Afghan Workers Solidarity
Campaign
First dispatch of cloths on
8th December to Afghanistan
4th December, 2001
As planned,
the first dispatch of cloths enough for 5000 Afghan families will be send on 8th December from Lahore to
Peshawar. One family will get one
traditional Shalwar Qamees (dress), children cloths and a blanket (blankets for all the families only, if we
get enough money from other sponsors).
Labour Party Pakistan Lahore chapter in a citywide campaign has collected the cloths from its supporters and
members. LPP is one of the sponsors of
the AWSC.
The aid
dispatch will be handed over to the representatives of Afghan Revolutionary Labour Organization in
Peshawar. The ARLO is also one of the
main sponsors of the Campaign. The representatives of ARLO and LPP met
at Rawalpindi on 2nd of December to
chart out the strategy to distribute the
aid dispatch.
A public
meting is being organized by LPP Lahore Mustafabad unit on 7th of December to thank those who have contributed
in bulk during the campaign.
Aid
dispatch is only one aspect of Afghan Workers Solidarity campaign. The planning include organizational help to the
progressive and left wing groups
working within the Afghan community inside and outside Afghanistan.
The possibility of producing a Pushto
language edition of Weekly Workers
Struggle once a month is being discussed also.
If you are one of the sponsors of the
campaign, and have not send your
donation so for, please send your donations immediately.
Please
become one of the sponsors
Olof Palme International Center I-Fund (Sweden)
Left Radical of Afghanistan Anti-War Project of COM-NET Japan
Workers Foundation of Iran Silla Vreisma (Netherlands)
Sponsors so for:
Socialist Initiative/Socialist League - Was Tun (Germany)
Workers Solidarity Pakistan (Germany)
Labour Party Pakistan
Scottish Socialist Party Women Workers
Help Line Lahore Pakistan
Afghan Labour Revolutionary Organization
All Pakistan Para Madical Staff Federation
Pakistan Printing and Graphic Workers Union
All Pakistan Bhatta Mazdoor Federation
Pakistan Railway Workers Union (democratic group)
Itehad Workers Union Carpet Industries Pakistan
Democratic Socialist Party of Australia
Labour Militant Voice of USA
Internationalism Editing Group Japan
Workers Democracy Network USA
Council of Human Needs USA
Workers International Unity (UIT), all the sections affiliated with this International also have decided to affiliate with AWSC
ASAP Australia
Olof Palme International Center I-Fund (Sweden)
Left Radical of Afghanistan
Anti-War Project of COM-NET Japan
Workers Foundation of Iran
Silla
vriesma (Netherlands)
Note: Education Foundation is registered non-government organization set up by the supporters of Labour Party Pakistan in 1993.