UPCOMING EVENTS

Pakistan Institute Of Labour Education and Research
Invites you to participate in a lecture
on
Labour Rights in the Era of Global Capitalism
by
Lal Khan
Monday, 30th May 2011
3:00 PM
at PILER Centre
RSVP: Khadim Hussain: 0300-2426231 -021-36351145-7
Email:piler@cyber.net.pk

Profile of Dr. Lal Khan
Lal Khan is Editor of, Asian Marxist Review and International Secretary of Pakistan Trade Union Defense Campaign. He was also founder of paper Class Struggle.

Mr. Khan, a proponent of Marxist ideology, led many struggles against fundamentalism during 1970s and against the dictatorship of Zia-ul-Haq during 1980s when he was studying at the Nishtar Medical College Multan. He was arrested and tortured by the dictatorial regime of Zia on account of leading agitation against his despotic rule. He was forced to flee and settle in Holland where he continued his studies and remained an active member of the movement against Zia-ul-Haq.

To his credit are around 28 books which he has written from the Marxist perspective on wide ranging political and economic issues including his well known book Pakistan’s Other Story, The 1968-69 Revolution.