After many hesitations and delays, not least because of the brutal
assassination of Benazir Bhutto and hundreds of her supporters, the Pakistani
parliamentary elections are scheduled to go ahead on 18 February. These
elections are different to any other ever held in Pakistan. We have received an
appeal by three candidates who are sponsored by the Pakistan Trade Union
Defence Campaign and are
standing on a clear socialist program.
Two similar motions proposed by the comrades of Der Funke, the
Marxist tendency in the SPÖ and YS in Austria, have been supported by the
Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth of Austria and by the Regional
Executive Committee of the Socialdemocratic Party in Vorarlberg. This marks a
big step forward for the building of the PTUDC in Austria.
In this letter the activists of Communist Action League / Rank and File Tendency of Morocco condemn the recent attacks against Pakistani Marxist activists during the election
campaign by members of the fascist MQM movement.