Internationalist Socialists (Pakistan) Website, the NSF and more

Ali Sajjad posted this on the Facebook Wall of the National Students Federation (NSF) last month: “International Socialists (Pak) website back online! Name changed slightly to www.worldtowinpk.net , now has a lot of new material and very soon some useful podcasts as well.“

We at TPM have been following the International Socialists for a bit and have an interview coming up with Riaz  Ahmed, a Karachi-based academic associated with the group.

You will also have noticed the National Students Federation mentioned above. Veterans and veteran followers of the Pakistani Left and student organizing will now the name from history, but it seems a lot of the burgeoning radical organizing, especially in the Punjab right now is happening as a revival of that vehicle, so to speak. We look forward to covering the phenomenon and will keep you posted on what we are learning. Please do send us your own experiences, input, and info on this. [You can follow the history of the student movement the NSF was part of back in the day, so to speak, on the Dr Sarwar blog Beena Sarwar manages--for example here--and in the work done by Nadeem Farooq Paracha at length here, and by way of definitions here. And, yeah, not everyone agrees with NFP all the time--heck, I doubt he agrees with him all the time, so please don't come back to us with comments like "how COULD you quote someone who..." Useful information, input, historical stories, etc. are welcome--and taken seriously.]

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