Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) is the Pakistani section of the Committee for a Workers' International

Committee for a Workers' International

The Committee for a Workers' International is an international association of Trotskyist parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party , the Socialist Party the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist...

 (CWI).

Foundation

The Socialist Movement Pakistan was founded at a meeting on Saturday, 17 April 2004 in Lahore, the result of a fusion between the United Socialist Party (a sympathising section of the CWI) and the Marxist Workers' Tendency..

Elections

In 2005, there were 11 SMP members elected to local councils in Pakistan, 8 in Karachi and one each in Dadu, Shikarpur and Dir, winning over 15,000 votes.

SMP is planning on using the upcoming elections to agitate for the need for a new workers party, and are holding a conference of trade unionists on the issue in March, 2008.

Trade Unions

SMP members were in the leadership of the campaign to stop the privatisation of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited is the largest telecommunication company in Pakistan.The company provides telephony services nation-wide and is the backbone for country's telecommunication infrastructure despite arrival of a dozen other telecommunication comanies, including giants like...

 (PTCL).

SMP also founded the Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP), which had its founding conference in November 2005, with over 300 trade unions leaders and activists in attendance.