The workers at the Pakistani Steel Mills in Karachi have won a stunning victory over the management, composed
of corruput army officials. They occupied the plant and blocked a highway, causing the administration to
hastily back down and agree to the workers'
demands for better safety conditions in the wake of previous fatal accidents at the mills.
This is one of the most important victories for the Pakistani proletariat in recent times - alongside the victory of
the Baluchistan public sector workers in Quetta, which was led by Hameed Khan, the organizer of the PTUDC in Quetta.
These events will have an impact on the workers far beyond the premises of the Pakistan Steel Mills.
The JKNSF is a significant political force amongst youth in Kashmir. It is now led by Marxists with a clear socialist internationalist programme, and is getting an enthusiastic response from the radicalised Kashmiri youth.
On Saturday, March 23, at a crowded meeting in the Lahore Press Club, Lal Khan's new book
Partition - can it be undone? was launched. It can be bought online from
Wellred Books.