Category: Industrial Workers
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Pakistan: Ehsan Ali and AAC leaders arrested again
Advocate Ehsan Ali, chairman of the Awami Action Committee (AAC) of Gilgit-Baltistan, was arrested on the night of 10 March after police raided his home in Gilgit. In the days that followed, the homes of several other AAC leaders were raided and four more detained: Nusrat Hussain, Mehboob Wali, Nafees Advocate and Mehar Ali. Two…
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Bhakkar: The Crisis Facing Agriculture and the Plight of Farmers
In Pakistan today, ordinary farmers are forced to live in extreme poverty and destitution. Under state patronage, the plunder by fertiliser factory owners, sugar mill cartels, independent power producers (IPPs), large landowners, and middlemen continues unabated. Crops are purchased for a pittance, and farmers are trapped year after year in a vicious cycle of devastating…
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Sindh: How Can the Strike of Government Employees and Workers Be Made Successful?
At present, the economic crisis has intensified across the entire world. This economic crisis is a global organic crisis of the capitalist system, as a result of which the ruling class is bent on implementing measures such as wage cuts, pension reductions, job losses, privatisation of public institutions, downsizing, and forced retirements. These policies have…
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Pakistan: How Can the Workers’ Movement Advance?
In recent years, the working class in Pakistan has faced the worst attacks in the country’s history. The capitalist ruling class and the military-civil state elite, under IMF directives, are transferring the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the working class. New policies amounting to economic slaughter of workers are being introduced on a…
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Sindh: Government Employees Launch Province-Wide Strike Against Anti-Worker Measures!
The series of economic attacks on working people by rulers acting as agents of the IMF and other imperialist institutions continues unabated. In this same vein, in Sindh—just like all other provinces—the People’s Party, which calls itself the so-called torchbearer of democracy, has implemented anti-worker policies. These include pension reforms, non-payment of DRA (Disparity Reduction…
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International Trade Unions Rally Behind Arrested Gilgit-Baltistan Activists
International Solidarity Campaign Gains Momentum for Ahsan Ali and AAC-GB Leaders The arrest and detention of key leaders from the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB) has sparked a powerful wave of solidarity across British trade unions, with multiple branches and conferences passing emergency motions demanding their immediate release. Background: Arrests Spark International Solidarity The Pakistani…
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International Solidarity for Peoples (Awami) Action Committee AAC Gilgit-Baltistan
The Pakistani state’s latest crackdown on democratic organising has sparked international outrage. Leading members of the Awaami Action Committee – Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB), have been arrested in what can only be described as a blatantly political attack on those fighting for the poor and oppressed. Chairman Ehsan Ali, along with media officer Waheed Hassan, vice chairman…
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Punjab: Privatisation of Health Department rejected – Thousands across the province holding protests!
On March 25, the Grand Health Alliance held a protest rally in Lahore. This rally was organised against the Punjab government’s privatisation of Basic Health Units and Rural Health Centres. Under this government decision, thousands of employees are being forcibly removed through outsourcing. As a result, these employees have been compelled to protest. This government…
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AGIGA’s Protest Movement Against Privatization: General Strike is Inevitable for the Approval of Demands!
A series of protests continues from the AGIGA platform for the resolution of issues faced by government employees. AGIGA had called for weekly protests, resulting in protests by employees across various cities in the country on December 19, December 26, January 2, and January 7. In the central meeting of AGIGA, it was decided that…
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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…
