The kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the foremost allies of the USA in the Middle East, brutally exploits its migrant workers. The visa regime keeps the workers in a state of permanent dependency on their employers and abuses are common. At the other end of the spectrum members of the royal family, including the king himself, are among the richest people in the world with billions of dollars in wealth. This contradiction has revolutionary implications.

On the morning of Monday April 22, police attacked the protest camp of Unilever workers outside factory gate in Rahim Yar Khan. Nine were arrested and tortured. They were protesting for their reinstatement for last nine days. Actually this struggle started few years back.

Pakistan Post Office Directorate General Employees Union election were held on 11 March 2013. The revolutionary group of PTUDC comrades won a landslide victory and got 70% of the votes.

Unilever is extracting huge profits in Pakistan through brutal exploitation of workers. Most of the products of Unilever are now being manufactured through third party contracts in which workers are given starving wages and no other benefits at all.

Young Doctors in Punjab achieved victory on Wednesday 7 November after a struggle that lasted over two years. More than 22,000 young doctors in Punjab were united in their demands for better wages and service structure under the banner of a new organisation called Young Doctors Association (YDA).

Greg Oxley is leading member of Communist Party of France, who has been fighting against capitalism in Europe since last three decades. He along with comrade Raphael (Youth Wing of Communist party of France) visited Pakistan from 11^th to 23^rd of October 2012. Both of them visited different cities and met workers and youth. Comrade Greg Oxley delivered lectures in Islamabad, Faisalabad and Karachi.

On September 30^th a workers’ school was organized in Multan Law College by Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign.

Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign continues to  organize condolence references and protest meetings in various cities of Pakistan to condemn the deaths of more than 300 workers, killed in factory fires in Karachi and Lahore on September 11 2012.

Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign is organizing condolence references and  protests in various cities of Pakistan to condemn this barbarity which happened due to decaying capitalist system in Pakistan.

In the morning of 14 September more than fifty labor and trade union leaders from Karachi Site Area attended a meeting in order to form a strategy after tragic incident of Baldia Town Karachi in which 289 workers (men, women and children) were burnt alive when a garment factory caught fire.

The horrific factory fire at a Karachi garments and clothing enterprise where 289 workers, men, women and children, perished and hundreds were injured with severe burn wounds in an inferno in a caged factory with sealed gates is not an exception but the norm for the proletariat in Pakistan. It lays bare the conditions in which they are forced to work.

State in Pakistan is on the verge of collapse and basic infrastructure is crumbling. Pakistan Post is a key institution on which a lot still depends in daily routines of common people. But this institution is suffering heavily due to irresponsible behaviour of Ministry of Postal and its bureaucracy.

On 5 April nearly 150 goons of pocket union, which is also CBA, attacked the sit in of dismissed workers with iron rods, hockeys and bats.

Unilever in Pakistan is continuously taking anti workers and anti-law steps in order to increase its exploitation rate of profit as much as possible. Court orders and decisions are being crush under the boots while national and international labor laws are being violated openly.

On 28th March on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists scores of journalists  staged a protest demonstration in front of Multan PressClub here on Wednesday to press their demand for implementation of wage board award.

Anti working class character of Pakistani State once again came to the front when a peaceful protest of nurses in Karachi was crushed by brutal police oppression.

A convention organized by ‘save rail alliance’ in Lahore was attended by thousands of workers belonging to various trade unions from all over the country.

In the evening of 11 March a huge rally against privatization, load-shedding, price hike and unemployment was organized by Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign at Mall Road Lahore.

On February 24^th a seminar was organized in Rawalpindi by Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign in order to celebrate the coming women day. Topic of seminar was “Problems of working women and their solutions”.

"Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful"

The workers of federal hospital are protesting against the new service structure (CHPS) which is a form of privatization. The hospitals include Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences PIMS, Poly Clinic Hospital and National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.

On 17^th January, the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign organized a historic Labour convention and a protest rally in Islamabad. More than 300 trade union activists, students, political workers, women and youth from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Attock, Taxila-Wah, Abbottabad and surrounding areas participated in the convention.

A marvellous rally attended by thousands of workers was organized by Mazdoor Action Committee (Workers’ Action Committee) against unannounced load shedding of natural gas and electricity.

