Last Saturday the biggest
general strike ever was held in the Pakistani held Kashmir. What used to be the main base
towns of the Islamic Fundamentalists are now being taken over by the
Marxists. The most significant aspect of this strike was that it was
without violence or destruction. Above all, this general strike shows the rising
force and strength of revolutionary Marxism in Kashmir.
The struggle against
privatisation is heating up in Pakistan. Today, all the major papers
contained articles and reports on Comrade Manzoor’s magnificent
intervention in the National Assembly against the privatisation of
Pakistan Steel Mills.
Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, Member of the Pakistan National Assembly, along with several other MNAs has submitted two motions against the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL). We publish the following report from DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English daily newspaper.