Headline November 03, 2018/ '' ' HEROS! U K HIVES? ' ''

'' ' HEROS! U K HIVES? ' ''

WE HAD INTENSE ARGUMENTS and heated debates on Marxist theory, strategy and methodolology. But there were always-

But there were always entertaining moments as we enjoyed some of the most enchanting musical classics and discussed literature, art and culture.

The two languages in which Javed Iqbal was well versed were English and ''Pahari'', his mother tongue spoken in most areas of Pakistani administered Kashmir.

He was passionate and compassionate about the plight of the oppressed Kashmiri masses and their struggle for liberation.

He was born in Kashmir and often missed his home village Boha on the banks of Mangla Lake. After thorough discussions on the national question we developed its profound Marxist analysis and perspectives in the South Asian subcontinent.

Javed wrote innumerable articles on Kashmir's struggle against oppression........................   

IN THE SMALL hours of Sunday 14 October, comrade Javed Iqbal breathed his last at the relatively young age of 57, from stage 4 cancer in Birmingham.

FOR  42 - Yes! for forty-two of those years he had fought, he had fought for the cause of revolutionary socialism.

Javed joined revolutionary politics while still at school, at the tender age of 14, after discussions with comrade Pat Wall in Manchester. [Pat Wall was later elected to the British Parliament as a  revolutionary Marxist].

In 1981, Javed came to Amsterdam for participation in the founding congress of Pakistani Marxist  organisation. The struggle set up by Pakistani exiles during the vicious Zia dictatorship.

He remained committed to revolutionary socialism and loyal to the organisation through its most tumultuous and difficult times and endured long years of social and personal tribulations for espousing this cause.

Javed came to Pakistan in 1986, and worked clandestinely under the brutal repression of the bigoted military regime to help lay foundation of a revolutionary organisation inside Pakistan.

He suffered great hardships living in Lahore slum.

With meagre financial resources  he had to use depreciated transport to visit the towns and villages of Pakistan to spread  Marxist ideas and build a revolutionary nucleus.

He made little complaint about this even though for him these conditions for were all the more arduous, given that he was accustomed to the relatively decent infrastructure of Britain in the 1960s and 1970s [though he missed his pints of beer and other pleasures of British life]'.

Once other comrades arrived in 1987, the work picked up a momentum and a solid nucleus of a  Bolshevik organisation was created.

Javed was forced to return to Britain due to unavoidable family obligations in 1991, but his dedication to Marxism never ever wavered. He collected finances and organised solidarity campaigns for the struggles of youth and workers in Pakistan.

Javed was elected organiser of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign [PTUDC] in Britain, and attended the British trade union conferences to participate in the British labour movement. Javed- rejoined and was active in the Labour Party after the victory of left wing MP Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.

He organised several PTUDC public meetings for visiting Pakistani comrades and protest rallies to gather support for class struggle in Pakistan.

He accomplished his great task with dedication and passion. Javed was deeply vexed by the tragedy and trauma of the Indian subcontinent's bloodied partition of 1947.

On its 70th anniversary he organised a public meeting in Birmingham in June 2017 with comrades from Pakistan and India as the main speakers.

They explained in detail the concealed causes and ramifications of this Partition's gory cleavage of this ancient civilisation and why its wounds were still festering, pulversing the region.

Javed regularly wrote and edited articles for the  Asian Marxist Review. One of his most innovative articles was on the 1946 sailors revolt and the massive revolutionary upsurge in the Indian subcontinent : ''The Great Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946.

In 1988 he has also also co-authored a book titled : Pakistan : ''Socialist Revolution or a Bloody Conflagration.'' 

His tragic demise has saddened his family, friends and comrades; but his memories will live on forever with them. Javed's struggles shall not go in vain.

He shall live on -not only in our memories, but will also inspire the living struggle of the down-trodden, the hopeless and the helpless. Just as he will inspire the living struggle for  socialist revolution that shall be fought to very finish.

With most respectful dedication to the Kashmiri people, great Kashmiri Students, Professors and Teachers of the world and then the Students, Professors and Teachers of the world, and  author ' The Editor of Asian Marxist Review, Lal Khan.

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''' Vain & Very '''

Good Night and God Bless

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