The Soviet Union and Pakistan

The Cold War is over, the left is disappearing in the world. In Eastern Europe the socialist system collapsed and then the Soviet Union disintegrated. The transplantation of capitalism into the People's Republic of China accelerated. Pakistan, which has been in the grip of US imperialism since 1951, staged a drama of Afghan jihad to "teach a lesson" to the former Soviet Union shortly before the end of the Cold War on its soil. The far left began to take its last breaths. After the Geneva Accords on the United States and the former Soviet Union on the issue of Afghanistan, this fading left-wing politics began to fade away inside Pakistan, in which various left-wing political parties as well as the mainstream Pakistan People's Party fell victim. When Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto returned home in 1986, she began to erase her party's progressive identity. The journey of "reconciliation with socialism" began on April 10, 1986, when he rejected the American flag-burners at his reception. The feudal lords, including Yousuf Raza Gilani, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Farooq Leghari, were made the masters of decisive power. When the PPP formed the government in 1988, under this policy of "reconciliation" and escapism from socialism, key positions in the government, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ministries were nominated by their nominees. And in the same package, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan's imperial umbrella was accepted as his shadow. In this "journey of reconciliation" another government was formed and then it was disgraced and disbanded as before. Raising the banner of privatization from party socialism, feudalism was handed over from the opposition to the feudal lords. This journey of reconciliation with imperialism, feudalism, capitalism and the ruling classes was called the journey of democracy. Unfortunately, the party also went on this journey of reconciliation and its leader Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was also assassinated. And so both ideology and leadership disappeared from the party. And so did the left in the country. A large section of the left took refuge under the umbrellas of NGOs. And thus a large cadre of the left, which was producing "children of change" in the society from the womb of NGOs, perished at the hands of history. But a few people, including Abid Hassan Manto, Farooq Tariq, Lal Khan, Zahid Islam and others, did not surrender in this ideological struggle. Now when people call themselves socialists in Pakistan, people start looking at them with ridiculous eyes and saying, "Socialists still exist". Their ears can't believe it. Whenever Rakim declared himself to be a socialist, "Jaghadri intellectuals" would make fun of him. In a television program, a well-known Pakistani anchor introduced me, saying, "These are well-known liberal intellectuals." The liberal is US President George W. Bush who has turned Afghanistan and Iraq and the surrounding areas into hell. " The anchor stared at me in amazement.

 This remnant of Pakistan's socialist cadre is no longer worthy of acceptance even in non-religious parties like the Pakistan People's Party and the Awami National Party. But there were still only a few leaders, including the socialists above, who continued to struggle. These same people openly opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. They were seen raising their banner against American imperialism, feudalism, capitalism, privatization, "criminal", class injustice and fanaticism within the remnant socialist country. They are the ones who raised their voices against US imperialism in the first Gulf War of 1990 and then the second Gulf War in 2003. Refugees under the umbrella of NGOs failed to produce leftist "children of change", yes they did manage to raise money. In Pakistan, where fanatical politics is on the rise and capitalist democracy is being called a "human paradise", these socialist leaders and intellectuals are now taking a new leap. While the family of Pakistan's regular communist poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz celebrates his father's festival under the corporate sector, these mourners have lit small candles of struggle in unfavorable conditions in the corners of the country as well as their limited resources. According to him, Faiz Mela continued to be held continuously. The Faiz Aman Mela held on February 18, 2018 in Lahore was a successful demonstration of this continuity. This festival is in fact an organized and full gathering of this rising left against the class and exploitative system in Pakistan. These people are for the liberation of Pakistan from the class system, eradication of ignorance and illiteracy, eradication of fanaticism, liberation from the politics of feudalism and feudalism, liberation from capitalism and American imperialism, the rule of 95% real Pakistanis in the country. These lamps are now seen growing and spreading. In a country where marriages and divorces of popular political leaders, stories of their girlfriends, those who send or not send SMS, beauties who smuggle dollars become the subject of politics and journalism, the labor of the poor and its poverty, two and a half crore schools. The voices of those who make a name for themselves by fighting against the ignorance of children, exploitation of farmers, unemployment of youth and murderous fanatics are now increasing. Pakistan and exploitation can no longer go hand in hand. Fighting against exploitation, if these dustbins are raised then it will become Pakistan whose dream even the kiln workers and their children are unable to see. If the hereditary leaders living in the "islands of development" want to know the pain of poverty, then instead of struggling to say two words of sympathy for the poor, one day a farmer in a brick kiln, mill, factory or orchard. Try it out Then it will be known what is poverty, and what is the pain of the poor. The struggle begins, not sitting in front of a television camera, but shoulder to shoulder with the farmers of Okara's military farms. Pakistan is demanding a new politics. Inheritance, people's democracy instead of imperialist democracy, politics of paying full wages to workers instead of "investment benefits", politics of deprivation of farmer's daughter instead of stories of virgins. Politics of raising the flag of hungry naked people. Not the politics of wives, sons, daughters and families.