{"id":10600,"date":"2016-06-22T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:11:30","slug":"okra-peasants-struggle-in-pakistan-and-the-awami-workers-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/okra-peasants-struggle-in-pakistan-and-the-awami-workers-party\/","title":{"rendered":"OKRA PEASANTS STRUGGLE IN PAKISTAN AND THE AWAMI WORKERS PARTY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following motion from the RISE Women’s Network will be will be put to the RISE National Forum on July 9th<\/p>\n

re Okra Peasants struggle in Pakistan and the AWP<\/strong><\/p>\n

We note<\/strong><\/p>\n

The brave struggle for land rights by the AMP (Tenants Association of Punjab) and the Okra Peasants Movement\u00a0This has been going in for 10 years. AMP and Okra Peasants are largely women who are Muslim, Christian and Secular.
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The Awami Workers Party has played a leading role in the struggle Farooq Tariq is the General Secretary of the AWP.\u00a0People have been arrested and killed whilst defending land rights. Youth leader of AWP, Baba Jan Hunzai is now in jail on trumped up \u201cterrorism\u201d charges. He is also standing in the election. AWP is growing in popularity all over Pakistan<\/p>\n

A conference was due to be held on June 9th in London about this struggle.<\/p>\n

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We Believe<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMP, the Okra Peasants should have their ancestral lands given to them without fear of harassment or violence from thugs and military police.<\/p>\n

Baba Jan Hunzai should be free<\/p>\n

The Pakistani government and police are abusing anti terrorism laws and using it to harass and arrest AWP leftists for standing up for poor communities<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We Resolve<\/strong><\/p>\n

To send a message of support to AWP, AMP, the Okra peasants and Baba Jan Hunzai.<\/p>\n

To connect with AWP, Farooq Tariq and to circulate information about the struggle and campaign for the release and election of Baba Jan Hunzai<\/p>\n

To ask RISE Scotland to support this campaign.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For more information see: https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/node\/61657<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following motion from the RISE Women’s Network will be will be put to the RISE National Forum on July 9th re Okra Peasants struggle in Pakistan and the AWP We note The brave struggle for land rights by the AMP (Tenants Association of Punjab) and the Okra Peasants Movement\u00a0This has been going in for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,1867,1854,1868,8840],"tags":[8909],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-capitalists-organise","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-the-left-crisis","category-against-imperialism","category-india-south-asia","tag-author-rise-womens-network"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2303,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17088,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/17088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}