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18 trade
unions and political group reject to privatization
of PTCL, Workers assured full support for October
5th demo in Lahore
A Pakistan Telecommunication Workers Solidarity
Multi Party conference was held at Ambassador hotel
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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....read
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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...
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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....
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Feelings of revenge will not end with Osama’s death
The Left view from Pakistan
By:Farooq
Tariq(7\5\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....
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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....
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Policy for home-based Workers
Sought:KARACHI,
April 11: Rights activists at a convention
on Monday demanded that the government formulate a
national policy for home-based workers (HBWs) and
legislate to recognize them as workers....
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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..
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First Annual Convention of Home
Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), Pakistan (11
April 2011, Art Council Auditorium, Karachi) It
is historic event that the Home Based Women Workers
Federation, Pakistan (HBWWF),...
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A malevolent campaign by
Government of Punjab By:
Farooq Tariq(06\04\2011)
Today, most of the Newspapers in Punjab have printed
a front page advertisement of the Health department
of Government of Punjab. It showed...
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First Annual Convention of
Home Based Women Bangle Workers Union in Hyderabad
(HBWBWU):By Zehra
Khan(28\01\2011)
The first annual convention of the
Home Based Women Bangle Workers Union, held on
January 24th 2011 at Press Club in Hyderabad, was
attended by more then 500 union....
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Labour Education Foundation
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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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,...
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Assembly Resolution Empowering Home Based Women Workers
Adopted:
Zehra Akbar Khan(04\11\2010)
The
Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted a
resolution pertaining to the protection of rights
of home-based women workers and recommended..
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Norwegian artists donate 1.48 million rupees
to flood victims:
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 victims in
Pakistan......
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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....
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“Stop Drone Attacks, Stop Religious Fundamentalism”.
Labour
Education Foundation (LEF) and South Asia Alliance for
Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) are jointly organizing a
peace rally “Labour
for Peace”...read
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Pir Sabbaq: not washed away:
Cindy Zahnd(29\09\10)
I am a member of the Labor Relief Committee in Lahore
and visited some of the areas affected by the floods. I
would like to share with you theses portraits....
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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..
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Event: Flood Crisis, an alternate
perspective …On
September 28, 2010 Khalid Mahmood, Director of
Labour Education Foundation
(LEF), and member of
Labour Relief Campaign (LRC) will be visiting
the San Francisco Bay Area to speak on the current
flood crisis, relief...read
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The first month
of Labour Relief Campaign Pakistan: The
Labour Relief Camp first camp was organized in Lahore on
1st August 2010 at Regal Chouck Lahore. Earlier on
25th July 2010, we decided to....
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Cultural life buoy:
A Norwegian cultural campaign for
flood victims:
Fund raising began slowly
but surely picked up in the Cultural life buoy - a
Norwegian cultural campaign to support flood victims in
Pakistan which started on 1st September by
Norwegian-Pakistani actor and Board Member of the
Norwegian Actors’ Equity Association,..
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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...
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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 debts and
post flood scenario....
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Economic Cost of the Flood:Irfan
Mufti(23\08\10)
With monsoonal rains
continuing, the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years
is still
spreading. Pakistani relief organizations and
government.....
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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....
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Sindh Labour Relief Campaign:
By Nasir Mansoor 16\08\2010)we have formed the Sindh Labour Relief Committee (SLRC)
in extended emergency meeting of different...
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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....
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Appeal issued on August 7, 2010
More than 12 million people suffering from floods in
Pakistan:
Please
donate to Labour Relief Campaign to help people of
Pakistan:
Pakistan is facing worst ever floods of its history.
Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in
different parts of the country....
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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
District is quite varied.....
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Army
accused of nepotism in Kalam evacuation operation:
Retired official says Army always helped people in
distress:
August 03, 2010 By Ahmad Noorani
ISLAMABAD: Victims of the worst ever flood of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) history bounded......
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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....
