<pre><tt>Call for messages of support<br><br>PUK Attacks Striking Workers in Cement Factory – 27 July 06<br><br>This morning the Kurdish nationalist PUK party killed 3 workers and<br>injured 13 more at a factory in Tasloja in Sulaimaniya in Iraq. The<br>workers only crime was to be taking part in a picket of a Cement <br>factory<br>calling for an increase of wages. This is a clear infringement of<br>democratic rights and basic freedom of expression.<br><br>We the undersigned call on Trade Union Branches and human rights<br>organisations to send messages to Jalal Talabani, who was selected as<br>president of Iraq in April, condemning this action.<br><br>Messages of condemnation to:<br>Mr. Jalal Talabani<br>President<br>Republic of Iraq<br>Convention Centre (Qasr al-Ma’aridh)<br>Baghdad, Iraq<br><br>If you have a fax, please send appeals via the PUK offices abroad and <br>ask<br>them to be forwarded to President Talabani:<br><br>PUK office in United Kingdom: fax: +44 20 7 840
0630<br>PUK office in United States: fax:+1 202 637 2723<br>PUK office in Germany: fax: +49 30 863 987 94<br>PUK office in France: fax:+33 1 409 00282<br>PUK office in Italy: fax:+39 06 50 37120 (if someone answers ask for <br>the<br>fax line)<br>PUK office in the EU: fax:+31 703 895832 (if someone answers ask for <br>the<br>fax line)<br>PUK office in Sweden: fax: +46 8 917693 (if someone answers ask for the<br>fax line)<br><br>Copies or messages of support to: International Federation of Iraqi<br>Refugees - <a href="Compose?To=d.jamal@ntlworld.com&YY=53219&order=down&sort=date&pos=0">d.jamal@ntlworld.com</a> or 07856 032 991<br><br>Dashty Jamal, IFIR<br>David Broder, Convenor of Iraq Union Solidarity<br>Karen Johnson, No Sweat</tt></pre> <BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------<br>Read David Broder's blog - www.trotskyist.blogspot.com - analysis of Bolivia, Venezuela, the British Left and modern art<p> 
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