ON OCTOBER 21 a truck load of military men turned up at the offices of the Pakistan Trade Union Resource Centre where the weekly paper of the PLP, Mazdoor Jeddojund. not support the military. They took away copies of the paperas well as a copy of a new book, "Prepare For Fight," written by Amjad Ayub, LPP overseas organiser. attack on press freedom despite the promise of Chief Executive General Pervaiz Mussaraf in his first address that this would be respected. October with the slogan "No to Martial Law" and an appeal to the workang masses to fight against the military dictatorship. li has detailed articles on the present situation and LPP point of view to fight back against Chief Executive General Pervaiz Mussaraf Islamabad, Pakistan. They harrassed the printing workers, complaining that the paper did As the subsequent press release from the PL.P points out this raid is an The first issue of the Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd was printed on 19th LPP is the only political party which has not welcomed the present Picase protest against this attack and send your Emails and faxes to the rashtra-based Shiv Sena, have almost 190 seats. BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has nearly 300 scats. The main opposition party is the Indian National Congress, with over 100 seats. Congress is the historic party of the Indian bourand, since it was led by Rajir Gandhi, it has been getting rid of all "socialis:" rhetoric and populist policies. It was Congress, under the Prime Ministersoup Rao, and during the period when Manmohan Singh was the Finance Minister, that began the current Indian cconomy into "globalised" capitalIt is now clear that indian capital
Kunal Chattopadhyay and Rohit Prajapati December 1l 1998 until September 2 1999 just under 250 workers at the Hema Chemical plant in Guarat, India were or strike, demanding an end to the life-threatening and unsafe conditions in the factory. While the strike nas now choca because the union no longer had the financial resources to support the workers, the battle to make conditions less deadly continues.
To understand the significance it is necessary to know something about the union that led it, the Vadodara Kamdar Union (Baroda SOCIALIST OUTLOOK 18