The workers of the Taunsa Bridge
have won an important victory in their struggle for payment of wage arrears and
improved working conditions. Most of their demands have been met, and the rest
will be fulfilled within 48 hours.
Jam Saqi, is the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He has joined The Struggle, the Marxist tendency in Pakistan. In this interview he explains how he became active and finally came to understand the limitations of Stalinism. He invites all genuine revolutionary workers and youth on the South Asian subcontinent to join the International Marxist Tendency and struggle for socialist revolution.
The lawyers of Pakistan by taking to the streets to oppose an arbitrary act of the dictatorship have demonstrated their desire to fight, and if properly led, they could go far further than the immediate issue, to a genuinely national revolutionary struggle for democracy. Instead of that, all the indications are that the lawyers' movement is beginning to weaken and subside. Why is this?