In the last five months of the new PPP-led coalition
government the workers and the already impoverished masses have gone through
social and economic suffering yet unforeseen in the chequered history of
Pakistan. Under the rule of a rotten, corrupt and degenerate
bourgeoisie, Pakistan is now sliding towards the abyss of barbarism. The
victory of socialism is now the only solution for this crisis-stricken nation.
The Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF)
is a growing youth organization, based in Kashmir, with thousands of members.
It openly defends the ideas of the International Marxist Tendency and is
holding its 17th Convention in November.
To look at the Pakistan Army solely as the instrument of the
ruling class would mean ignoring the real contradictions that have developed
within it. On the one hand an important wing of the top military brass are now
involved directly in the economy, both the legal and the "black economy",
including drug running. There is another contradiction, which is that between
the top brass and the lower ranks who are more in touch with the mood of the
masses.