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12/11/2011: Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, interviewed on Al Jazeera
11/11/2011: Gaza Flotilla activists abducted in international waters and illegally
held for 7 days by the Israeli state
11/11/2011: “Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical
appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the
working class.”
11/11/2011: “A journey of a thousand miles begins”
11/11/2011: "A ’No Cannes Do’ summit"
10/11/2011: Debt crisis hits Eurozone’s third largest economy
10/11/2011: Government ministers "have not uttered a single word of protest in
public in response to this outrage"
10/11/2011: Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”
09/11/2011: Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul
Murphy MEP on Friday
09/11/2011: Hundreds sign protest condemning Nazarbayev dictatorship and demanding
democratic rights
08/11/2011: Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment
08/11/2011: New ’National unity’ government = ‘austerity coalition’
08/11/2011: Rich hoard wealth - Fight for a socialist future!
08/11/2011: And vow that the struggle goes on
08/11/2011: Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores
another big victory
07/11/2011: Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!
05/11/2011: "Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and
foreclosures"
04/11/2011: For a socialist, internationalist solution
04/11/2011: Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!
04/11/2011: Government’s policies will plunge society into Greek style crisis
04/11/2011: Ship radio communication cut
04/11/2011: A list of opposition activists led by the LSR (CWI in Brazil) will
contest the second round of elections for the leadership of the largest
union of sanitation workers in Latin America.
03/11/2011: Left Alliance joins Conservative led government – Time to build radical,
left alternative!
02/11/2011: Breaking News: New freedom flotilla enters international waters
02/11/2011: Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor
movement
02/11/2011: Labour had a good day in Presidential and by-election polls but it’s all
down hill from here
01/11/2011: Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
01/11/2011: Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy
31/10/2011: But battles still to wage
31/10/2011: What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
30/10/2011: Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
29/10/2011: New laws to repress social protest
28/10/2011: Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
27/10/2011: Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri
Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda
Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
27/10/2011: Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!
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|  24/09/2011, Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens
By Hameed Channa, Progressive Workers Federation Pakistan and Socialist
Movement Pakistan (CWI), Sindh
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|  16/09/2011, Crisis worsens, hundreds killed, millions affected
Hameed Channa Progressive Workers Federation Pakistan and Socialist
Movement Pakistan (CWI), Sindh
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|  15/09/2011, Millions badly affected.
Syed Fazal Abbas, Secretary General, Progressive Workers Federation of
Pakistan
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|  17/05/2011, Unless the trade unions take control of allcoating aid and assistance,
the preferences will only end up lining the pockets of the corrupt
Pakistani ruling class.
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  02/05/2011, The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large
mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing
of Osama Bin Laden.
Tony Saunois, CWI
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|  17/04/2011, Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the
worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of
speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  18/02/2011, Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore
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|  17/02/2011, 4,500 sacked workers reinstated
Fazal Abbas Shah, secretary general TURCP and PWF, Lahore
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|  30/01/2011, Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters
third day
Syed Fazal Abbas, Secretary General TURCP and PWF, Rukhsana Manzoor
Finance Secretary, TURCP – members of Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP –
CWI in Pakistan)
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|  26/01/2011, Religion, politics and the working class
Khalid Bhatti, general secretary of Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP -
CWI Pakistan)
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|  22/01/2011, 20,000 jobs under threat - protesting workers forced the authorities to
retreat
Rukhsana Manzoor finance secretary TURCP (Trade Union Rights Campaign
Pakistan)
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|  21/01/2011, Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and
effectively took over the port on 17th of January.
A.K Memon, Progressive Workers’ Federation Karachi
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|  11/01/2011, Religious extremism on the rise
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore
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|  30/10/2010, Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster
Hameed Chanah, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) Sindh
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|  02/10/2010, More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s
floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to
eat, according to UNICEF.
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI Pakistan)
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Further articles on 'Pakistan':2009: 2008: - 17/11/2008: Pakistan: Pakistani economy on the brink
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) - 12/11/2008: Pakistan: Gas field privatization
Fazal Abbas, Trade Union Rights Campaign, Pakistan - 27/10/2008: Pakistan: Pakistani Women, religious extremism and traditions
Rukhsana Manzoor Socialist Movement of Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) - 23/10/2008: Pakistan: PPP strengthens its grip on power but country plunged into
crisis.
