A country on the edge
By Khalid Bhatti 28/01/2008 Pakistan, even before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, was gripped by a severe political and social crisis. There are country-wide protests against the price hikes…
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By Khalid Bhatti 28/01/2008 Pakistan, even before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, was gripped by a severe political and social crisis. There are country-wide protests against the price hikes…
Tens of thousands of garment workers have headed back to their factories in the Adamze Export Processing Zone, where machines are abuzz and the remnants of burned tires and vandalized…
More than 25000 textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled Bangladesh to demand back pay and bonuses in one of the country’s biggest industrial zones. The workers walked…
By Khalid Bhatti 03/05/2007 Workers want fightback by union leaders against neo-liberal policies of the military May Day is the most important activity for the working class in Pakistan. Hundreds…
By Khalid Bhatti 01/08/2007 More than 250 TURCP (Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan) members and political and social activists attended a protest demonstration in late December 2006, organized by TURCP…
By Khalid Bhatti 01/01/2007 The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from…
In its decision, the Sindh High Court declare the ban on teachers unions illegal and against the constitution and restores the trade union rights of 1,50,000 teachers in the Sidh…
By Khalid Bhatti 20/11/2006 Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists Trade Union Rights Campaign Organised a trade union meeting in the industrial area of Kot Lakhpat in…
By Khalid Bhatti 19/10/2006 Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions. The Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan organized a meeting…
5 killed, 50 injured in the fatal shooting by the security forces Thousands of protestors in northern Bangladesh went on a rampage Monday morning torching buildings linked to a…
By Rukhsana Manzoor 31/08/2006 The Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) and the CWI in Kashmir held a very successful joint Summer School (cadre education school) in the beautiful mountains of Kashmir.…
By Khalid Bhatti 29/08/2006 The town of Tharri Mohabat, in District DADU (Sindh Province), remained closed for three days in protest against feudal repression and police atrocities. All the shops…