We republish here the back page of the December 30th, 2007 edition of The Post - Lahore. The first extracts were from the Pakistan People's Party 1970 manifesto, the second ones from the 2008 pro-Capitalist manifesto and the third section of the page was Alan Woods' article Pakistan: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, providing a Marxist analysis of the situation in Pakistan after Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
South Waziristan is a
Tribal area in Pakistan, on the notorious Durand Line drawn by the British in
1893. The presence of a primitive tribal system in this area and the absence of
any social infrastructure clearly reveal the impotence of the Pakistani
bourgeoisie. What is new is the fact that a Marxist is standing for parliament
in the area, offering a socialist alternative to the barbarism that threatens
the whole region.
On Monday, January 14, a bomb attack took
place in Karachi. The bomb was clearly part of an attempt to intimidate the
people in the area with the aim of stopping them from voting on February 18.
The area where the bomb went off lies within the constituency where comrade Riaz
Hussain Lund Baloch, a revolutionary Marxist, is standing. All indications are
that this overwhelmingly working class area is going to vote massively for him.
It is evident that the bomb is aimed at him and his election campaign.