A new, essentially leftist political party is on the verge of being announced in Pakistan. Among its leading numbers is Zulficar Ali Bhutto Junior, the grandson of what is the country’s best -known leader in the middle Left.
He is expected to be joined by others who share his idealistic, Western-bending and politically untested views. But can such a party find success in a country where the story has not been friendly to the left – and in a vri of irony has also often turned to the extreme right?
At this point, of course, the world is on a lane on the right. US Donald Trump leads this group of right -wing leaders, but the same trend can be seen across Europe and Asia, including India.
There are leftist governments gathered in South America, and the middle left work party in Australia as well as those who share the same ideologies in other parts of the world that try their best to move against giving people more rights, a voice for their own and economic development.
Some, like Lula da Silva, who has made a comeback in Brazil, succeed to a limited extent. Others are doing less well or moving quickly at the front of their chosen path.
One question we need to ask and answer honestly is why the Left has failed consistently in Pakistan despite the urgent need for leftist policies dealing with the situation with landless peasants, peasants with small holdings, workers, women and so many other groups of deprived people.
We were to not face a situation where people in Lyari are struggling to get a tin water and others in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Live consistently uncertain life, as illustrated by recent floods that swept home and led to settlements built along riverbound. This should not be acceptable in the 21st century.
There are several reasons for the failure of Pakistan’s left side. PPP, who traveled as one essentially middle left party self-self one who also spoke with a loud voice of Pan-Islamism-was overtaken by those who broke away from the central principle of the founders who created this party that still survives, but without much called a leftist agenda.
However, it is still considered by many Pakistanis to place its roots further to the left than other groups. The last year’s most successful leftist party, Awami National Party, may have suffered from the literal killing of its top leadership, including members of the Bilour family and threats to other leaders making it impossible for them to organize competitions or meet constituents without the constant fear of death that comes through the door in the form of a bomb, a pistol or a suicide vest.
The right, and mainly TTP, has succeeded in reducing what was left by the leftist tradition centered in KP established by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his supporters. There are also other reasons why the Left has not risen.
The campaign against the left under Ayub Khan and then other dictatorships was one of the reasons for the collapse of larger leftist parties and also their publications, mainly seen in the 1950s. Prohibition was placed at the Communist Party in 1954. The Left was never recovered. Its newspapers, magazines and leaflets – some like progressive papers ltd that brought the Pakistan Times out and imroze – never made any kind of comeback.
We also see too much battle today between the leftist parties that still survive. Small differences over precise ideologies cut through the larger gap between the Chinese and Soviet ideals in these groups and keeping them apart. But the problem runs deeper than that. Left parties have failed to collect more than a smaller percentage of the national or provincial vote.
This is despite the considerable amount of work that some have done in specific areas, such as in KOT Lakhpat in Lahore. Of course, there are other examples.
The question of religion and misunderstandings about it may be one of the reasons why people do not vote for leftist groups. But the question is far more complicated than that. En virkelig karismatisk venstreorienteret leder som Burkina Fasos Thomas Sankara, Venezuelas Hugo Chavez, Vietnams Ho Chi Minh og andre er den slags ledere, der muligvis er i stand til at samle opdelte grupper og overbevise mennesker om, at deres fremtidige ligger i sociale og økonomiske opbygninger samt uddannelse og sundhedscare i et land, som stadig er en af de mindst uddannede i verden og hvor næsten 50% af børn er en uddannelse og er en Country station in a country that is still one of the least educated world and where a world and where almost 50% of children are supported by a country supported or wasted mainly due to poor health coverage and even worse intake of nutrients. This also affects their mental well -being.
We certainly do not want a country that continues to survive the way it does today. It is also a fact that change is possible and could get pretty quickly in a country that has a huge amount of youth and people with enormous potential. These people need vocational education along with Sounder Education and some help to start climbing out of poverty and the dandruff it holds. There is no romance in poverty despite its portrayal in classical fiction and other writing.
This is what every new party will have to persuade people about as it begins to aim at what seems impossible. The fact that Nepal and Sri Lanka have governments in the region with some leftist credentials should give some hope to Pakistan’s leaders of the Left.
But it is also true that they will have to find a way to get mass support and bring enough numbers to give them at least some voice in parliament and the provincial assemblies. This will take time, but it is a task that is definitely worth making an effort to achieve for all Pakistan people.
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The author is a freelance spokesman and former newspaper editor. She can be reached at: [email protected]
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