Khallid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP, CWI in Pakistan),
Lahore. - 12/09/2008: Pakistan: Massacres of the Pashtoon peoples
Dr Zayar, Pakistan - 03/09/2008: Pakistan: Water and sanitation workers’ protest
Maroof Azad, central organiser of the Pakistan workers’ movement (PWM)
and General Secretary united labour federation (MLF) Balochistan - 20/08/2008: Pakistan: General Musharraf resigns as president
Khalid Bhatti, Lahore, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) - 31/07/2008: Pakistan: Telecom workers win strike with 35% increase in the wages
Fazal Abbas Shah, Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP), Lahore - 29/07/2008: Pakistan: Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail
Azam Janjuah, TURCP, Islamabad - 22/07/2008: Pakistan: 50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike
Azad Qadri and Aazam Janjua, TURCP Islamabad - 21/07/2008: Pakistan: 50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike
Azad Qadri and Aazam Janjua, TURCP Islamabad - 17/07/2008: Pakistan: 50,000 workers strike - power looms shut down in Faisalabad
Khalid Bhatti, TURCP Faisalabad - 02/05/2008: Pakistan: Trade Union Rights Campaign participates in over 50 towns and
city May Day events
Khalid Bhatti, International Secretary TURCP - 21/02/2008: Pakistan: Crushing defeat for pro-Musharraf parties, landslide for
opposition
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore - 28/01/2008: Pakistan : A country on the edge
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore - 02/01/2008: Pakistan: Mass opposition to military and Musharraf regime after Benazir
killing
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore
2007: - 29/12/2007: Pakistan: Socialist Movement condemns the killing of Benazir Bhutto
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI), Lahore - 14/11/2007: Pakistan: Brutal state force unleashed on peaceful protesters
From members of Pakistan Socialist Movement, CWI in Pakistan - 14/11/2007: Pakistan : Musharraf announces general election in January
Khald Batti, Socialist Movement - Pakistan, (CWI), Lahore - 05/11/2007: Pakistan: Martial law imposed
Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore - 23/10/2007: Pakistan: Suicide bombings at Bhutto rally
Khalid Bhatti, Pakistan Socialist Movement (CWI, Pakistan) - 30/09/2007: Pakistan: Crisis continues in run-up to presidential elections
Khalid Bhatti, SMP - 21/09/2007: Pakistan: Pakistan on the brink - New introduction to "Marxism in
Today’s World"
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 24/08/2007: Pakistan: New twists and turns in Pakistani politics
Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore - 09/07/2007: Pakistan: Independence - 60 years of shattered dreams
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 26/06/2007: Pakistan: Union activist has suspension withdrawn following protest
campaign
socialistworld.net - 21/05/2007: Pakistan: Violence erupts in Karachi as political polarisation increases
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 03/05/2007: Pakistan: May day 2007 - Workers want fightback by union leaders against
neo-liberal policies of the military
Khalid Bhatti, International secretary, TURCP - 01/05/2007: Pakistan: Musharraf hangs on while poverty and oppression multiplies
Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, London - 31/03/2007: Pakistan: Socialist Movement (CWI Pakistan) prepares for a year of
stormy battles and instability
socialistworld.net - 17/01/2007: Pakistan: Sindh teachers win legal battle against ban on union
Sher Abro, Organiser TURCP (Dadu area), and local teachers’ union leader - 08/01/2007: Pakistan: protest against murder attempt on union rights campaigner
Fazal Abass Shah, Chairman TURCP ((Trade Union Rights Campaign
Pakistan), Monday 8 January 2007 - 01/01/2007: Pakistan: Journalist union and Hawkers union win the important battle
against bosses
Azam , Trade union Rights Campaign (TURCP) Islamabad Organiser and
Hawkers union activist, Islamabad
2006: - 11/12/2006: Pakistan: The veil and Muslim women
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 28/11/2006: Pakistan: Breakthrough first National Convention of Trade Union Rights
Campaign Pakistan (TURCP)
Fazal Abbas Shah and Rukhsana Manzoor, TURCP, Lahore, Pakistan - 20/11/2006: Pakistan: No to the 12 Hour Working Day, No To the Industrial Relations
Ordinance 2002
Fazal Abass Shah, Chairman TURCP, Lahore Pakistan - 23/10/2006: Pakistan: Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) in Sindh rejects
ban on teachers’ organisations.
