Category: Campaigns
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Balochistan: Grand Health Alliance’s Remarkable Success – Achievements and Lessons
The protest movement launched by the Grand Health Alliance (GHA) in Balochistan against the privatization of hospitals, which began in October 2024, temporarily concluded on January 22, 2025, with successful negotiations. PTUS congratulate the Health Department employees and GHA leadership on this achievement. It is important to note that the Grand Health Alliance—a coalition of…
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Five-Day Strike of All Primary School Teachers Successful! Intensify the Struggle!
Thousands of teachers protested in front of Peshawar Assembly Hall on the call of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa All Primary School Teachers Association. Meanwhile, all primary schools across the province remained closed. Teachers’ demands are as follows: PTUS, while fully supporting all teachers’ demands, expressed solidarity with them and stood shoulder to shoulder in this struggle. Due…
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Lahore: APCA Protest for Approval of Demands
On October 31, as part of weekly district-level protests across Punjab, APCA (All Pakistan Clerks Association) joined with various organizations in Lahore to protest against the black law of Leave Encashment, privatization of government schools, and other workers’ demands in front of the Civil Secretariat Lahore. The central rally started from the McLeod Road office…
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Karachi University: A Place of Torment for Teachers, Students, and Employees!
Despite being one of the country’s largest and most important educational institutions, Karachi University has become a source of problems and hardships for its students, teachers, and employees (both permanent and temporary). The economic crisis, which is a continuation of the global crisis in Pakistan, has become irreparable. IMF-like imperialist institutions are pressuring local rulers…
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Crisis in Public Healthcare: Hospital Tragedies and the Privatization
Last month, three children allegedly died due to incorrect injections in the children’s ward of a government hospital in Khanewal, and a nurse was arrested for their deaths. After the nurse’s arrest, nurses in government hospitals across Punjab began protests. In these protests, nurses demanded their colleague’s immediate release and announced continuing the protest series…
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Rawalpindi: The Miserable Condition of Workers in Rawat Industrial Area
Workers in the Rawat Industrial Area are facing severe financial difficulties. On the one hand, there’s a storm of inflation, and on the other, workers’ monthly salary is only 12,000 to 15,0000 PKR. The working time is more than 12 hours daily. The minimum wage is 32,000 PKR for a full-time involving 8 hours daily…
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Tando Adam: Power Loom Workers Struggle
In Tando Adam City, more than 4000 workers are associated with the power looms sector. These workers are not provided with proper wages as determined by the minimum wage laws. They are not provided with any health and safety equipment or facilities. Labour laws in any form or share are not being implemented; this includes…
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Unpaid and Undervalued: The Plight of Paramedical Staff at Sheikh Zayed Hospital
The salaries of the paramedical staff at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, located in the city of Lahore, have not been paid for two months. Prior to this, hospital workers had to struggle to receive their salaries, after which they were paid for two months, and now, once again, their salaries for two months have not been…
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Quetta: Protest demonstration against the death of 13 workers in a coal mine in Harnai
Two days ago, an explosion in a coal mine in the Zard Alo area of Harnai district in Balochistan resulted in the death of 13 workers. On March 23, a protest demonstration was organized by the Red Workers Front and the Pakistan Workers Federation in front of the Quetta Press Club against this incident. The…
