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The strike of power looms workers in Faisalabad enters
the seventh day.
Farooq Tariq (27\07\2010)
All factories are closed. Today on 27th July, women workers demonstrated in front of the district....
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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME: PAKISTAN: More than one hundred thousand power loom workers are on strike and the government failed to increase the wages according to its... read more |
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Stop repression against struggling power loom workers in Punjab: More than 100,000 workers of power loom in Faisalabad district of Punjab province are on strike from today, July 20, 2010 for their demand of wage increase according to the announcement by.... read more |
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Two Labour Leader Mostansir Randhawa and his Brother Killed In
Faisalabad:
On 6th July while Mustansar was listening to a worker who had not been
paid his wages by a textile boss, an unknown person with a Kalashnikov
entered the front room and fired. Mustansar...
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A Workers
election Campaign against feudal and capitalists:
On 1st May 2010, over 5000 industrial workers
participated in a public meeting at Suddar in
Faisalabad.
Renowned Punjabi poet Baba Najmi.....read
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100 Years Ago: Women's Day (1910-2010)
Socialist Women Declare a Global Feminist Holiday:
by Megan Cornish(8 Mar,2010)
Global Research, March 8, 2010: In
the process of accomplishing their own liberation, women
will be essential to the liberation of humanity...
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Financial Appeal: We
had launched a finance appeal on in mid December 2009 to
raise funds for the families of comrades who lost their
lives in a tragic accident on 13 December in
Baluchistan....read
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Appeal
to support families of Comrades died in accident
A brief tribute
organizing home based women workers till last.Four
LEF leaders died in road accident:Najma Khanum, Rehana
Kausar and Abdul Salam Salam along with their driver
Wahid Baluch lost their lives in a tragic traffic
incident at Omara in Baluchistan on 13 December evening......
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Straggering 31 Billion Dollar corruption
under Musharaf:
LPP press conference,
Farooq Tariq(23,nov 2009)
Labour Party Pakistan is of the firm view that the value
of the national wealth plundered during eight years of
General Musharaf regime is much higher than what is...
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Pakistan:
What to do about Religious Fundamentalism?Farooq
Tariq (28 October 2009)
“let’s
deal with the ISI [Pakistani intelligence agency] and
the Pakistan military and let’s go recruit these
mujahideen. Here is a…...read more |
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Whither Pakistan!:Farooq Sulehria
(26 October 2009)
'Whither Pakistan?'. This is a question
now a days repeatedly raised in media globally in the
wake of high-profile suicidal attacks in last two weeks.....read
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LEF's
Labour Conference: Industry – wise unions suggested: LAHORE, Oct 1: Need for developing a culture of
resistance to anti-labour political and economic
policies was stressed at a conference on ‘Challenges...
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Myth of a 'legendary banker':
(This article was sent to The News as a rejoinder but
was not run by the said newspaper. We are publishing it
on our website. )
Her 'Islamic' nature is comprised if 'Republic of...read
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Villains and clowns dominate
Afghan electoral theatre:
Unlike 2004 , global media are not buzzing round
forthcoming Afghan presidential election scheduled for
August 20. The coy little coverage one finds in
mainstream...
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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION –
URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM:
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-097-2009-13 August
2009PAKISTAN: A human rights activist faces terrorism
charges for publicising the murder of Christians, while
the mullahs who encouraged the...read
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Why Tariq Mehmood was arrested in Gojra?
:On 9th August 2009, Tariq Mehmood, a
human rights activists and general secretary Labour Party
Pakistan Toba Tek Singh district issued a press release to the...read
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Protest: Interwood Furniture Company's brutal actions
against trade union:
Today,
23rd May, few of the Interwood Furniture
Company workers who are sacked from job due to
unionization were gathering at some distance from the
factory for going to the labour...
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Union busting at Inter Wood
Furniture Factory; Union members on hunger strike in Lahore:
In a
recent move, the notorious bosses of Inter Wood Furniture
Factory in Lahore ordered closure of factory on morning of 15th
May to break the will of workers who have...
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Military Operation Cannot Eliminate Taliban:
At the time when President Zardari was on US visit along
with ISI head, a heavy military operation started in Swat. This
operation is different in nature than the previous ones....read
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Relief Camp set up at Regal
Chouck Lahore: Several social and labour organization have
set up a relief camp at Regal Chouck Lahore today. They are appealing to
all their members to bring food and related items...read
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Implementation of the Rs. 6,000 per month minimum wage for unskilled
workers:
A press
conference was held in the premises of Lahore Pres Club on 29th October
2008, to launch the campaign for implementation of minimum wage Rs.
6,000 for unskilled workers...
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