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LAHORE, Oct 20: Awami Workers Party has demanded immediate release of its leader Baba Jan and 16 other political prisoners and stop harassment of progressive and nationalist activists in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Scores of farmers and other citizens on Tuesday September 27 rallied behind the call of the Awami Workers Party (AWP) to highlight their issues.
The rally started from the grain market and the participants, who were chanting slogans and carrying AWP’s flags, marched through city roads and reached Shahbaz Chowk, where a public meeting was held.
AWP Secretary-General Farooq Tariq said the citizens had been deprived of clean water due to shortage. The canal water supply was not feeding (…)

Today, with more and more information about what happened yesterday in Warsaw and in Poland in general, during the so-called "black protest", it is very clear that we had, in its different forms, one of the hugest mass protests in the post-1989 Poland.

On Sunday 2 October around a thousand people assembled opposite the Polish Embassy in Paris to denounce the proposed new abortion law.

President Obama has commuted the unjust prison sentences of hundreds of federal prisoners, mostly for nonviolent drug violations. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that he intends to take action to free prisoners in politically charged cases.

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (E?itim-SEN) have been removed from their positions in public higher education institutions permanently!

In less than four years, the Awami Workers Party (AWP) has emerged as Pakistan’s preeminent left-wing political force, reinvigorating the progressive political tradition after many years in the wilderness.

Dozens of men are still incarcerated in French prisons. Others who have been released are subject to restrictions on their freedom. The present government and the opposition in its entirety remain absolutely deaf, indeed very hostile, to the principle of an amnesty. Such an amnesty must include in its field of application those who are being tried and all the pre-trial proceedings that are underway.

The Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Mindanao and the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army (RPM-M/RPA) expressed strong condemnation to the tragic Davao City bombing on September 2, 2016 that claimed 14 lives and injured 67 individuals. We profoundly condole with the bereaved families of all those killed and injured.