Point to Ponder March 2024

Women’s Rights or Corporate rights? In the recent months the focus on women farmers remains a stream. A class analysis of rural women has put them in three categories: land owners, workers on family farms, and landless labor. The first category is no doubt the smallest category, but is representative of the powerful feudal base of the country, enjoying fruits …

Small and Landless Farmers Resist the Vicious Cycle of Imperialist Climate Crisis and State Negligence

In Pakistan, of the total 116 districts, 81 districts have been heavily impacted by the climate crises induced floods. Sindh has experienced many months of intense monsoon rainfall which was followed by river flooding leaving a very destructive impact on rural life; if the seven districts of Karachi are included than entire Sindh has suffered severely. Of the total 8.3 …

Statement on Climate Crisis in Pakistan

International League for Peoples Struggle – South Asia (ILPS-SA) Capitalist mode of production, its imperialist impositions for centuries is responsible for the Climate Climate Emergency and the “Monster Monsoon” in Pakistan is a terribly tragic manifestation. With extreme weather patterns happenings at a much higher frequency across the world millions face acute misery and suffering. According to Global Climate Risk …

NO MORE POLITICAL INTERVENTION!

Pakistan’s floods will not be solved by more US military aid. The people need health and infrastructure support but NOT MORE POLITICAL INTERVENTION! “Counter Attack!” is an initiative of the Resist US-Led War Movement. With the US war machine dishing out its propaganda attacks to make itself look like the defender of democracy in the conflict over Ukraine, we will …

From Economic Crisis to Climate Crisis

Press Release | August 30, 2022 Pakistan has been among the top 10 countries most affected by climate crisis for the past several years. This climate crisis is not natural but the result of the fossil-fuel based capitalist production system, a system driven by imperialist imposition of domination. In the past few years, the devastation and suffering of the people …

Climate-Emergency Catastrophe: Small and Landless Farmers and their Families most Impacted!

All through August 2022, various districts in Sindh and Punjab have been heavily affected by the very long monsoon season marked with lashing rain of high intensity. The monsoon rains started in July, and with Balochistan and then Karachi being the first to be impacted, flash floods, rushing water from mountains, and constant rains have impacted millions of people in …