Pakistani Labor and Progressives; A Chronological History: مزدور اور ترقی پسند جدوجہد کی تاریخ

یہ صفحہ پاکستان اور برصغیر پاک و ہند میں محنت کش اور ترقی پسند جِدوجہد کی تاریخ کے چیدہ چیدہ واقعات، افکاراور احباب کے بارے میں معلومات مہیا کرتا ہے اوراُن پرعلمی مباحثے کرتا ہے۔ ہم تاریخ کو ایک ایسے معلم کی صورت دیکھتے ہیں جو علیم اور دانشمند تو ہے لیکن ساتھ ہی ساتھ غافلوں اور احمقوں کی تقدیر اور حالات سے بے پروا ہے۔ تاریخ کے معلم سے عموماََ وہی لوگ بڑا فائدہ حاصل کرتے ہیں جو نا صرف اس کا حقیقت پسندانہ مطالعہ کرتے ہیں بلکہ ماضی کے واقعات سے حاصل کیے ہوئے اسباق اور حکمت کی روشنی میں حال اور مستقبل کے لیے منصوبہ بندی کرتے ہیں۔ پاکستان اور برصغیر پاک وھند میں ترقی پسندی کی تاریخ اس ضمن میں ایک انتہائی دلچسپ اور فاضل لیکن اکثراوقات سخت گیرمعلم ہے۔  ملک اور خطے کے ترقی پسند محنت کش تحریکوں اور مزدوروں کی تاریخ سے کئی ایک بیش بہا سبق سیکھ سکتے ہیں ۔​

This page shares information, opinions and analyses about the major events, thoughts and people of the History of the Working People and Progressive Struggles in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. History is often an erudite and able teacher. It, however, is indifferent and unsympathetic to the plight of the imprudent and the negligent.  The ultimate and best beneficiaries of the knowledge of History are the ones who study it with a realistic disposition. Such students use historical knowledge for their present and future plans. The History of the Working People and Progressive Struggles in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a fruitful but tragic read. The Progressive of the region should read it in order to improve their future prospects and plan well today.

A CHRONOLOGY OF THE  HISTORY OF THE WORKING PEOPLE AND PROGRESSIVE STRUGGLES IN PAKISTAN

1947  There were 147 trade unions in Pakistan

March 6, 1948 Communist Party of Pakistan formed in Calcutta.

1948-58 The Pakistan Socialist Party.

1949 Awami League formed Azad Pakistan Party of Mian Iftikhar ud Din.

Jamat-I-Islami formed the Labor Welfare Committee Pakistan.

February 1949 Pakistan’s first tripartite labor conference was held. Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan inaugurated it.

1950 Democratic Women’s Association.

1951 Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.

1957 Maulana Bhashani’s Salaam Pakistan Speech at a
National Awami Party gathering.

Jamat-I-Islami affiliated  Labor Federation of Pakistan was formed.

1958 Kul Pakistan Kissan Association.

1958 National Student’s Federation (NSF) and Railway Workers union were banned.

Essential Services Act was passed. It was anti-labor.

June 1961  There were 691 Trade Unions in Pakistan.

December 9, 1967 Pakistan People’s Party’s  Manifesto issued

May 1, 1968 Mazdoor Kissan Party formed under Afzal Bangash and Sher Ali Bacha.

1969 Jamat-I-Islami affiliated National Labor Federation was formed.

Industrial Relation Ordinance is passed.

1970 Major Ishaque group merged with the Mazdoor Kissan Party
1970s Mazdoor Kissan Struggle in Hashtnagar Charsadda.
July 1971 Mandani battle of the Mazdoor Kissan party
1972 Labor Unrest in Karachi. Police kill workers
May 1973 First Congress of Mazdoor Kissan Party held in Shergarh, Mardan.

1979  Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto killed illegally.
Nov. 1980 The Struggle Group formed in Netherlands by leftist Pakistanies such as Farooq Tariq, Tanvir Gondal (Laal Khan), Muhammad Amjad and Ayub Goraya.

1980s Jam Saaqi Case.
February 1981 MRD started.
September 1981 Women’s Action Forum formed in Karachi.
1985 MKP merged with Wali Khan’s National Democratic Party to form ANP. Fatehyab Ali Khan did not join.
October 1986 Afzal Bangash died.
1988 All Pakistan Trade Union Federation.
1988 MKP split from ANP.
1989 MKP under Fatehyab Ali Khan.
1994 Pakistan Workers Confederation.
1995 Major Ishaque Fction merjed with the CPP to form Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party.  2002.The two split again .
1996 Mir Murtaza Bhutto martyred.
1997 Farooq Tariq and Comrades formed the Labor Party Pakistan

2004 Afzal Bangash faction splits from Fatheyab faction of MKP. It chose Aslam Khan Gigyanay as president
Communist Party Demostration against the Iraq War and US in Peshawar.

2010 Labor laws devolved to the Provinces under the 18th Amendment.

November 2012 Farooq Tariq’s Labour Party Pakistan, the Awami Party, and Workers Party merged to form the Awami Workers Party (AWP).

December 2015 Progressive Youth Alliance of the Struggle group was launched in Lahore.

2016 Laal Salaam Split form Struggle.

February 11, 2108 Veteran Rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away.

March 5, 2018 Veteran labor activist Jam Saqi passed away.

2018 Pakistan had ratified 33 ILO conventions.

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Miraj Muhammad Khan Addressing a gathering
Abid Hassan Manto
Abid Hassan Manto
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JA Rahim a leftist PPP founder
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Habib Jalib, a veteran Pakistani Leftist Poet