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management of the country . The demonstration organized by the Popular Front on January 14 in the center of the capital gathered a few thousand citizens ; other forces took part , including activists of the campaign “ what are we waiting for ?” Similar movements have been organized in the main cities of the country ( Sousse , Sfax , Gafsa , Sidi Bouzid , Kasserine , Bizerte , etc ., 16 cities in total , north and south ).
A campaign of demonization of the Front and its leaders is being organized through the media in the pay of the government ( as in the old days ). In the sermons of Friday , January 12 , in the five thousand mosques scattered throughout the country , the order was given to
contd from page 12 the Marxist-Leninists who are the true representatives of most radical social demands and who are strongly opposed to imperialist interventions , that the movement will achieve its goals .
The Party of Labour of Iran calls on the masses in the streets to be vigilant and avoid the premature violence . The agents of imperialists and Zionists and the sell-out circles do not value the human life . They only look for their interest . Every call on the masses should be carefully examined and its source be investigated .
The rights to formation of independent guilds , the right to employment and housing and unemployment insurance , the freedom of association and assembly , the separation of religion from the state and education , the abolition of gender segregation
contd from page 22 care , the government should strengthen its public health systems at all levels . Many studies had shown that poor people are going to government hospitals for their ailments both in urban and rural areas . Their main complaints
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“ imams ” to denounce the Popular Front and consider it a troublemaker ; some remarks were close to incitement to crime . The answer was not long in coming . The local workers ’ party in the village of Aroussa ( North West of the country ), the birthplace of Hamma Hammami , was burnt down the same evening .
In return , a broad coalition of political and social forces has emerged around the popular front and has set itself the immediate goal of suspending the application of the finance law , with a view to revising it . If that succeeds , it will mark the end of this government , and the beginning of a new stage of struggle .
and compulsory veils and dress code , and the freedom of all political prisoners are part of the demands of the street demonstrators . The Party of Labour of Iran gives its whole hearted support to these demands and believes that no faction of the Islamic regime has the will to fulfill these just and popular demands of the masses .
The Party of Labour of Iran ( Toufan ) strongly condemns the brutal killings of the protesters and calls on the fraternal Parties and Organizations in the “ Internatinal Conference of the Marxist Leninist Parties and Organizetions ” and on the revolutionary and progressive forces and individuals to condemn the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran for its crimes and to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detained street protesters . January 1 , 2018
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are poor infrastructure , absence of doctors and nursing staff and lack of medicines . And all of them are easily corrected with suitable and appropriate policy decisions . This could largely improve the quality of services delivered by the public health system .
� contd from page 21 emerged in the forest sector since 1988 ” which is characterized by “ low productivity and low quality of our natural forests , impacts on climate change , human- wild life conflict , intensifying water crisis ”, the government came up with PPP as the panacea .
This policy is the result of surrender to the imperialist dictates . While the US imperialism refuses to take the responsibility of reducing carbon emission – it being the largest emitter – the Paris agreement forces India to rise the carbon sink ( ability to absorb carbon from atmosphere ) of our forests to the tune of 3 billion tonnes . The first in the list of this sink is the carbon neutral timber . India accumulated Rs . 50,000 crore of net present value ( NPV ) funds under CAMPA ( Compensatory Aforestation fund Management and Planning Authority ). The rules to spend CAMPA funds clearly shows that state management of forests includes PPP . Thus , the Adivasis of India are made to pay with their lives and livelihoods for the crime of polluting the atmosphere by the profit driven capitalist system .
Government has been using the scarcity of timber to push its case of opening up forest lands to private capital . Anyhow only 5 per cent of timber needs are being met from the forests while 68 per cent from agro forestry in non-forest areas and the remaining from imports . By promoting agro forestry in non-forest areas timber needs of the country can be met along with utilising alternatives to timber . Instead of handing over the forests to private capital the government should look for alternatives . But it has chosen to destroy the lives of people and forest cover of India . This abominable draft policy should be opposed tooth and nail . �
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