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Protest camp by telecommunication workers in Lahore
BY:Farooq Tariq (
5\08\2011)
On 5th August, over 400 trade unions and
political activists came to GPO Chouck in solidarity
with the protesting Telecommunication workers. The call
was made by National Trade Union Federation.....
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Learning from Muslim
Fundamentalists
By: Farooq Tariq
(24\07\2011)
32 years old Norwegian, Anders Behring Breivik, who
killed 92 on 22nd July 2011 in Oslo has used
similar techniques in bomb blast and shooting of the
children from his most hatred enemy, the Muslim
fundamentalist...
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MQM PPP alliance once again: no
dignity in politics
By: Farooq Tariq (19\07\2011)
Perhaps never in history of political
alliances, such U turns would have been witnessed as we
see now with MQM returning to the government in Sindh.
The joining of MQM once again into the alliance makes
politics of the....
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Police blockade village on behalf of Rana Iqbal, the
speaker of Punjab assembly, Injured women wait medical
treatment, police arresting any one leaving the village:
By: Farooq Tariq(7\05\2011)
On 3rd May
at 4pm Rana Mujib, son of Rana Mohammed Iqbal, the
speaker of Punjab Assembly, entered a village Chah
Dhaban Wala near Bhai Phero in Tehsil Patoki to occupy
12 acres of land along with dozens of gangsters....
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Feelings of revenge will not end with Osama’s death, The
Left view from Pakistan:
By: Farooq
Tariq(7\05\2011) In the first four days after
Osama Bin Laden’s assassination, the mass reaction in
Pakistan is very mixed. In Punjab there is a general
sympathy towards Asama, however not many.....
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May Day 2011: A
minimum wage of Rupees 15000 for eight hours a day:
By; Farooq Tariq(29\04\2011)
Since 1886 May Day has been the workers’ day across the
globe “It is Resolved ... that eight hours shall
constitute a legal day's labor from and after May 1,
1886” .The
origin of May Day is....
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Media predilections, the case
of MQM and AMP rallies:
By: Farooq Tariq(13\04\2011)
There were two public rallies this month in Punjab. In
both rallies, the numbers of participants were nearly
equal. In both cases, over 10,000 participated in each
of the rallies, One was organized by MQM in Lahore on 10th April...
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Top judges anti workers attitude: Now face the music of
workers anger on 1st March, Labour Party Pakistan to
organize a day of protest:
By: Farooq Tariq (26\02\2010)
There are growing trends among the higher courts of
Pakistan to show their anti workers anger whenever there
is a case being heard on the issue of strikes,
demonstrations, rallies and other means of peaceful
protests. There is a different attitude...
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The
state of poverty and food sovereignty in South Asia:
(07\02\2011)
By: Farooq
Tariq
(The paper was read at
the South Asian parliamentary round table Caucus held in
Islamabad in 23-24th January 2011)
The Parliamentary Round
Table Caucus on food sovereignty in cooperation with
the South.....
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Formation
of South Asian Parliamentary Forum On food sovereignty,
Two days parliamentary conference demand land rights to
the tillers:
(24\01\2011)
Two days round table caucus attend by
parliamentarian and civil society representatives from
five countries namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India,
Pakistan and Nepal. The two day caucus was organized
by...
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Labour Education Foundation (LEF)
honoured with Silver Rose Award:
We are happy to share the news that Labour Education
Foundation (LEF) has been honoured with an international
award called the SILVER ROSE AWARD in international....
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More than 500 participated in
LPP Meeting swat KPK:
By Farooq Ahmad(06\01\2011)
A public meeting at Chaprial in Swat valley organized
by Labour Party Pakistan Pukhtoon Khawa was attended by
over 500. This was the first political public gathering
in this area after a....
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There is
no going back: Labour Party Pakistan stoutly condemns
the brutal murder of Salman Taseer:
By Farooq Tariq(04\01\2011)
Labour Party Pakistan stoutly condemns
the brutal murder of Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab
killed today by a security guard. We believe that it is
not an......
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Building progressive politics in Swat:
By the end of 2010, nearly 2000 have joined Labour Party
Pakistan (LPP) in Swat Valley alone during a membership
drive campaign launched by LPP Khaiber Pukhtoon Khawa (KP).
Among them are over 350...
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Telecommunication workers solidarity multi party
conference Lahore:
By Farooq Tariq (
26\11\2010)
Over 40 trade unions, social movements and political
parties met here in Lahore on 25th November in a PTCL
workers solidarity multi party conference......
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Telecom unions under
attack in Pakistan:
By
Farooq Tariq(11\11\2010)
Following a strike at Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL)
that was brutally suppressed by the government, a
wholesale witch hunt of union activists is taking
place...
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Norwegian artists donate 1.48 million rupees
to flood victims:
Cultural Life Buoy Campaign to raise
funds concluded in Norway:
Press Release – Lahore (26\10\2010)
Several nationally known television and theater artists
from Norway have collected rupees 1,480,135 in a bid to
help the flood....
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Farooq
Tariq: “The floods have revealed the real nature of
poverty in Pakistan” 22
October by Stéphanie Jacquemont:
An interview with Farooq
Tariq, member of CADTM Pakistan, Labour Relief Campaign
(LRC) and spokesperson for Labour Party Pakistan (LPP
)-....
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Shout Out For Pakistan: Cancel the debts:
Farooq
Tariq (14\10\10)
Over 100,000
leaflets are being distributed by a team of motivated 16
young activists in Lahore on Tangas (horse ridden
carts). Today is the...
