Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper, Published by Relgocrest Ltd. for Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London NI. Printed by Feb Edge Litho Ltd (TU), IN THE face of overwhelming mass opposition inside Pakigenerals Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, country's last elected Minister.
There was WEYC out the country. In Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi the masses confronted police and the army.
They attacked banks, built barricades, set stations on fire. Over a dozen people were killed thousands arrested.
The slogan which chanted 'Revenge!
Revenge!"
After four days of rioting the generals have restored a shaky peace, but this is not the end of the story.
The sheer cold-blooded brutality of Zia and his cohorts has shocked the entire country.
Many oid rivalries have been forgotten. Former opponents were prominent among those who demonstrated against the hanging.
Even itthe army tolerates a general election and even Bhutto's People's Party (PPP) wins, the masses will be looking for other means of attaining these will be mass struggles, strikes, land occupations, and so on.
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The question nationalities will also become prominent. Bhutto Sindhi. hanged hanged him and the judges who the acquiesced are all Punjabis — Prime though the Punjab masses are as opposed to hanging as the of rest of the country.
In hanging generals with a halo of martyrdom. In the death he will prove to be a more powerful image than when he was alive. ponce Zia does not have long to go.
The only question is whether he and will be replaced by a coup from within the army, government which from the promised elections, or a series of mass uprisings.
Pakistan was always a state without a past. The generals nave ensureo inal i is also a state without a future.
* Tariq Ali, Socialist Unity candidate Southall, among the who marched from Hyde Park Sunday to Bhutto's hanging. * More than 300 Pakistanis now marched through Nottingham last Sunday in protest at the execution of Bhutto. Speakers al a linal rally were Nawaz, Mohammed Aslam (a leader of SCOPO), and Julian Atkinson (Socialist election agent).
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