Today marks the 65th birthday celebration of Dr. Tanveer Gondal, well know by the name of Dr. Lal Khan, who died in Lahore, February last year after an extended fight with cellular breakdown in the lungs.
Dr. Lal Khan remains one of the most well known academicians in Marxist history of Pakistan. He was the primary notable student pioneer to raise the banner of protection from the tactical system of General Zia.
Due to his Marxist activism, Dr. Lal Khan went to Netherland in exile. He is also known for taking the ideology of Trotskyism to the ground in Pakistan’s Marxist politics.
He tried to organize genuine Marxist grant along with activism in the practice of Trotskyism, which has a past filled with delivering essayist and activists like Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens.
He also wrote some books on the struggles and questions of the subaltern and proletariat citizen of Pakistan and wrote hundreds of articles in domestic and foreign literary magazines so that the ideological questions along with the ground situation of Pakistan could stand in front of the world.
Khan had also called for revolutionary unity between the working class of India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir conflict and overthrow of capitalism in the subcontinent in a joint statement written along with CPI(M) Jammu and Kashmir general secretary Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami in late August 2016.
In this situation of Global Pandemic, many progressive organizations and civil societies of Pakistan remembered him by running online campaigns on the occasion of his birth anniversary.