Fascism rises in Pakistan. Support the left!
Protester against the Sialkot atrocity. PTI in the sign refers to prime minister Imran Khan's party Left and human rights activists in Pakistan have taken to the streets to denounce a lynching by the Islamist extreme right. On 3 December Priyantha Kumara, a Sri Lankan Christian working as a factory manager in the Pakistani city of Sialkot was murdered and his body burned by a mob after he was accused of removing stickers from the fascist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party which included Quranic verses. Founded in 2015, TLP is an alarming development even in the decades-long context of the...