Three progressive, leftist political parties, namely Pakistan National Party, Awami Jamhoori Party and Pakistan Socialist Party, along with a number of other progressive democratic groups, anti-imperialist intellectuals, trade unionists and enlightened youth, after a series of meetings, discussions and debates have decided in 1999 to merge into a single political party called National Workers Party.

This Party is a link in the chain of the national and international progressive movements. Its goals the establishment of a democratic order in which a particular class of elitist exploiters and their collaborators in the civil and military bureaucracy will not dominate the economy and politics of Pakistan.