Privatisation
Pakistan: WAPDA Referendum - Irreconcilable struggle against Privatization Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 10:40

The WAPDA workers union, the largest organized force in Pakistan is have a referendum in two days. The comrades of the PTUDC are intervening in the referendum with a revolutionary programme. Here we provide our readers with the English translation of their main leaflet. WAPDA  - Water & Power Distribution Authority – is a key department in Pakistan, responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of Power in whole country.
 
Pakistan: PTUDC meeting in Multan Print E-mail
Written by Aurangzaib Khan   
Tuesday, 08 February 2011 10:40
The Multan Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign organized a meeting on Sunday 30 January, in Multan. The topic was “privatization, price hike & Workers rally on 13th March”.
 
Workers from Pakistan Railways in Peshwar against privatisation Print E-mail
Written by Comrade Aamir Hashmi President Railway Labour Union Peshawar Division   
Thursday, 27 January 2011 08:41
19 January 2011: On 19th January hundreds of workers from Pakistan Railways Labour Union Peshawar Division staged a protest demonstration in front of Cantonment Railway Station against the proposed privatization of railways.
 
Pakistan: Postal Workers hold huge nationwide protests against privatisation Print E-mail
Written by Asad ullah Khan   
Monday, 10 January 2011 05:10
On the call for anti-privatisation protests by the Postal Action Committee huge protests and demonstrations were held in many cities of Pakistan on 4th January.
 
PTUDC Conference against privatisation in Karachi Print E-mail
Written by Haseeb Ahmed   
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 06:28
The Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign held a conference against privatisation on 31 May at the Karachi Press Club. Workers and trade union leaders who had come from industrial areas of Karachi and other cities of Sindh attended the conference in big numbers.
 
Pakistan: War against privatisation intensifies Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC Multan   
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 10:12
The PPP government in Pakistan has just announced a programme of sweeping privatisation, involving 22 publicly owned companies and services, together with other anti-working class policies. The PTUDC met in Multan, raising the need to unite the workers against these attacks.
 
PTUDC Protests against Ban on Sindh Teachers Union across Pakistan Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Friday, 18 August 2006 09:08
The ban on the Sindh Teachers Union by the Musharraf government under the draconian law of IRO 2002 was condemned all over the country on 14th August, the Independence Day of Pakistan. The Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign mobilised to protest against this measure.
 
Onslaught against privatisation of Pakistan Steel in the National Assembly Print E-mail
Written by Adam Pal   
Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:00
The struggle against privatisation is heating up in Pakistan. Today, all the major papers contained articles and reports on Comrade Manzoor’s magnificent intervention in the National Assembly against the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills.
 
MNA Manzoor Ahmed intervenes in parliament against privatisation Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Thursday, 06 April 2006 00:00
Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, Member of the Pakistan National Assembly, along with several other MNAs has submitted two motions against the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL). We publish the following report from DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English daily newspaper.
 
Demonstration against the privatisation of Pak-Saudi Fertilisers Print E-mail
Written by Sadaf Zahra   
Wednesday, 05 April 2006 07:24
The PTUDC Rawalpindi organised a demonstration to protest against the scandalous privatisation of the Pak-Saudi Fertiliser plant.
 
War against the privatisation of WAPDA (Water And Power Development Authority) Pakistan Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Wednesday, 05 April 2006 00:00
War against the privatisation of WAPDA (Water And Power Development Authority) Pakistan After the PTCL workforce, now it is the workers of WAPDA who are faced with the prospect of privatisation. Such a measure would be detrimental to the interests not only of the WAPDA workers but of all the workers and poor of Pakistan. The PTCL workers put up a brave fight but were let down by the union leaders. Let this not happen again!
 
Karachi Steel: War Against Privatisation Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Thursday, 01 December 2005 00:00
The regime in Pakistan is indeed a callous one. Not only did it show little concern for the hundreds of thousands hit by the quake in Kashmir and Northern Pakistan, now it wants to exploit this moment of bewilderment among the masses to speed up the process of privatization, starting with the Karachi Steel Mills. The PTUDC is mobilizing, starting with a conference of union and workers delegates this Saturday in Karachi.
 
"Without changing the whole system we cannot get rid of privatisation, downsizing, deregulation, pov Print E-mail
Written by PTUDC   
Friday, 22 November 2002 00:00
The Pakistan Trade Union Defense Campaign executive body met in Lahore on Sunday November 17 in Lahore. The executive unanimously elected Comrade Manzoor Ahmed [Member National Assembly of Pakistan and editor fortnightly magazine Class Struggle] as the president of PTUDC. The slate of other office bearers was voted upon and elected with a majority.
 


The Struggle continues!