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A May Day rally organized by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan) and others including trade unions of Mirpur Khas in Sindh started from the office of the Progressive Workers Federation and marched through the city. Especially impressive was the female workers contingent in the demonstration.
Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan. This followed years of repression at the hands of the political and military elite in power since Pakistan’s independence from British colonial rule in 1947. KHALID BHATTI looks back at the tumultuous time of
The latest episode in the so-called “war on terror” has provoked anger and disbelief not only from the population of Pakistan, but also amongst the military officials. On Sunday, Pakistan buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack. This has intensified a crisis in relations betwee
Friday, May 4th, 2012
A May Day rally organized by Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan) and others including trade unions of Mirpur Khas in Sindh started from the office of the Progressive Workers Federation and marched through the city. Especially impressive was the female workers contingent in the demonstration.
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Forty years ago, Bangladesh became an independent state, breaking away from Pakistan.
This followed years of repression at the hands of the political and military elite in power since Pakistan’s independence from British colonial rule in 1947. KHALID BHATTI looks back at the tumultuous time of
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The latest episode in the so-called “war on terror” has provoked anger and disbelief not only from the population of Pakistan, but also amongst the military officials. On Sunday, Pakistan buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack. This has intensified a crisis in relations betwee
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Below we publish a short video of a demonstration by the "Progressive Female Health Workers Association", led by the Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan) in Sindh province late in November.
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Heavy monsoon rains have continued to lash most of the Sindh and wreaked havoc in the Badin and Mirpurkhas districts and many other districts in the province leaving over 30 people dead and a large number of injured due to roof collapses and rain-related incidents. Hundreds of villages are also subm
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The terrible floods in Pakistan have left hundreds of thousands homeless in Sindh province and the situation is getting worse by the day. More than 500 people have been killed and 1.5 million houses destroyed or badly damaged. Five million acres have been flooded since late last month.
Because o
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Around ten million people have been directly and severely affected in the twenty-one districts of Sindh province due to non-stop heavy rain and floods, caused by breaches in the drains and canals. Similarly, more than ten million others in the province have been indirectly affected, and will become
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
The bloody terrorist outrages of 11 September 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington were one of the defining moments in recent history. It is ten years since the twin towers came crashing down in New York. In the aftermath of that terrorist attack, US imperialism unleashed mass slaughter in
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Serious capitalist representatives and Marxists often have shared analyses of events. Where they differ is in the diametrically opposed class conclusions that they draw from these. This important book on China illustrates this well. The authors have the advantage of having lived and worked in Ch
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
In the video below, Paul Murphy MEP explains why he voted in favour of emergency trade preferences for Pakistani products in the EU but also warn that the benefits of those preferences will only end up lining the pockets of the corrupt Pakistani ruling class unless the trade unions take control of a
The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Pakistan was set up in April 2005 to help coordinate solidarity and support for workers’ struggles against downsizing, privatisation, and the neo-liberal agenda of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
We publish an introduction to the new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon Trotsky, published by the Socialist Movement Pakistan. This introduction is written by Peter Taaffe.
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