on the IQBAL DAY

The new left Party ...some stray thoughts

There r too many false claims and as usual contradictory things in this document. i read it and will soon send my views. The program is as usual inspired from Congress thesis, anti Punjab sentiments and Cold war justifications. When our left will able to revisit her faults? If today left is nowhere, neither in student, peasant unions nor in labor unions then who is responsible for that? Putting all the blames on imperialism and state authoritarianism is an old fashion and no one can fool people with such claims. We are happy as due to this venture we have a new space within left where we can generate the debate. But the program is as usual...new liquor in old bottle. If we can find new ways, Newline, new thinking it will be good otherwise we will still moving in circles.

i will write soon. Yet u can smell it in my comments too. The writer still using cold war claims for example 1- write is still sporting Russian military intervention in Afghanistan. 2- Then when writer is giving examples of sporting military interventions by popular political parties like PPP or PML Nawaz then he should accept that it was left too who from pinidi conspiracy till omar asghar launching had such people among them. 3- If they r using imperialism so in present context are countries like Russia and china r too includes in it? In cold war we were not include them as u knew. 4- calling nationalists as racist in general is a bad taste as written in the document 5- writer accept that in past left did some faults but he did not give any example nor write any detail just passing remarks. If u r ready to criticize popular political parties then u have courage to talk about yourselves too. This r some stray thoughts yet will write in detail soon

aamir riaz