On November 1^st a rally and procession was organized by "Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union (PWHECLU)" CBA attended by thousands of workers from Rawalpinidi.

On November 4, Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign organized solidarity camps at Chowngi No. 6 Chowk, Bosen Road, Multan and University Chowk Bahawalpur. The camps continued throughout the day and were attended by large number of youngsters, workers, students, political and trade union leaders and women.

Working class is suffering most in this epoch of economic and political crisis. The courageous workers who raise voice for their rights are victimized particularly by the goons of capitalists and sacked from the job most of the times.

The national leadership of the PTUDC including Chairman Riaz Hussain Baloch, Vice Chairman Qamar Uz Zaman Khan, General Secretary Nazar Mengal and Information Secretary Paras Jan embarked on a visit across the country for the unity of the working class. Many activities including labour conferences, seminars on workers’s issues, protest rallies, meetings with delegations of workers and others were held in different cities.

The existence of a steel producing giant in a backward country like Pakistan is nothing less than a miracle. The idea of setting up Pakistan Steel was put forward during the era of Ayub Khan (1958-1969) but the US like many other advanced capitalist countries refused to give any kind of assistance, as the creation of any such kind of basic industry in an underdeveloped country was considered a threat to their own exploitative imperialist agendas.

Trade Unions, workers, students and left organizations in Lahore started #occupy Lahore movement at Nasir Bagh inspired by the #Occupy Wall Street movement in United States.

Unilever Management has received many awards internationally for safety in their factories, especially the management are always touting the idea that safety at their R.Y.Khan plant is the best in the world. This, however, is a big lie like so many others told by capitalists around the world. In 2011 alone there were two major accidents at R.Y.Khan. In one accident three fingers of a worker were cut in a machine.

Nestle Management in Kabirwala, near Khanewal, have attacked the workers for raising their voice against tyranny. The official of the Police, Judiciary and Local Administration are slavishly following the orders of their capitalist masters.

The management of Coca Cola is using anti-labour measures and forces of repression to attack the rights of the workers in its Gujranwala plant. The Employees Workers Union which is representing the workers is under attack because it is fighting for the rights of workers.

The workers at the Nestle plant in Kabirwala are waging a relentless struggle against brutal management which has the support of the local administration, and services of hired goons and yellow press journalists along with huge amounts of money. The workers only have one weapon which is their unity!

The struggle of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation workers is continuing amid severe repression on the part of management and the government. On June 22 goons used by KESC management together with a neo-fascist organization in Karachi attacked the rally of KESC workers in Nazimabad with firearms in which three workers were seriously injured.

After years of suffering anti-trade union measures at the hands of Coca Cola management the workers in Pakistan have had enough and are organising a fightback, as this report we have received from the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign outlines.

On 2nd June 2011, railway workers of the shed department in Multan and many other cities of Pakistan arranged protests for a rise in salaries, T.A [Technical Allowance] & D.A [Daily Allowance] payments, holiday allowances, shift allowances and scale up in gradation.

Workers of Karachi Electric Supply Company have been waging a struggle for many months now. The corrupt management of the company have waged a war against these workers, supported by the government. At the same time, the people of Karachi continue to suffer from long power cuts and hike in electricity tariff on regular basis. Today on 24^th May nearly 10,000 workers came to attend the sit in.

May Day was celebrated across Pakistan with revolutionary fervor. PTUDC held activities in more than 50 cities across the country in which workers from different sectors participated. Students and Unemployed Youth also attended these activities in big numbers. A special PTUDC poster was published at this occasion which was pasted around the industrial areas and workers’ colonies in the whole country.

The Young Doctor’s Association (YDA) of Punjab has announced they are starting a protest movement and taking strike action once again from May 11 in defence of their demands. Earlier the YDA Punjab had led a strike which lasted for around one and a half months and was called off on the promise made by the Punjab Chief Minister that all their demands would be met.

The manoeuvres of the Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan around the issue of “blasphemy” have made worldwide headlines. What gets less publicity is the militant class struggle of Pakistani workers. One such struggle is that of the workers at the Karachi Electric Supply Company, who have fought and defeated the bosses plans to forcibly retire 4500 workers.

Hunger strike till death of 5 workers started on July 22, 2010. Call for urgent help for camp, in front of Merck Serono Factory Gate, 7 Jail Road, Quetta.