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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…
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Railway Workers Continue Struggle for Their Rights
Today the condition of workers in all sectors and institutions across Pakistan is miserable. Railway is not prone to this. Constant decline real wages combined with adverse working conditions is widespread in Railway. The workers have been struggling for the last many years for their decent working conditions. At one side the government is constantly…
