Sacked workers vent anger in Karachi
Monday, January 31st, 2011
On Wednesday 19 January, the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC) sacked 4,000 workers without prior notice. Thousands of workers and union l
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Workplaces or workers’ death chambers? Factory fire kills 300 workers, hundreds injured
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
The garment factory inferno in Karachi’s Baldia Town, which took the lives of at least 275 workers, including a number of women and teenage workers,
Protesting port workers occupied the Karachi port
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January. The workers locked all the entry
Violence erupts in Karachi as political polarisation increases
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city saw its worst political violence in decades on 12 May. Over 50 people were killed and more than 150 injured in clas
“Stop privatisation or face a black out”
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
More than 3000 workers of Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation [KESC] organised a protest rally against the proposed privatisation of this state own
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.