Sanghar, 28th December 2014 – On the call of the Awami Workers Party, hundreds of peasants, workers, students and political workers marched through the streets of Sanghar city on Sunday in protest against the deplorable state of social services in the district and the daily oppression of landlords and state institutions, calling for the replacement of feudalism and capitalism by a pro-people socialist system. The colorful rally featured a sea of red flags and vociferous slogans and carried on for almost two hours. Addressing the participants of the rally at its conclusion in front of Sanghar Press Club, AWP secretary Bakhshal Thalho, AWP Punjab president Aasim Sajjad, Hasan Askari, Faiz Keerio Khalil balouch ,mir Hassan mari ,baksh mangrio and others said that despite the incessant rhetoric of ‘change’ in mainstream politics, the real problems of working classes are completely absent from the media-controlled debate. Pakistan is one of the most class-divided societies in the world and the parties in government as well as those who seek power are dominated by feudals and capitalists and it is therefore out of the question that they will ever challenge the system of which they are beneficiaries. Only a genuine party of the working classes such as the AWP can be the harbingner of genuine change in the political order and society in general. The AWP leaders demanded that the local administration immediately address the despicable state of public schools and hospitals and also regulate the profiteering of mandi merchants and the local bureaucracy. They denounced the mainstream parties accession to the setting up of military courts noting that the rot in the judicial system at the local level – and the thana katcheri culture in particular – needs to be meaningfully addressed rather than completely forsaking civilian institutions and handing over authority to the military. The speakers also spoke against the killing and dumping of political workers in Sindh, as well as the establishment-sponsored terrorist violence and narrow-mindedness that is spreading into all areas of the country. They said that only when religion is completely separated from politics will there be e let-up in the politics of hate because both the establishment and the militant right-wing employ violence in the name of religion, while secular parties continue to be dismissed as enemies of the ‘ideology of Pakistan’.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:18:40 +0000
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