Author: Pakistan Trade Union Solidarity
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Comrades in Pakistan take action!
We explained what happened here, where you will also find all the information you need on the abductions, where to send messages of protest (along with a model letter) and a model motion. Below, we list the activities of the Marxists in Pakistan in solidarity with the Pashtun movement and all the solidarity activities that…
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The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), state repression and the fight for socialism!
Pakistan is a country of over 200m people, but at least 40 percent live in poverty. Life expectancy is low, at an average of 66 years and infant mortality is high, with about about 64.2 deaths per 1,000 live births. For a large part of the population life is a living hell. But on top…
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Pakistan Embassy in Stockholm picketed by socialist activists, solidaritet!
Today’s demonstration outside the pakistani embassy in solidarity with the abducted Pakistani socialists
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Plain clothed officers harassing activists #EndStateRepression
While the international campaign was building up, we got news of more repressive measures by the Rangers. Yesterday, Tuesday, 24 April, another protest was organised in Karachi. There was another crackdown and four comrades were taken away by the Rangers: Jalal Jan, Shay Razai, Faras Raj and Yasir Irshad. Two of these were released very…
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Protest in Brussels outside Pakistan Embassy #EndStateAbductions
Protest action this morning at the Pakistan Embassy in Brussels to demand the release of 9 abducted left wing activists from the Progressive Youth Alliance and the Red Workers Front. After a short moment of panick members of the staff let us in the backgarden to discuss with us. The man in the white shirt…
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The seven become nine: Two more Pakistan activists abducted while protesting about previous abductions – step up the campaign!
Yesterday in Karachi two more supporters of the Lal Salaam group were abducted by the Rangers. They were protesting peacefully, together with other left activists and groups in front of the Karachi Press Club, against the previous abductions when there was crackdown by the military and four protesters were taken away. Later two of them…
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Rally in Vienna for abducted Pakistani activists
The movement for the release of the Pakistani activists has become an international movement! These are the pictures and videos taken from a rally in Vienna. The comrades also picketed the Pakisan Embassy demanding justice, we won’t stop until they are released!
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Act now: mobilise all forces to save abducted Pakistani activists
The seven socialist activists abducted by the Rangers in Pakistan are still being held. Their whereabouts remain unknown. All possible measures are being taken to locate them. As yet, no charges have been made and the reason is that no crime has been committed. They have been abducted because of their solidarity activities with the…
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Campaign for the release of comrades gaining support!
Today, protests were held in Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawlakot and other cities to demand the release of comrades abducted in Karachi by the army and Sindh Rangers. They were disappeared because they joined a protest in front of the Karachi Press Club that was called by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). Nobody has been informed…
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Petition: Release the disappeared socialist activists in Pakistan immediately
Seven prominent youth and trade union activists have been disappeared in Karachi by the Army and Sindh Rangers, a paramilitary state department notorious for extra-judicial killings. Nobody has been told about their whereabouts so far and no case has been registered against them. These activists, all of them members of Lal Salaam (International Marxist Tendency)…
