Author: Pakistan Trade Union Solidarity
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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)…
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Another Socialist is missing!
Bilawal Baloch from Quetta is suspected to have been abducted by the armed forces of Pakistan. He attended the protest held yesterday in front of the Karachi Press Club, which was called by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), and was heading back from there to his home in Quetta. But his mobile phone is permanently…
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Six leading comrades abducted by the army!
Six comrades who have reading roles in the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) and the Red Workers Front (RWF) were abducted on Sunday (22nd) in Karachi by the Army and Sindh Rangers, a paramilitary state department notorious for extra-judicial killings. We need to raise this in the labour and student movements around the world. We need…
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Victory for Pepsi-Cola workers in Faisalabad
A great victory has been won by striking workers of the Pepsi-Cola factory in Faisalabad, industrial hub of Pakistan. On 29 January 2018, almost 250 workers completely shut the factory down in solidarity with three colleagues who had been laid-off by the administration without prior notice. The three workers who were fired actively motivated their…
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Report: Privitisation Attacks and the Workers Movements in Pakistan
Last year in February, a new chapter opened up in the workers movement history of Pakistan. PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) workers carried out a complete strike for eight days during which not a single flight flew inside or outside of the country. The strike started after the barbaric murder of two workers in Karachi who…
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Quetta: Protest Rally of Railway Workers
On 23rd of May 2017, Railway Workers Union organised a protest rally for increase in wages, permanent jobs for contract workers and other demands from Quetta railway station to the Press Club. The rally was attended by a large number of workers. The rally was led by the union’s Quetta leadership President Atta M. Baloch,…
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Pakistan Steel Mills – Story of Neglect and Destruction
Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is the largest single industry of producing raw iron and finished steel products in Pakistan. If this fact is put into figures, it translates into production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of iron along with 5.5 million tonnes of iron finished products. The PSM is facing bankruptcy and the lives of…
