The Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan Reaches Kashmir The PTUDC Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan has arrived in Kashmir! We publish here a report of the caravan's journey and arrival, and explain some of the problems that the caravan has encountered.
To the people of Kashmir As the Pakistani Marxists are taking part in relief operations in Kashmir, Alan Woods, on behalf of the International Marxist Tendency, has addressed a letter to the Kashmiri people, which is being read out in all the relief camps that have been set up.
Kashmir: Relief Effort moves forward We have received this report from Kashmir, detailing the PTUDC's growing relief efforts. Medical camps are now being established and our relief camps are awaiting the goods to arrive with the solidarity caravan.
Indian doctors not given visa to enter Pakistan for relief effort This article from the English daily DAWN in Pakistan explains that the team of doctors coming with the Indian relief delegation to go along with MP Manzoor Ahmed and the Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan have been denied access to Pakistan. This clearly exposes the rottenness of the Musharraf regime and shows how little the dictatorship is concerned about the victims of the earthquake.
Earthquake Update: Eyewitness report from Kashmir We have received this report from Pakistan containing information from the PTUDC teams on the ground in Kashmir. The comrades have been hard at work establishing Solidarity Relief camps and holding meetings to discuss an action plan for the relief effort on the ground.
Pakistan Update: The Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan On Friday, October 14, Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, Member of Parliament and PTUDC president, held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club announcing the launching of the PTUDC solidarity caravan, called “The Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan”. Manzoor also announced his programme of demands for the aftermath of the earthquake and criticised the Musharraf government's handling of the disaster.
Pakistan: Shock turns to anger in aftermath of devastating earthquake The initial shock of the earthquake in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir is beginning to turn into anger as millions of people are left without shelter in the cold and rain. The PTUDC’s international solidarity campaign has swung into action raising well over £1000 over the last few days. The response to our appeal has been truly amazing, but we need to raise more money to pay for the supplies, convoys, and medicines that we will be sending to the worst affected areas of Kashmir and Pakistan.
PTUDC Earthquake Relief Fund We received this flyer from the PTUDC in the United States, which is being distributed to trade unions and workers in the US in order to raise money for the PTUDC's aid campaign. You can download the flyer from the PTUDC website.
Pakistan: Highest GDP in the World We were sent this contribution from Munno Bhai, a very well known left wing journalist and TV director in Pakistan. The article is on the economic growth rates in Venezuela. It is one of his daily columns published on September 23 in the daily Urdu newspaper, the Jang with a readership of nearly 20 million people.
Earthquake in Pakistan exposes rottenness of regime Upwards of 40,000 people are thought to have died and hundreds of thousands injured in Pakistan, northern India, and Kashmir as a result of the earthquake that hit the region Saturday morning. The devastation caused by the quake has exposed the rottenness of the Musharraf regime and has left millions stranded with no shelter, food or water.
Review of Pakistani poet Javed Shaheen's “I Ask the Night” “I Ask the Night” is a translation of selected poems by Javed Shaheen, the famous Pakistani poet, published by Struggle Publications in Lahore. Javed Shaheen witnessed the terrible bloodshed at the time of the partition of India and that marked him for the rest of his life. Ever since then he has sided with the downtrodden and oppressed.
Review of Pakistani poet Javed Shaheen's “I Ask the Night” “I Ask the Night” is a translation of selected poems by Javed Shaheen, the famous Pakistani poet, published by Struggle Publications in Lahore. Javed Shaheen witnessed the terrible bloodshed at the time of the partition of India and that marked him for the rest of his life. Ever since then he has sided with the downtrodden and oppressed.
Pakistan earthquake: an appeal for the Kashmiri workers We have just received this urgent appeal from the comrades in Pakistan. The terrible earthquake that has devastated the north of Pakistan and India has had its worst effects in Kashmir. As if the inhabitants of this oppressed land had not suffered enough, nature has now inflicted an appalling calamity that falls heaviest on the poorest sections of society. We are calling on our readers to give as generously as possible to the special appeal that we have launched today.
Pakistan earthquake: an appeal for the Kashmiri workers We have just received this urgent appeal from the comrades in Pakistan. The terrible earthquake that has devastated the north of Pakistan and India has had its worst effects in Kashmir. As if the inhabitants of this oppressed land had not suffered enough, nature has now inflicted an appalling calamity that falls heaviest on the poorest sections of society. We are calling on our readers to give as generously as possible to the special appeal that we have launched today.
