The Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign (PTUDC) have launched their
own web site. The PTUDC has been campaigning for the defence of trade
union rights in Pakistan for a number of years. Now the situation has
become even more complicated with the war against Afghanistan. The
PTUDC has condemned terrorism, but is also actively campaigning against
the war inside Pakistan itself. Thus they face the wrath of both the
state authorities and the Islamic fundamentalists. They need your help
in their campaigning work. You can help by publicising their material
and by going to http://www.marxist.com/wellred/ptudc.asp to make a financial contribution to their campaigning work.
Under the slogan “Only the class struggle can decisively defeat the madness of fundamentalist terrorism and imperialist barbarism”, about 150 trade union workers, students, PPP workers and women attended a meeting organised by the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign (www.ptudc.org) in Multan, Southern Punjab.
An anti-war meeting was held by the PTUDC in this highly industrialised
town. The topic was "The Present World Crisis and the role of the
Working Class". The majority of those attending were trade unionists
and political activists. Youth, students and women also participated.