Sharifistani Labour Party
The Sharifistani Labour Party is a left-wing, moderate Islamist party in Sharifistan.
Sharifistani Labour Party Sharifistan İşçi Partisi (Turkish), د شریفستان د کارګر ګوند (Pashto),حزب العمال للشريفستاني (Arabic) | |
|---|---|
| Emir | Ahmed Ali Yilmaz |
| Grand Mufti | Ali Ibn Muhammad Khan |
| Newspaper | Al-Kanun |
| Student wing | Adalet için Öğrenciler |
| Youth wing | Futtuwah-nin-İşçi |
| Women's wing | Aisha'nın kardeşliği ("Sisterhood of Aisha") |
| Emek için Müslümanlar | Muslim wing |
| Vaftizci Yahya Kardeşliği ("Brotherhood of John the Baptist") | Christian Wing |
| LGBT İçin Adalet | LGBT Wing |
| Membership (2020) | 105 million |
| Ideology | Pan-Islamism, constitutional monarchism, trade unionism, anti-imperialism, Islamic modernism, trade unionism, Islamic economics, religious tolerance, multiculturalism, left-wing nationalism and social democracy |
| Political position | Left wing |
| Religion | Mevlevi Sufi Islam |
| National affiliation | Adalet Için İttifak ("Alliance for Justice") |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| Slogan | "Patronların peşine düşmeyin, yalanlarını dinleme. Biz zavallı halkın hiç şansı yok, örgütlemedikçe" ("Don't scab for the bosses, don't listen to their lies, us poor folks haven't got a chance, unless we organise") |
| Anthem | Which Side Are You On? |
| seats in the upper house | 100/400 |
| seats in the lower house | 300/400 |
| Party flag | |
| File:The Red Flag | |
| Website | |
| İşçiPartisi.Org.Sha | |
policies
Replacing imprisonment with rehabilitation for all drugs except cocaine.
Reserving a percentage of places at universities for women, a percentage for people from working-class backgrounds and a percentage for Romani Travellers.
Outlawing concubinage whilst retaining the ban on mutah.
A crackdown on bootlegging.
Requiring all Qadis (judges), cabinet ministers, civil servants, military officers, soldiers and police personnel to swear an oath to uphold the Book of Justice.
Encouraging polygyny in order to ensure that war widows can have husbands.
A crackdown on loan-sharking and discrimination against union members.
Raising the age of consent for unmarried persons to seventeen years and four months regardless of religion.
The establishment of a Sharifistani Court of International Law to try heads of state suspected of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
Increasing them minimum wage for married persons so that men can support their wives more easily.
Raising the pay of all ranks of the Army and of the lower ranks of the police.
Demanding that all private schools take 10% of their pupils from poor communities via scholarships.
Nationalising the Sharifistani School of Fencing with compensation.
Abolition of Grammar Schools.
Raising the pay of teachers in all state schools.
Repeal of the sumptuary laws.
Reintroduction of conscription but without deferments for education (except for medical courses).
Raising the pay of Imams and muezzin in government mosques.
Imposing a a minimum mahr for war widows at £6,000 (in money or in kind) to stop them from being exploited as they compete with other women.
Raising the age of consent for male homosexual relations to 18.
Base of support
The base of support of the Sharifistani Labour Party is working-class urban Sunni Muslims. Many of the Royal Sharifistani Army (especially those in Al-Saqoor) support the party. Shias are unlikely to support the party due to it's ban on mutah.
Allies
They are part of the Alliance for Justice along with the Islamic Liberty Party.