A motion of affiliation to the PTUDC was successfully passed
at the meeting of the University
of East Anglia Union Council
on 21st February. The Union is now officially affiliated and an
emergency motion on Pakistan
was also passed to be sent to the NUS Executive in time for the National
Conference.
According to a report by the National Union of Sacked and Unemployed
Workers in Iran three labour activists who were arrested and tried following
last year's May Day celebrations in Sanandaj have each been lashed 10
times. Please send a protest letter to put pressure on the Iranian regime to
release these class war prisoners immediately and
unconditionally.
Over a dozen people attended a meeting on the recent fraudulent
elections in Pakistan on a cold blustery Toronto evening. The meeting
was hosted by Canadian supporters of the Pakistani Trade Union Defence
Campaign (PTUDC), the first such meeting to date in Canada.