The Struggle Pakistan

The Struggle (Urdu: طبقاتی جدوجہد) is a Trotskyist, Left-wing organization in Pakistan whose main theoretician was Lal Khan.

The seeds of the genuine Marxist politics was planted in 1980 in the Netherlands, when a number of leftist Pakistani activists who had fled Pakistan to escape Zia’s repression found themselves in Amsterdam in the cold November 1980.

[5] The Struggle group continued their activism in exile against military dictatorship in Pakistan and went on to organise a mass funeral for Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in front of the Pakistani embassy in Holland with nearly 500 participants.

The charged environment also saw participants throw stones at the embassy’s windows and Farooq was briefly arrested by Dutch police.

[3] The Struggle followed a strategy known as Entryism, a theory that small militant groups should join mainstream workers’ parties in order to pull them to the left.

Peter Taaffe, a prominent member of English section of the CWI advocated an “Open Turn”, implying the building of an independent organization and an end to “Entryism”.

A faction led by Adam Pal formed the Lal Salaam organization, arguing that The Struggle had become stagnant and out of touch with evolving political realities.

Lal Salaam asserted that the leadership had fallen into a routine, repeating outdated ideas and slogans that were no longer relevant to the current political landscape.

They point to the presence of right-wing elements in Ukraine, including the historical collaboration of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) with the Nazis, as evidence that the ISL is neglecting its anti-fascist values.

Furthermore, critics see the war as a US-led proxy conflict against Russia, and believe the ISL is unwittingly supporting a wider geopolitical struggle against China.

[25] It holds its regularly its congress which are held to analyse the performance of The Struggle and to formulate new strategies for social change and revolution.