Why Workers Party is Formed?

     Responding to the demands of national, regional and international changes that have occurred in recent years, five progressive, leftist political parties, namely National Workers Party Pakistan, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party Pakistan (Communist Workers and Peasants Party), Peoples Rights Movement Pakistan (Peoples Resistance), Watan Dost Mazdoor Federation (Patriot Labour Federation) and Awami Mazdoor Anjuman (Peoples Labour Association), along with a number of other progressive democratic groups operating in the different regions of the Pakistan, anti-imperialist intellectuals, trade unionists and enlightened youth, after a series of meetings, discussions and debates have decided on 20-21 March 2010 to merge into a single political party called Workers Party Pakistan. This Party is a link in the chain of the national and international progressive movements. Its goals the establishment of a democratic order in which a particular class of elitist exploiters and their collaborators in the civil and military bureaucracy will not dominate the economy and politics of Pakistan.

     More than fifty years of independence, the political, social and economic structure of Pakistan remains unchanged. The feudal and tribal way of life with its evil social consequences remains virtually intact. The industry, trade and agriculture continue to be controlled and manipulated by compradore and monopoly capitalists, feudal lords and tribal sardars. This system is propped up and protected by the army and bureaucracy who in fact had enjoyed direct control of political power for long periods. In spite of possessing enormous potential in the shape of human and natural resources, Pakistan has continued to suffer backwardness and underdevelopment under the existing exploitative system and ruling classes. A society plagued by rampant corruption, nepotism and dishonesty at every level, coupled with chronic lawlessness, is the end product of this decrepit system.

     To keep this historically irrelevant system in place, successive governments have borrowed billions of dollars externally and internally, and used it not for economic and social development but to meet debt-interest payment on earlier debts, maintenance of the armed forces and the extravagant lifestyle of the rulers. Religious slogans are pressed into service to counter the democratic struggle of the people; as a result our country is being gradually over-run by militant religious fundamentalist and sectarian forces and all sorts of armed groups. Law and order and peace in the country have become hostage to these forces.

     Pakistan's political system has been so designed that tens of millions of peasants, workers, intelligentsia, educated youth, small traders, doctors, lawyers, teachers and artists remain robbed of their democratic right of representation. Elected assemblies have virtually been reduced to talk-shops and clubs of the dominant classes. These elite classes have kept the people divided on ethnic, sectarian and linguistic lines, in order to weaken the peoples resistance against this exploitative structure.

     In this situation, the present political, social and economic structure demands radical changes. The dominant classes who have patronised this system will not bring about these changes. It is for the purpose of uniting different sections of the people and mobilising them on a single political platform for the struggle to bring about these structural changes, that the National Workers Party has been formed.