On January 4, the paper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd ("Workers Struggle") celebrated 21 years of publication. Workers Struggle was first published in 1980 from Amsterdam as a six monthly paper in Urdu and English, then going monthly during 1984.
During the military dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq it became the largest opposition paper in exile. When martial law was lifted in ( 986, the Struggle started its publication from Pakistan as a book series. In 1989, it became a monthly, and then in 1977 took the important step of becoming a weekly.
Today the paper appears only in Urdu. Ed You can subscribe for 260 Rupees annually within Pakistan, or abroad $50. Please send your cheques and drafts on the name of Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd Sufi Mansion, 7- Egerton Road Lahore Pakistan. never National Accountability. no were camp prechces against them. than fight for people's that those "corrupt" leaders It was a bitter fact already They cannot play any proof the Muslim League who gressive role in achieving the goals of modernisation of the advocated a compromise regime were society. They have not yet been touched by the able to end feudalism or Bureau of But those achieve democratic rights, in the Nawaz industrialisation were arrested, anto national unity in the real sense. rosee di correston and ma- They are totally dependent registered on the mercy of imperialism and - in the case of Pakistan It scers that Nawaz Sharif will pay eren a heavier price - on the army. Those who had hoped against hope that the military regime. the capitalist class could Umil yesterday he had been boasting of a life long fight sometime play a progressive for ihe restoration of democ- role have been disappointed again and again. racy. His wife Kalsoom led a
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