Pakistan

Video footage of demonstration organised by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)

Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens

Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected

Millions badly affected.

Unless the trade unions take control of allcoating aid and assistance, the preferences will only end up lining the pockets of the corrupt Pakistani ruling class.

The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor

Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands

4,500 sacked workers reinstated

Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day

Religion, politics and the working class

20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat

Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.

Religious extremism on the rise

Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster

Joe Higgins MEP intervenes in the European Parliament debate on aid for Pakistan

More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.

Joe Higgins MEP explains his vote on a report on a new agreement with Pakistan allowing EU countries to facilitate the deportation of Pakistani immigrants back to the poverty and repression of Pakistan.

Stop terrorising the workers movement

Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.

Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions

A new report on the TURCP web-site shows the ongoing and tireless flood relief work by trade unionists in Pakistan

Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty

“Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich

Solidarity vital

Workers in Europe donate

TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and incompetence has made the disaster worse.

Urgent response to solidarity appeal needed!

Eye-witness accounts from flood-devastated areas

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most

Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

Joe also condemns the hypocrisy of right-wing politicans claiming to support human rights in Pakistan while supporting the brutal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Progressive Workers’ Federation of Pakistan unites almost 500,000 workers against privatisations and sackings, and to defend workers’ rights.

Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon Trotsky

No end to the violence

No end to the violence as guerrilla war escalates

Government and military fail Pakistani workers and poor

The economic tsunami hits the masses hard

Workers to shut down oil, gas fields across the country

Five women shot, wounded and buried alive

Urgent need of a mass working class party

America’s bloody imperialist war in Afghanistan spills into Pakistan

Struggle over pay and conditions in Balochistan province

Will this end the country’s political crisis?

8,000 contract workers’ ‘regularisation’ confirmed

Thousands still sitting inside Telecom headquarters

16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces

16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces