Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has left a legacy of solidarity amongst the dispossessed and between the poorer nations. His commitment to the ideals of social justice, equality and democracy paved a way for the Bolivarian Revolution that has solidified relationships between the Latin American countries without the mediation and meddling of the imperialist United States […]
We the members of the committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians (CPPC) are shocked and grieved at the assassination of Bashir Ahmed Bilour, veteran leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) of Pakistan, and a senior minister of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday December 22, 2012 by means of suicide bombing in Peshawar.
The Committee of Progressive Pakistanis of Canada welcomes the announcement of the merger of three left and democratic parties, namely the Awami Party, Labour Party and Workers Party, into the unified Awami Workers Party (People and Workers Party) of Pakistan. We live in a world beset by capitalist and imperialist domination, unending wars, growing poverty and inequality […]
The Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians (CPPC) is alarmed at the findings of a survey commissioned jointly by the Association for Canadian Studies, Montreal, and the Race Relations Foundation, Toronto. The results of the poll reported by the media, including The Ottawa Citizen and The Vancouver Sun on March 21, 2012 disclose that “more than […]
THIS EVENT IS OVER SAADIA TOOR Associate Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Author of The State of Islam, Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan Speaks in Canada: Thursday, January 19 – 7:00-9:00 PM Sanford Fleming Room 1101, University of Toronto St. George Campus (10 King’s College Circle) Saturday, January 21 – […]
Rauf Malik, Surkh Parcham,, March/April, 2011 issue. Translated from Urdu by Prof. Hassan N. Gardezi This year Faiz would have been 100 years old were he still alive. Much is being written regarding his literary skills, poetic genius and social thoughts on this centenary of his birth, and more will be written in the future. […]
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Pakistan Left parties will organize demonstration at Charing Cross Mall Road in Lahore on 10th April at 4:00 p.m. This is solidarity with the demonstrations on the same day in US and other countries to condemn the ongoing war on terror. Below is the joint statement: Pakistan Left parties statement on 10 years of “War On Terror”
The world has wisely intervened in Libya to stop a tyrant from killing his own people” wrote Haroon Siddiqui in his op-ed piece in the Star on March 24. That the governments of half-a-dozen or so powerful western countries – who all have contributed to massive killings directly and indirectly – have bullied the UN […]
The ‘Blasphemy Law’ and the politics of violence and intolerance in Pakistan Speaker: Hina Jilani One of the most prominent lawyers, social activists and defenders of human rights in Pakistan, Ms. Jilani served as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders from 2000 – 2008. She will speak on the origins […]
