Pakistan socialist speaks
CANBERRA — Farooq Tariq, secretary of the Labour Party of Pakistan, was the guest speaker at a Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly public meeting, "The struggle for people's democracy and nationhood in South Asia", on January 14.
Farooq discussed the social and political conditions in which the Labor Party has developed and which have allowed it to grow to become the main left force in Pakistan workers' and peasants' struggles.
Ravi Chandra, representing Friends of Peace in Sri Lanka, spoke on the struggle for Tamil national self-determination.