Sher Muhammad Abro, Organiser TURCP Dadu, Sindh - 20/10/2006: Pakistan: Quake victims face another harsh winter
Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP, CWI Pakistan) and Azad
Qadri, Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) - 19/10/2006: Pakistan: No to the 12 hour day! No to the ban on Trade Unions
Azam Janjuah, Organiser TURCP Islamabad - 12/10/2006: Pakistan: Balakot, one year after the devastating earthquake
Azam Janjua, Organiser Trade Union Rights Campaign, Islamabad - 10/10/2006: Pakistan: One year on from devastating earthquake
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) - 07/09/2006: Pakistan: Successful ‘Campaign against Domestic Violence and
Discriminatory Laws’ meetings
Rukhsana Manzoor, CDVDL Campaign Organiser, and SMP(CWI Pakistan) - 04/09/2006: Pakistan: Violence erupts in Baluchistan Province after killing of
nationalist leader
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement (CWI), Pakistan - 31/08/2006: Pakistan: Sindh police teargas and baton charge protesting teachers
Sher Muhammad Abro, TURCP Sindh, and Sindh Teachers’ Union. Thursday 31
of August 2006 - 31/08/2006: Pakistan: Socialist Movement holds succesful education school
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP-CWI), Lahore - 29/08/2006: Pakistan: TURCP leads struggle against feudal repression and police
atrocities
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, TURCP - 04/07/2006: Pakistan: Struggling against feudalism
Interview with an activist - 26/06/2006: Pakistan: Peasants uprising on military farms
Sadjid Balouch, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) - 23/05/2006: Pakistan: Police brutally attack peaceful workers’ demonstration in
Karachi
Babu Ladhu, Organiser TURCP, Karachi - 22/05/2006: Pakistan: Sacked Postal workers win battle
Chaudhary Shafique, TURCP Organiser, Lahore, Pakistan - 21/05/2006: Pakistan: Thousands of power loom workers show their anger
Malik Muhammad Din Organizer TURCP Faisalabad - 10/04/2006: Pakistan: Socialist Movement (CWI) takes another step forward
socialistworld.net reporters, Pakistan - 30/03/2006: Pakistan: World Social Forum meets in Karachi
CWI reporters in Karachi - 17/03/2006: Pakistan: 200 trade unionists discuss fight against anti-worker policies
Fazal Abbas Shah, Chairman Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) - 08/03/2006: Pakistan: Military regime in crisis, political turmoil continues
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 07/02/2006: Pakistan: Fourteen hundred daily-waged Postal workers sacked
Fazal Abbas Shah, National Chairman TURCP, Lahore, Pakistan - 02/02/2006: Pakistan: TURCP condemns police brutality against teachers demonstration
Asif Ali, TURCP Multan, Pakistan
2005: - 29/10/2005: Pakistan: Local elections expose Musharraf’s sham of democracy
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) - 05/10/2005: Pakistan: After betrayal of Telecoms strike, a new union must be built.
Azad Qadri, National organising secretary, Trades Union Rights Campaign
- Pakistan (TURCP), Rawalpindi - 20/09/2005: Pakistan: Yet another victim of rape fighting for justice
Rukshana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 13/09/2005: Pakistan: Telecomm Action Committee betrays struggle against
privatisation
Pakistan Trade Union Rights Campaign - 29/08/2005: Pakistan: A state at the crossroads
Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore - 25/08/2005: Pakistan: Trade Union Rights Campaign seminar in Karachi
Zubair Rehman, Organiser SMP, Karachi - 26/07/2005: Pakistan: 120 Trade Union activists attend TURCP meeting in Islamabad
Azam Janjuah and Shahid Zaheer, TURCP Islamabad - 11/07/2005: Pakistan: The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms
Azad Qadri and Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan. - 21/06/2005: Pakistan: telecom strike ends
Report compiled by socialistworld.net - 17/06/2005: Pakistan: New pickets at Pakistan embassies across Europe
- 16/06/2005: Pakistan:Telecom strike remains solid as one union leadership betrays
struggle
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan,
Wednesday, 16 June 2005 - 16/06/2005: Pakistan: New pickets at Pakistan embassies across Europe
Manny Thain, Socialist Party, London - 15/06/2005: Pakistan: Government crackdown on telecom strike
socialistworld - 13/06/2005: Pakistan: Over 300 telecommunication workers and trade unionists arrested
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser of the Trade Union Rights Campaign
Pakistan, Monday 13 June 2005 - 11/06/2005: Pakistan: Government starts crackdown against Telecom trade unionists
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan - 08/06/2005: Pakistan: Pakistan Telecommunications headquarters reoccupied
