‘Kazakhstan 2012’ opposition leader jailed

Written by CWI Reporters, Moscow Monday, 20 December 2010 16:24

“Physical annihilation” threats against activists – Urgent protest action needed!

The Nazarbayev regime in Kazakhstan is stepping up its terror campaign against opposition activists, despite the fact that Kazakhstan continues to head the OSCE organisation.

Kazakhstan - Vadim Kuramshin freed from prison

Written by Rob Jones, member of Joe Higgins MEP’s visiting delegation to Kazakhstan Tuesday, 07 September 2010 12:49

Arrest of human rights lawyer and campaigner backfires on authorities

At 11.00 am on 7 September, hours after a delegation from the European Parliament United Left Group led by Joe Higgins had left the country, the prison rights campaigner, Vadim Kuramshin, was released from prison in the town of Kokshetau, in the North of Kazakhstan.

Pakistan - Emergency demands massive response

Written by CWI Friday, 03 September 2010 11:58

Workers in Europe donate

[See also TURCP website for eye-wittness reports, appeal, letters and details of how to send donations.]

The government in Pakistan is proving itself less and less effective in the face of what is still a mounting crisis for working and poor people. The efforts of the Socialist Movement of Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) to organise assistance to trade unionists and their families through the Workers’ Relief Committee goes on unabated. At the same time they are demanding that all aid should be under the control of accountable representatives of the workers and poor through committees at all levels.

Kazakhstan - Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit

Written by Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI Kazakhstan) Friday, 03 September 2010 11:53

Urgent protests needed

At nearly midnight (local time) on August 28, at the bus station in Kokchetava in Northern Kazakhstan, a violent attack and arrest were carried out on the human rights defender, Vadim Kuramshina. Vadim was just leaving to meet up with Joe Higgins, Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), arriving on a visit from tomorrow (Monday).

Appeal for workers’ solidarity!

Written by Progressive Workers Federation (PWF) and Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) Monday, 16 August 2010 12:52

We urge all our brothers, sisters and comrades in the international trade union movement to show their solidarity and support to the affected people, especially trade union members, workers and peasants.

We urgently need resources to provide relief to our affected brothers and sisters. Amongst the millions hit by the flooding more than 200 members of the TURCP (Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan) and Progressive Workers Federation and their families have been affected. Their houses, crops and everything else have been wiped out. They need food, clean drinking water, medicines, tents and other daily utilities. We are trying to provide whatever is possible for us to provide to these families. But we urgently need your help, solidarity and support for these people. We request that all trade unions, union branches and workers and members of the trade unions support our campaign. Every penny you donate will be accounted for and reach the affected people.

Syed Fazalabbas
Secretary General of Progressive Workers Federation
Chief organiser United Workers Union

TP: +92 321 426 2167

Malik Muhammad shabir
President, Progressive Workers Federation
Secretary General, PTV central employee union

Khalid Bhatti
Finance secretary, Progressive Workers Federation
National organiser of TURCP

TP: +92 333 433 1755

Rukhsana Manzoor
Finance Secretary, TURCP

Please make your donations to the UK branch of TURCP, who will be dealing with all the international donations.
Please make cheques payable to: TURCP.

For donations
Bank Name: Lloyds TSB

Branch Name: Leytonstone, London E11

Account number: 00574699

Sortcode : 30 95 03

BIG: Loydgb21500

IBAN: GB70 LOYD 3095 0300 5746 99

Pakistan: Unprecedented devastation caused by floods - poor suffer the most

Written by Khalid Bhatti, Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) and General Secretary, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) Monday, 16 August 2010 12:49

14 million people affected, over 1,500 dead, thousands face starvation

According to the UN, 6 million people need urgent aid for survival. They can not survive without much needed relief and aid. The UN is saying that it will launch one of the biggest relief efforts in UN history, in terms of the number of people in need. It targeted about 5 million people after the Indian Ocean tsunami, while the estimated 300,000 homes destroyed in Pakistan rival the numbers seen in Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

Pakistan - The economic impact of devastating floods

Written by Khalid Bhatti and Rukhsana Manzoor, Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) and Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI in Pakistan) Monday, 16 August 2010 12:44

Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most

The full economic costs of the devastation caused by the floods- the worst in many years- in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, South Punjab, parts of Baluchistan and Sindh, will not be known for some time. But they are likely to be substantial, both for the people affected by the deluge and for Pakistan’s cash-starved government.

Unprecedented devastation caused by the floods - poor suffer the most

Appeal for workers' solidarity