Four workers killed, eight injured as security forces open fire on protesting workers Fazal Abbas Shah and Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore An all-out strike continued at the state-owned national air lines PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) for the third ...

Workers in oil and gas fields have decided to shut down all fields in Pakistan. The unions have called for an all-out, indefinite strike from November 17, if the government fails to halt the privatization. Oil and gas field workers ...

Lessons of the Pakistan Telecoms Company Ltd (PTCL) Union Action Committee betrayal of strike.

On Friday, 4 June, representatives of the Pakistani government signed an agreement with the nine-union strong Action Committee in Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL), following ten days of strike action. This was reported on all the major satellite and TV ...

The rallies and daily two hour strikes by Pakistan Telecom workers against privatisation continues across the country.

The Anti Privatization Campaign launched by an alliance of nine unions in the telecom sector has received a tremendous response from workers throughout the country.

“THIS IS the biggest challenge to President Musharraf of Pakistan from the trade unions on the question of privatisation since he came to power in 1998.” These words from Azad Qadri, (a member of the Socialist Movement Pakistan -CWI in ...