Its founders were students in the Netherlands who came into contact with the Committee for a Workers' International and were recruited to that body in 1980.

[1] The rest of The Struggle continued as a section of the International Marxist Tendency until Lal Khan was expelled in 2016 over differences on entryism inside PPP.

The new party's aims would include a break with multinational capital and imperialism, the end of feudalism, establishment of a democratic federal system and improving relations with neighbouring states.

[4] The LPP dissolved on 10 November 2012,[5] and Farooq Tariq was elected general secretary of the AWP.

Farooq Tariq alleged that the group was being "witch-hunted" in the party, and said that the party had been reluctant to work with farmers', workers' and democratic movements, or to campaign for the release of political prisoner Baba Jan, a leading AWP member.