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Four Days of
activism on
Global
Week of Action vs Debt:
October 14 will be the “Shout out for Pakistan Day” :The
Tanga activism:
Labour Relief Campaign is organizing four days of
activism in Lahore in association with Oxfam....
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Lahore
rally against foreign debts:
Farooq
Tariq (19\09\2010)
We had a very vibrant rally with a lot of slogans and
with full enthusiasm. The rally was...
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Event: Flood Crisis, an alternate
perspective …On
September 28, 2020 Khalid Mahmood, Director of
Labour Education Foundation
(LEF), and member of
Labour Relief Campaign (LRC)...
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Foreign debt: The only
way out:
There are spaces in international laws that can be
invoked as legal justification to demand cancellation of
debt By Abdul Khaliq(14\09\2010)
Pakistan is facing the worst-ever natural disaster of...read
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Political parties demand debt cancellation, resolve to
launch mass movement to refuse debt:Multi
Party Conference against debt repayments:A
Multiple Party Conference in Lahore decided to campaign
against servicing to the masses and organize three
rallies in...
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Multi
Party Conference against debt repayments:(26\08\10):Labour
Relief Campaign has called a multi party conference on
Sunday 29th August in Lahore. The conference
will discuss the issue of repayments of the....
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It is
over 20 million people affected by the flood now:
By Farooq
Tariq(19\08\2010):The
flood is still on dangerous levels in several parts of
Pakistan. The numbers of people effected by the flood
have crossed 20....read
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Pakistan must refuse debt
repayments, divert amount for relief & rehabilitation of
flood-hit communities:
By Abdul Khaliq (13\08\2010)Pakistan
must refuse to pay the foreign debts and divert the
amount into the relief and rehabilitation of the flood
affectees. It is high....
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Sindh Labour Relief Campaign:
we have formed the Sindh Labour Relief Committee (SLRC)
in extended emergency meeting of different organization
at.....
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Appeal issued on August 12, 2010:
It is over 20 million people
affected by the flood now:
The flood is still on dangerous levels in
several parts of Pakistan. The numbers of people
effected by the flood have crossed 20 million...
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Appeal issued on August 7, 2020
More than 12 million people suffering from floods in
Pakistan:
Please donate to Labour Relief Campaign to help people
of Pakistan is facing worst ever floods of its history.
Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in
different parts of the country since last three.....
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Flood Disaster in District Sibi:
District Sibi is the historical place of
Baluchistan. The main mountains range is Zen, Bhambhore
and Dungaan. The climatic and topography of Sibi....
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Labour Party Pakistan – Urgent
Appeal Baluchistan:
Qalandar Memon (25th July 2010)
Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in
different parts of Baluchistan over the few days. Water
levies broke leaving the...read
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The strike of power looms workers in Faisalabad enters
the seventh day:
Farooq Tariq (27\07\2010)
All factories are closed. Today on 27th July, women
workers demonstrated in front of
the district administration office...read
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The first victory:
By
Farooq Tariq(23\07\2010)This afternoon, after 17 days of strike by over 20,000
power looms workers in the Jhang district, the bosses
agreed to meet the...
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Thousands attends peasant
rally:
A three months notice have been given to
Punjab government to decide the fate of the 68000 of
agriculture land owned by Punjab...read
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10 Years of Tenants struggle in Punjab:Farooq Tariq(28\06\2010)
Anjaman Mozareen Punjab is organizing a mass peasants
rally on 29 June at Okara on the eve of 10 years of...
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A look at
the experience of the LPP and the Pakistani Left:ROUSSET
Pierre(1
April 2010)
In the course of a two-week stay in
Pakistan, I was able to take part, on .....
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COMMENT: Mazhar Ali
Khan’s legacy: Viewpoint
—Dr Mohammad Taqi:
The state takeover of the PPL publications, their
subsequent nationalisation and the eventual formation of
the...
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An election we never expected
to win:By: Farooq Tariq (19\05\2010 )
:This was a bye election that none of us in the Pakistan
Labour Party ever expected to win. Still.....
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A Workers
election Campaign against feudal and capitalists:
On 1st May 2010, over 5000 industrial workers
participated in a public meeting at Suddar in
Faisalabad.....
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Greeting May
Day: Farooq
Sulehria(1st may 2010)The
May Day is venerated in summing up the victories
attended by the working...
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17 April: international day of peasants, AMP to
demonstrate in Lahore:
Anjaman Mozareen Punjab (Tenant
Association Punjab) will organize a protest
demonstration in Lahore on....
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COUP AND COUNTER
- COUP, REVOLUTION !
By Eva Golinger Sunday, April 11,
2010
VENEZUELA COMMEMORATED THE EIGHTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF
THE COUP D’ETAT...
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Help us to
put forward a credible alternative to the politics of
the rich :An
Appeal to all friends in Social and political circles: On
10 April 2010, Mian Abdul Qayum, a labour leader in
Faisalabad..read more |
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Labour
Party Pakistan to fight bye election in Faisalabad:
Labour Party
Pakistan has decided to contest the bye election of
Punjab Assembly constituency PP 63. Mian Abdul...read
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The emergence of New Left
in PakistanBy:
by Farooq Tariq
The four articles on the different aspects of the Left
in Pakistan appearing on editorial pages of Daily Dawn
is generating a lot of...read
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Building the Labour Party Pakistan:By
Farooq Tariq(21
Jan, 2010)The
political perspectives of the LPP have been put to the
test several times in a rapidly changing political
situation....
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Building progressive space: we need your support now
Labour Party Pakistan holding its fifth
congress on 27-29 January 2010.On
29th January
an international workers peasant’s...
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