Thousands of police and military throughout Pakistan were mobilised during March and April to brutally repress and beat lawyers and judges who had taken to the streets to protest against the suspension of Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary, chief justice of the ...
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Socialist Movement (CWI Pakistan) prepares for a year of stormy battles and instability
Over a hundred delegates and visitors from the Socialist Movement’s membership which covers all four provinces of Pakistan met in Lahore on 18 – 19 March for an extremely successful Congress. The meeting was held to discuss the national and ...
Read More »Breakthrough first National Convention of Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP)
The TURCP organised its first national convention on 23 November 2006 in Lahore Press Club. More than 300 trade union leaders and activists attended the convention from all over the country. Eighty-eight different public and private sector unions were represented ...
Read More »Socialist Movement holds successful education school
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. Dozens attended the four day event, from 13th August to 16th August 2006, near ...
Read More »Public meeting discusses how to combat capitalist crisis
Islamabad’s national press club was the venue of a very successful regional meeting organised by the Socialist Movement (CWI Pakistan) for its members and sympathisers, on Monday 3 April.
Read More »Local elections expose Musharraf’s sham of democracy
The article below was written in early October. As a result of the earthquake, its translation into English was delayed, as well as its posting on our website. The partial stabilisation of Musharraf’s position following the elections is now in ...
Read More »Socialist Movement organises activity across Pakistan
Members of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) and the Pakistan Trade Union rights Campaign (PTURC) organised demonstrations and seminars in eighteen cities, while we participated in other Mayday activities in over twenty-one cities and towns.
Read More »Musharraf rule shaky as poverty rockets
Travelling from Malaysia to Karachi in Pakistan is to go from the ‘Second World’ to the ‘Fourth World’. Malaysia is certainly no showcase for Asian capitalism, as the apologists for the Kuala Lumpur regime argue. Indeed, it is no paradise ...
Read More »“End for capitalism demanded”
A very successful First Congress of the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP) – affiliated to the cwi – took place over the weekend of the 19/20 March 2005 in Lahore.
Read More »Socialist Movement receives enthusiastic welcome on Mayday
The newly formed Socialist Movement distributed a four page leaflet and attended Mayday activities in nine different cities right across Pakistan, including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Quetta, and Karachi.
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