Azam Janjuah, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan - 07/06/2005: pakistan turc-p: Stop Press. Negotiations break down in Pakistan
Telecommunications
socialistworld.net - 06/06/2005: Pakistan: Telecommunications strike shows important lessons for
Pakistani working class
Khalid Bhatti Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP -CWI) - 04/06/2005: Pakistan: Historic Victory for Pakistan Telecommunications workers
Rukhsana Manzoor and Aazam Janjua, Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan - 01/06/2005: Pakistan: "Struggle or death’
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan and Kevin Simpson, CWI - 30/05/2005: Pakistan: STOP PRESS - Telecommunications Trade Unions pull out of
negotiations
Azam Janjuah, organiser, TURC-P Islamabad - 30/05/2005: Pakistan: Solidarity protest with Telecommunications workers in Lahore
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan - 30/05/2005: Pakistan: New website launched for Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan
socialistworld.net - 29/05/2005: Pakistan: Indefinite Strike continues as government prepares for a crack
down
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan - 28/05/2005: Pakistan: Stop Press - Telecom Trade Union leaders taken into custody
for five hours
socialistworld.net - 26/05/2005: Pakistan: Indefinite Telecom strike started, complete closedown observed
all over the country
Rukhsana Manzoor Secretary Workers Education in the Muthida Labour
Federation and TURC-P, Lahore - 26/05/2005: Pakistan: 170 trade unionists reject Pakistan Telecom privatisation
Azam Janjuah and Sardar Tariq, Islamabad - 26/05/2005: Pakistan: Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail
Azad Qadri, Islamabad, and Qadoos Khan, Lahore - 24/05/2005: Pakistan: Workers of the world unite - No to PTCL Privatisation
socialistworld.net - 23/05/2005: Pakistan: Telecoms strike continues despite management manouevres
Azad Qadri and Azam Janjuah, PTURC, Islamabad - 17/05/2005: Pakistan: Telecommunications are not for sale!
Azad Qadri and Azam Junjuah, Socialist Movement, Islamabad - 05/05/2005: Pakistan: Pages from a diary
Peter Taaffe, cwi - 02/05/2005: Pakistan: Socialist Movement organises activity across Pakistan
Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan - 18/04/2005: Pakistan: Mukhtar Mai, a rape victim in search of Justice
Rukhsana Manzoor, Lahore, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) - 17/04/2005: Pakistan: Telecom workers win battle against government.
Azam Janjuah, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Islamabad - 31/03/2005: Pakistan: Musharraf rule shaky as poverty rockets
Peter Taaffe, cwi, Pakistan - 22/03/2005: Pakistan: “End for capitalism demandedâ€
socialistworld.net - 08/02/2005: pakistan: deepening crisis in Baluchistan province
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (cwi), 7 February 2005. - 07/02/2005: Pakistan: SMP organises solidarity demonstration with ZOO Papier
Rukshana Manzoor, MSP, Lahore, 7 February 2005. - 20/01/2005: Pakistan: Populism, revolution and counter-revolution
Peter Taafe, General Secretary, Socialist Party and Khalid Bhatti,
Socialist Movement, Pakistan - 16/01/2005: Pakistan: Political crises and General Musharraf’s ‘democracy’
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (cwi) - 14/01/2005: Pakistan: "Stop privatisation or face a black out"
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan - 12/01/2005: Pakistan: Baluchistan province conflict flares up
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (cwi)
2004: 2001: 1999: - 15/10/1999: Pakistan: No to military rule
CWI statement - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Britain
Chris Thomas, Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - US
Martha Root, (Service Employees International Union Local 285), Labor
Militant - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sri Lanka
Dhamika de Silva and Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sweden
Carolin Evander, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Portugal
Torge, Colectivo "Luta Socialista", CWI Portugal - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Japan
Nahoko Isu, CWI Japan - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - India
With Red Salute, Nirmala Shetti, (Dudiyora Hora’ta) - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Germany
Antje Zander, Socialistiche Alternative - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - CIS
Anna Shvedova, CWI-CIS - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Brazil
Eliana Maciel, Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI Brazil
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