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International Socialists Pakistan

What we do.

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Interventions Popular Struggles Rights Campaigns Peace and Anti-war activity Working Class Fightbacks Struggles against the military regime Solidarity Actions ISPak publishes the Socialist Presence in four cities

Small or big, we are part of the movement, building it, organizing solidarity, raising arguments for a bigger movement

One Monthly, 65 leaflets, 125 books, some on sale at a stall outside

We need ideas in movement and movement in ideas

Where we stand…

Socialism, Not Capitalism  War, poverty, exploitation and oppression are products of the capitalist system  The alternative is socialism, a society based on workers collectively owning and controlling the wealth their labor creates.  We stand in the Marxist tradition

Where we stand…

Workers’ Power • Workers create society’s wealth, but have no control over its production and distribution.

• A socialist society can only be built when workers collectively take control of that wealth and democratically plan its production and distribution according to human needs instead of profit.

• The working class is the vast majority of society and is the key to the fight for socialism.

General Tires workers on strike outside factory

Sindh Teachers against ban on association

Where we stand…

REVOLUTION NOT REFORM • The structures of the present government grew up under capitalism and are designed to protect capitalist rule. The working class needs an entirely different kind of state--a democratic workers’ state based on councils of workers’ delegates.

The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela

Workers’ councils in venezuela

Chavez supporters

Where we stand…

Internationalism VS. Imperialism • Capitalism is an international system, so the struggle for socialism must be international, uniting workers of all countries.

• Socialists oppose imperialism--the division of the globe based on the subjugation of weaker nations by stronger ones.

• We support the self-determination of oppressed nations.

• We oppose all immigration controls.

Against Kalabagh Dam

Journalists demand emancipation of Sohail Qalandar

The radicalization of lawyers – a manifestation of capitalism’s inherent inequities