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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME: PAKISTAN: More than one hundred thousand power loom workers are on strike and the government failed to increase the wages according to its... read more |
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Stop repression against struggling power loom workers in Punjab: More than 100,000 workers of power loom in Faisalabad district of Punjab province are on strike from today, July 20, 2010 for their demand of wage increase according to the announcement by.... read more |
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Two Labour Leader Mostansir Randhawa and his Brother Killed In
Faisalabad:
On 6th July while Mustansar was listening to a worker who had not been
paid his wages by a textile boss, an unknown person with a Kalashnikov
entered the front room and fired. Mustansar...
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Appeal issued on August 12, 2010:
It is over 20 million people affected by the flood now:
The....
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Appeal issued on August 7, 2010
More than 12 million people suffering from floods in
Pakistan:
Please
donate to Labour Relief Campaign to help people of
Pakistan:
Pakistan is....
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Flood
Disaster in District Sibi:
District Sibi is the historical place of
Baluchistan. The main.....
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Army
accused of nepotism in Kalam evacuation operation:
Retired official says Army always helped people in
distress:
August 03, 2010 By Ahmad Noorani.
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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....
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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME: PAKISTAN: More... read more |
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Stop repression against struggling power loom workers in Punjab: More than.... read more |
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Two Labour Leader Mostansir Randhawa and his Brother Killed In
Faisalabad:
On 6th July while Mustansar was listening to a worker who..
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A Workers
election Campaign against feudal and capitalists:
On 1st May 2010, over 5000.....read
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100 Years Ago: Women's Day (1910-2010)
Socialist Women Declare a Global Feminist Holiday:
by Megan Cornish(8 Mar,2010)
Global Research, March 8, 2010: In
the process of accomplishing their own liberation...
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Financial Appeal: We
had launched a finance appeal on in mid December 2009 to
raise funds....read
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Appeal
to support families of Comrades died in accident
A brief tribute
organizing home based women workers till last.Four
LEF leaders died in road accident:Najma Khanum, Rehana
Kausar and Abdul Salam Salam along ......
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Straggering 31 Billion Dollar corruption
under Musharaf:
LPP press conference,
Farooq Tariq(23,nov 2009)
Labour Party Pakistan is of the firm...
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Pakistan:
What to do about Religious Fundamentalism?Farooq
Tariq (28 October 2009)
“let’s
deal…...read more |
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Whither Pakistan!:Farooq Sulehria
(26 October 2009)
'Whither Pakistan?'. This is a.....read
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LEF's
Labour Conference: Industry – wise unions suggested: LAHORE, Oct 1: Need for ...
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Myth of a 'legendary banker':
(This article was sent to The News as a rejoinder but
was not run...read
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Villains and clowns dominate
Afghan electoral theatre:
Unlike 2004 , global media are not buzzing...
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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION –
URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM:
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-097-2009-13 August
2009PAKISTAN: A human rights...read
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Why Tariq Mehmood was arrested in Gojra?
:On 9th August 2009, Tariq Mehmood, a...read
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Please
Protest: Interwood Furniture Company's brutal actions
against trade union:
Today,
23rd May, few of the Interwood Furniture
Compan...
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Union busting at Inter Wood
Furniture Factory; Union members on hunger strike in Lahore:
In a
recent move, the notorious bosses of Inter Wood...
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Military Operation Cannot Eliminate Taliban:
At the time when President Zardari was on US visit....read
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Relief Camp set up at Regal
Chouck Lahore: Several social and labour organization have
set...read
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Hoisting red flag amid green shadows,Peasant
movement going from strength to strength:
By: Farooq Tariq
Pakistan: What to do about Religious
Fundamentalism?
By:
Farooq Tariq
Whither Pakistan!
Farooq Sulehria
All Roads to Long March
BY: FAROOQ TARIQ
A government in pandemonium
BY: FAROOQ TARIQ
450 killed in 50 US attacks
BY: FAROOQ SULEHRIA
US WAR ON PAKISTAN CONTINUES
BY: FAROOQ SULEHRIA
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