nationality Pakistani Name Lal Khan | Role Activist | |
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Alma mater Nishtar Medical CollegeVrije Universiteit Amsterdam Occupation Political theorist, activist, writer Website | ||
Education Quaid-i-Azam University | ||
Dr lal khan on ptv part 1
Lal Khan is a political activist and Marxist political theorist.
Contents
- Dr lal khan on ptv part 1
- Comrade lal khan addressing workers in karachi with q a
- Early life
- Career
- Publications
- References
He was a physician by profession but no longer practices medicine. He is the leader of the Pakistani Marxist organisation The Struggle, and editor of its newspaper. He also writes regular articles for Daily Times and the Dunya.
Comrade lal khan addressing workers in karachi with q a
Early life
In the 1970s, Khan was a student of medicine in college and a political activist in Pakistan when the military coup of General Zia ul Haq toppled the Pakistan Peoples Party government, and subsequently hanged the country's first democratically elected prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He was imprisoned for a year, then went to university in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. He moved to The Netherlands in 1980 to escape by fearing the death sentence in Pakistan. During his time in exile, he graduated from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and continued to reside in the Netherlands for eight more years. In the 1988, he returned to his country and quit his profession as a doctor, and has been working full-time in revolutionary politics ever since.
Career
He is the leading member of The Struggle which is based on the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky and advocates a socialist transformation of Pakistan. It demands the nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy under workers control, an end to religious extremism and radicalism, the eradication of unemployment and free accessible education for all Pakistani citizens. He is the Editor of Asian Marxist Review and International Secretary of Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign.
On 12–13 March 2011 the largest congress of The Struggle was held in Lahore. These annual congresses are held to analyse the performance of The Struggle and to formulate new strategies for social change and revolution.
In October 2013, Khan accused Malala Yousafzai's supporters in the West of appropriating her and concealing her socialist background.
In a joint statement in August 2016, Khan and CPI(M) Jammu and Kashmir general secretary Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami called for revolutionary unity between the working classes of India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir conflict and overthrow capitalism in the subcontinent.