Author: Pakistan Trade Union Solidarity
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Pepsi-Co Faisalabad: brutality against workers, 175 forced sacking
Pepsi-Co Company took a revenge against workers who campaigned for the reinstatement of their sacked fellow workers through holding a large demonstration on 29 January 2018 in Faisalabad. Pepsi-Co administration fired 175 workers forcefully without any prior notice or following legal steps. The sacked workers are now protesting against administration’s brutality. The workers are saying…
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UCU national congress to vote on solidarity with Pashtun movement
Beginning on 30 May the University and College Union (UCU), the largest higher and further education trade union in the world, will be holding its national congress in Manchester. On the agenda, among many other things, is a motion submitted from the Kings College London branch of the UCU expressing solidarity with Pakistani workers and…
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Pakistan: PTM holds huge Karachi meeting despite severe crackdown
On Sunday 13 May, thousands attended a public meeting of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi. Along with a huge turnout by Pashtuns, ordinary men and women from Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir nationalities also took part. The meeting continued until late into the night as Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the PTM, arrived late.…
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Trade Unions and Labour support for the PTUS Campaign
Unite branch of Cambridge University agreed unanimously to support PTUS campaign against state abduction of workers in Pakistan. A motion was presented highlighting protection movement of Pashtuns PTM and its support by trade unionists and workers in Pakistan. We also had the following important trade union and Labour party figures signing the petition of protest:…
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Solidarity campaign secures release of abducted socialists in Pakistan
On Friday, all of the 11 Marxist activists and members of the Progressive Youth Alliance and the Red Workers’ Front, who were abducted by the Pakistani security forces last week were released. This is a huge victory for the solidarity campaign, which ran on the 25th and 26th of April, both in Pakistan and on…
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Cambridge students showed solidarity with the PTUS Campaign
A gathering of Pakistani students in Cambridge was held today at the Graduate Union Lounge of Cambridge University, today on 29 April 2018. During the event, PTUS UK organiser made a speech and introduced about the PTUS Campaign, the incidence of the abduction of workers and youth in Karachi and their release, and a brief…
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The comrades are free and defiant! Formerly abducted comrade, Aftab Ashraf sends a message
Leading comrade of the Red Workers’ Front, Aftab Ashraf, has also recorded a video statement after being released by the Rangers. We publish it here: Here we have images of some of the comrades who were abducted, including Aftab, defiant in the face of their ordeal:
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Protests against state abductions continue in Pakistan. The movement advances!
Protests and demonstrations continue against the abductions in different parts of Pakistan, including Multan, Rawalakot, Buner, Dadu and Quetta: #ReleaseOurComrades #PYA #RWF #IMT #ReleasePoliticalActivists #PashtunTahafuzMovement #PTM #LalSalaam
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All the activists have been released: international solidarity campaign victorious!
It has been confirmed that the last of our abducted Pakistani activists have been released by the Rangers. We are relieved to have them back safely and grateful to all of our supporters who participated in our solidarity campaign, which was instrumental in securing the abductees. We publish the following message from the Progressive Youth…
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35 more arrested in Lahore! #ReleaseOurComrades
The leadership of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) issued a solidarity appeal last night on social media and asked for protests across the country for the nine comrades arrested by the Rangers. In one protest in Lahore today, however, there was a crackdown, and many left-wing activists, over 35 in total from different organisations, were…
