Lal Khan

Template:New unreviewed article Lal Khan is

internationally renowned political activist and Trotskyist political theorist . He is the leading figure and main theorist in international Marxist Tendency (IMT) along with Alan Woods. In response to the United States-backed coup attempt of 2002 in Venezuela, he was an important figure in founding the Hands Off Venezuela campaign.

In 1970s he was a student of medicine and political activist in pakistan when the military coup of General Zia ul Haq toppled the PPP government and subsequently hanged the country's first democratically elected prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. In the aftermaths of this tragic event, many PPP workers and activists started a struggle against Genaral Zia's dictatorial regime. Many of them were persecuted, jailed, or exiled.

Lal khan was arrested in 1980 on the charges of leading a student wing which was involved in leading mass rallies against the General Zia's government. He was sentenced to one year in prison, fifteen lashes, and a 20,000 rupees fine. He was in prison for one year, and then he was released, then sent to university in the north in the Pakistan's capital Islamabad. He was there for four months, and then, due to his involvement in anti government political activities and the struggle for the overthrow of the dictatorship, He was sentenced to death, to be shot on sight. So he had to leave pakistan and came to exile in 1980. While he was exile he graduated from the University of Amsterdam, and then after that he had to stay in Netherlands for eight more years. This was the time when he came aquainted with Alan Woods, the Trotskyist political theorist in the British Labour Party. In 1990s he came back to his country and quit his profession as a doctor, and have been working full time ever since in revolutionary politics. Alan Woods and Lal khan are now close friends and heading the International Marxist tendency, an organization for the promotion of socialist ideas and for safeguarding the workers rights along the globe.

References

http://www.newyouth.com/archives/interviews/interview_with_lal_khan_from_pak.html http://www.marxist.com/hindustan-times-lal-khan-social-revolution.htm